Philosophy of science books

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Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy

Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature...

Author: Robert Almeder
ISBN: 9780812693805
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Scientific naturalism, or scientism, is the theory that science has all the answers. This book argues that not all...  Read More >>

Cosmos, Bios, Theos: "Scientists Reflect on Science, Religion and the Origins of the Universe, Life and ""Homo Sapiens"""

Cosmos, Bios, Theos: "Scientists Reflect on Science,...

Author: Henry Margenau ,  Roy Abraham Varghese
ISBN: 9780812691863
Format: Paperback
$95.04

A portfolio of opinions and arguments from 60 scientists, including 24 Nobel Prize winners, on the relationship...  Read More >>

Realism Rescued: How Scientific Progress Is Possible

Realism Rescued: How Scientific Progress Is Possible...

Author: Jerrold Aronson ,  Eileen Cornell Way
ISBN: 9780812692891
Format: Paperback
$34.99

This text presents a defence of scientific realism against sceptical and positivist attacks. It relies on the importance...  Read More >>

The Science Studies Reader

The Science Studies Reader

Author: Mario Biagioli
ISBN: 9780415918671
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The Science Studies Reader pulls together the foundational essays in Science Studies by the field's key scholars,...  Read More >>

Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge

Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge...

Author: Susantha Goonatilake
ISBN: 9780253211828
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Presents details of contributions from South Asian medicine, mathematics, and psychology and explores how South...  Read More >>

Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line

Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line...

Author: Thomas F. Gieryn
ISBN: 9780226292625
Format: Paperback
$72.95

An investigation of the boundaries of science. Gieryn argues that when scientific claims reach courtrooms, boardrooms...  Read More >>

Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line

Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line...

Author: Thomas F. Gieryn
ISBN: 9780226292618
Format: Hardback
$198.00

An investigation of the boundaries of science. Gieryn argues that when scientific claims reach courtrooms, boardrooms...  Read More >>

The Science Studies Reader

The Science Studies Reader

Author: Mario Biagioli
ISBN: 9780415918688
Format: Paperback
$145.00

The Science Studies Reader pulls together the foundational essays in Science Studies by the field's key scholars,...  Read More >>

Novum Organum

Novum Organum

Author: Francis Bacon ,  Peter Urbach
ISBN: 9780812692457
Format: Paperback
$72.99

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Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1901-1910

Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical...

Author: Richard Hull
ISBN: 9780792353393
Format: Hardback
$525.36

This volume traces the development and emergence of the strands of distinctively American philosophy during the...  Read More >>

Cosmic Puberty

Cosmic Puberty

Author: Neil English
ISBN: 9780718829841
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science

The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science

Author: Osman Bakar
ISBN: 9780946621835
Format: Paperback
$43.96

The essays presented in 'The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science' discuss the principles behind the different...  Read More >>

Foresight and Knowledge

Foresight and Knowledge

Author: Yves R. Simon ,  Anthony O. Somin
ISBN: 9780823216222
Format: Paperback
$63.95

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Synchronicity, Science, and Soulmaking: Understanding Jungian Syncronicity Through Physics, Buddhism, and Philosphy

Synchronicity, Science, and Soulmaking: Understanding...

Author: Victor Mansfield
ISBN: 9780812693041
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The central theme of this work is Jung's concept of synchronicity. This exploration of the scientific basis for...  Read More >>

The Practices of Human Genetics

The Practices of Human Genetics

Author: Michael Fortun ,  E. Mendelsohn
ISBN: 9780792353331
Format: Hardback
$578.16

The growth of knowledge and practice in human and medical genetics raises significant questions about the social...  Read More >>

Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle: Austro-Polish Connections in Logical Empiricism

Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle: Austro-Polish Connections...

Author: Jan Wolenski ,  Eckehart Köhler
ISBN: 9780792355380
Format: Hardback
$443.52

The larger part of Yearbook 6 of the Institute Vienna Circle constitutes the proceedings of a symposium on Alfred...  Read More >>

Shapes of Forms: From Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology to Ontology and Mathematics

Shapes of Forms: From Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology...

Author: L. Albertazzi
ISBN: 9780792352464
Format: Hardback
$604.56

impossible triangle, after apprehension of the perceptively given mode of being of that 'object', the visual system...  Read More >>

Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon

Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Workshop...

Author: Maria Carla Galavotti ,  A. Pagnini
ISBN: 9780792354970
Format: Hardback
$385.44

The essays in this volume cover a wide array of topics related to the work of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon. Some...  Read More >>

Reconstruction of Mature Theory Change: A Theory-Change Model

Reconstruction of Mature Theory Change: A Theory-Change...

Author: Rinat M Nugayev
ISBN: 9780820436272
Format: Paperback
$100.19

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Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics

Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in...

Author: Elena Castellani
ISBN: 9780691017259
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life

Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life...

Author: Owen Flanagan (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780195126525
Format: Paperback
$91.95

A collection of essays exploring topics such as a scientific explanation of consciousness, the moral socialization...  Read More >>

Reflections on a Theory of Organisms

Reflections on a Theory of Organisms

Author: Walter M. Elsasser ,  Harry Rubin
ISBN: 9780801859700
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Like the physicist who works within the bounds of an unfathomable universe, Elsasser argues, the biologist must...  Read More >>

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