Philosophy of science books

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The Discourses of Science

The Discourses of Science
Author: Marcello Pera , Clarissa Botsford ISBN: 9780226656175 Format: Hardback	$102.95
Incorporating a translation of ""Scienza e Retorica"", this text presents Pera's theory of rhetoric and is central... Read More >>

Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns?

Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing...
Author: Alexander Rosenberg (Duke University) ISBN: 9780226727240 Format: Paperback	$57.95
Economics today cannot predict the likely outcome of specific events any better than it could in the time of Adam... Read More >>

Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes

Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities...
Author: Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science John Earman (University of Pittsburgh) , Earman John ISBN: 9781280451133 Format: Electronic book text	$231.66
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Science Reason Rhetoric

Science Reason Rhetoric
Author: Reader in History and Philosophy of Science Henry Krips (University of Melbourne) , J E McGuire ISBN: 9781306555708 Format: Undefined	$79.07
This volume marks a unique collaboration by internationally distinguished scholars in the history, rhetoric, philosophy,... Read More >>

Henry More: Magic, religion and experiment

Henry More: Magic, religion and experiment
Author: A. Rupert Hall ISBN: 9780521566674 Format: Paperback	$68.51
Henry More, a Cambridge Platonist, remains one of the most perplexing of English metaphysical theologians. This... Read More >>

Controlling Technology: Contemporary Issues

Controlling Technology: Contemporary Issues
Author: William B. Thompson ISBN: 9780879756161 Format: Paperback	$84.48
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Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community: Essays in the Philosophy and History of the Natural Sciences and MathematicsIn Honor of Robert S. Cohen

Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community: Essays...
Author: K. Gavroglu , J.J. Stachel ISBN: 9780792329916 Format: Book	$871.17
A collection of essays that pay tribute to the Professor Cohen's intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher... Read More >>

Genesis & the Big Bang -OS

Genesis & the Big Bang -OS
Author: Dr Chuck Missler ISBN: 9781880532751 Format: Undefined	$39.47
Recent discoveries in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, particle physics, and molecular biology have cast a... Read More >>

Knots and Applications

Knots and Applications
Author: L Rozansky , Mario G Rasetti ISBN: 9781299635098 Format: Electronic book text	$472.56
This volume is a collection of research papers devoted to the study of relationships between knot theory and the... Read More >>

Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony

Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen...
Author: James T. Cushing ISBN: 9780226132044 Format: Paperback	$92.95
In examining the role that timing can play in the establishment of theory and explanation, this book argues that... Read More >>

Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science

Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science
Author: Alexander Rosenberg (Duke University) ISBN: 9780226727264 Format: Paperback	$61.95
Do the sciences aim to uncover the structure of nature, or are they a practical means of controlling our environment?... Read More >>

Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination

Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-century...
Author: Jonathan Smith ISBN: 9780299143541 Format: Paperback	$40.70
Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon... Read More >>

Concepts of Space in Greek Thought

Concepts of Space in Greek Thought
Author: Keimpe Algra ISBN: 9789004101722 Format: Hardback	$551.76
This book provides detailed information about the theories of place and space of the ancient atomists, Plato, Aristotle,... Read More >>

Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science

Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science
Author: Alexander Rosenberg (Duke University) ISBN: 9780226727257 Format: Hardback	$163.95
Do the sciences aim to uncover the structure of nature, or are they a practical means of controlling our environment?... Read More >>

Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony

Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen...
Author: James T. Cushing ISBN: 9780226132020 Format: Hardback	$203.95
By exploring two observationally equivalent yet conceptually incompatible views of quantum mechanics, Cushing shows... Read More >>

Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays

Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays
Author: Robert P. George (Professor of Politics, Professor of Politics, Princeton University) ISBN: 9780198235521 Format: Paperback	$91.95
Twelve original essays by contemporary natural law theorists and their critics. Read More >>

Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy

Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering...
Author: Carl Mitcham ISBN: 9780226531984 Format: Paperback	$54.95
This introduction to the philosophy of technology discusses its sources and uses. Tracing the changing meaning of... Read More >>

Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century...
Author: Jonathan Smith ISBN: 9780299143503 Format: Hardback	$137.28
Examining the cultural debate about scientific method in 19th-century Britain, this study focuses on Francis Bacon... Read More >>

Platform for Change

Platform for Change
Author: Stafford Beer ISBN: 9780471948407 Format: Paperback	$107.95
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Ancient Astrology

Ancient Astrology
Author: Tamysn Barton ISBN: 9780415110297 Format: Paperback	$90.99
An account of astrology from its beginnings in Mesopotamia, focusing on the Greco-Roman world. ' Ancient Astrology'... Read More >>

An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity

An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein,...
Author: Harald Fritzsch , Karin Heusch ISBN: 9780226265575 Format: Hardback	$110.88
An Equation That Changed the World dramatizes the importance of relativity, for the human race, and the survival... Read More >>

Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work - with Selected Writings on Time, Logic and the Methodology of Science

Zygmunt Zawirski: His Life and Work - with Selected...
Author: Irena Szumilewicz-Lachman , Robert S. Cohen ISBN: 9780792325666 Format: Hardback	$630.96
Presents some fragments of Zawirski's papers, dealing mainly with causality, determinism, indeterminism and philosophical... Read More >>

Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher: Volume 1. Probability and Probabilistic Causality

Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher: Volume 1. Probability...
Author: P. Humphreys ISBN: 9780792325529 Format: Hardback	$974.16
Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical... Read More >>

Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher: Volume 3. Language, Logic, and Psychology

Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher: Volume 3. Language,...
Author: P. Humphreys ISBN: 9780792328629 Format: Hardback	$902.88
Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical... Read More >>

Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher: Volume 2. Philosophy of Physics, Theory Structure, and Measurement Theory

Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher: Volume 2. Philosophy...
Author: P. Humphreys ISBN: 9780792325536 Format: Hardback	$789.36
Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical... Read More >>

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