Philosophy of science books

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The Impact of Chaos on Science and Society: Proceedings of 1st UNU International Seminar on the Frontiers of Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, 15-17 April 1991

The Impact of Chaos on Science and Society: Proceedings...

Author: Celso Grebogi ,  James A. Yorke
ISBN: 9789280808827
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Presents a lively and stimulating international, interdisciplinary exchange of experiences and ideas on chaos phenomena....  Read More >>

Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God

Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and...

Author: A. Driessen ,  Antoine Suarez
ISBN: 9780792343066
Format: Hardback
$388.08

: - the Center for Quantum Philosophy, - the Wealth Creation and Sustainable Development Group, - the Neural Science...  Read More >>

Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective

Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective

Author: Robert Ulanowicz
ISBN: 9780231108294
Format: Paperback
$65.95

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Appearance and Reality

Appearance and Reality

Author: Kosso
ISBN: 9780195115154
Format: Paperback
$99.95

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Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective

Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective

Author: Robert Ulanowicz
ISBN: 9780231108287
Format: Hardback
$215.95

Presents a paradigm to measure the developmental status of various living communities. This book aims to set forth...  Read More >>

Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato

Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato

Author: Francis M. Cornford ,  F.M. Cornford
ISBN: 9780872203877
Format: Hardback
$121.59

A work on the Timaeus that takes Plato's Cosmology as starting point.  Read More >>

Statistics And Truth: Putting Chance To Work (2nd Edition)

Statistics And Truth: Putting Chance To Work (2nd Edition)...

Author: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (Pennsylvania State Univ, Usa)
ISBN: 9789810231118
Format: Hardback
$113.52

Discusses the philosophical and methodological aspects of information technology, collection and analysis of data...  Read More >>

Elemente der Philosophie Newtons. Verteidigung des Newtonianismus. Die Metaphysik des Neuton

Elemente der Philosophie Newtons. Verteidigung des Newtonianismus....

Author: Voltaire ,  Renate Wahsner
ISBN: 9783110156560
Format: Hardback
$274.47

An edition with commentary of three texts by the French 18th century philosopher Voltaire on Isaac Newton, the founder...  Read More >>

Computation, Dynamics, and Cognition

Computation, Dynamics, and Cognition

Author: Marco Giunti (formerly Research Associate in History and Philosophy of Science, formerly Research Associate in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, USA)
ISBN: 9780195090093
Format: Hardback
$384.00

This book elaborates a picture of the application of dynamical methods to the study of cognition. Giunti argues...  Read More >>

Popper

Popper

Author: Bryan Magee
ISBN: 9780006860082
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged...  Read More >>

Foundational Analysis: Presuppositions in Experimental Psychology

Foundational Analysis: Presuppositions in Experimental...

Author: Pertti Saariluoma
ISBN: 9780415145855
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences

On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the...

Author: Richard Doyle
ISBN: 9780804727655
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology,...  Read More >>

Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube

Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins...

Author: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
ISBN: 9780804727860
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Arguing for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in the dynamics of modern molecular biology,...  Read More >>

On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences

On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the...

Author: Richard Doyle
ISBN: 9780804727648
Format: Hardback
$89.95

What do biologists study when they study 'life' today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory,...  Read More >>

Analysis and Synthesis in Mathematics: History and Philosophy

Analysis and Synthesis in Mathematics: History and Philosophy...

Author: M. Otte ,  Marco Panza
ISBN: 9780792345701
Format: Hardback
$599.28

In this volume various instances of the analytic-synthetic distinction are discussed in relation to the history...  Read More >>

The Future of the Cognitive Revolution

The Future of the Cognitive Revolution

Author: Johnson ,  Erneling
ISBN: 9780195103342
Format: Paperback
$77.95

Cognitive science has been dominated by a model of mental phenomena based on software--or the rules for input, output,...  Read More >>

No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought

No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought...

Author: Charles E. Rosenberg (Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780801855986
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This expanded edition focuses on the dilemmas posed by the social study of science: how can we reconcile the scientist's...  Read More >>

The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective

The New Middle Class and Democracy in Global Perspective...

Author: R. Glassman
ISBN: 9780333683057
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Ths text attempts to answer the question of whether the ""New Middle Class"" will become the carrying class for...  Read More >>

Selected Works

Selected Works

Author: Galen ,  P. N. Singer
ISBN: 9780192824509
Format: Paperback
$26.95

This is an English translation of Galen. It presents an introduction to his medical system, and to his philosophy...  Read More >>

Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines

Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific...

Author: Timothy Lenoir
ISBN: 9780804729253
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Focusing on new disciplines in 19th-century German universities, this book reexamines certain critical junctures...  Read More >>

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