Philosophy of science books

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Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought, The: Seven Studies

Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought,...

Author: Fred Wilson
ISBN: 9781282028616
Format: Electronic book text
$310.46

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Aristotelian notions of logic and causation came under serious...  Read More >>

The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life

The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell...

Author: Werner R Loewenstein
ISBN: 9781280529702
Format: Electronic book text
$47.39

A world-renowned biologist takes readers to the forefront of science as he proposes a revolutionary way of thinking...  Read More >>

Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding

Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding...

Author: Lacey Hugh
ISBN: 9781280140563
Format: Electronic book text
$351.12

The idea that science is value free has been challenged over the years by a number of different sides, including:...  Read More >>

Creativity in Science

Creativity in Science

Author: Antonino Zichichi
ISBN: 9781299614642
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

At the 6th International Zermatt Symposium, Prof Antonino Zichichi of the World Federation of Scientists presented...  Read More >>

The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem

The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical...

Author: Mark Steiner
ISBN: 9780674040977
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This text analyzes the different ways mathematics is applicable in the physical sciences, and presents a novel thesis...  Read More >>

The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation

The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation

Author: Clara Pinto-Correia ,  Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780226669540
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Hailed by the Greeks as ""the mystery of mysteries"", the perplexing question of where babies come from, has puzzled...  Read More >>

Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science

Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science

Author: E. D. Klemke ,  Robert Hollinger
ISBN: 9781573922401
Format: Paperback
$53.99

Covers topics such as feminism and the sciences, the effects of science on society, the natural versus the social...  Read More >>

The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction

The Scientific Imagination: With a New Introduction...

Author: Gerald Holton
ISBN: 9780674794887
Format: Paperback
$93.95

Drawing on accounts from notebooks/interviews/correspondence of 20th-century scientists, the text shows how the...  Read More >>

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context: The...

Author: Dwight Atkinson
ISBN: 9780805820867
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Describes changing language & rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. Of interest...  Read More >>

The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: With a New Introduction

The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: With a...

Author: Gerald Holton
ISBN: 9780674005303
Format: Paperback
$72.95

How did Einstein’s ideas shape the imaginations of 20th-century artists and writers? Are there national differences...  Read More >>

Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science

Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science...

Author: James Gilbert
ISBN: 9780226293219
Format: Paperback
$52.95

An examination of the confrontation between modern science and religion as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes...  Read More >>

Scientific Idealism: Or Matter and Force and Their Relation to Life and Consciousness

Scientific Idealism: Or Matter and Force and Their Relation...

Author: William Kingsland
ISBN: 9780766102965
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Contents: What is Truth? Matter and Substance; The Great and the Small; Force, Motion, Energy; Interrelation of...  Read More >>

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context: The...

Author: Dwight Atkinson
ISBN: 9780805820850
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Describes changing language & rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. Of interest...  Read More >>

Evolutionary Systems: Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization

Evolutionary Systems: Biological and Epistemological...

Author: Fons J. R. van de Vijver ,  Stanley N. Salthe
ISBN: 9780792352600
Format: Hardback
$485.76

The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in...  Read More >>

The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Author: Dennis Dieks ,  Pieter E. Vermaas
ISBN: 9780792352075
Format: Hardback
$504.24

According to the modal interpretation, the standard mathematical framework of quantum mechanics specifies the physical...  Read More >>

Lucrèce et les sciences de la vie

Lucrèce et les sciences de la vie

Author: P.H. Schrijvers
ISBN: 9789004102309
Format: Hardback
$422.40

This collection of 11 studies provides a new discussion of Lucretius' History of the Human Mankind and of other...  Read More >>

Origins Linking Science and Scripture

Origins Linking Science and Scripture

Author: Ariel Roth
ISBN: 9780828013284
Format: Paperback
$79.17

If you accept the biblical account of origins, do you have to reject science? Ariel Roth argues that taken together,...  Read More >>

The Science of God: Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom

The Science of God: Convergence of Scientific and Biblical...

Author: Gerald L. Schroeder
ISBN: 9780767903035
Format: Paperback
$39.47

A book which, through an examination of issues such as free will, the origin of life and the origin of man, discusses...  Read More >>

Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truth in the Twenty-first Century

Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truth in the...

Author: Michael Fortun ,  Herbert J. Bernstein
ISBN: 9781887178488
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Michael Fortun and Herbert J. Bernstein explore the processes of science and the interacting forces that determine...  Read More >>

Constructing the Beginning: Discourses of Creation Science

Constructing the Beginning: Discourses of Creation Science...

Author: Simon Locke
ISBN: 9780805823479
Format: Paperback
$39.99

An analysis of creation science discourse, including theoretical discussion and the role of science in society....  Read More >>

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