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Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant

Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with...

Author: Prof Gordon Belot (Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780192866462
Format: Hardback
$141.95

Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance...  Read More >>

Lichtquanten: Die Geschichte des komplexen Konzepts und mentalen Modells von Photonen

Lichtquanten: Die Geschichte des komplexen Konzepts...

Author: Klaus Hentschel
ISBN: 9783662669327
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Der Autor beschäftigt sich zuerst mit der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Photons innerhalb der modernen Physik ab 1900,...  Read More >>

Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views

Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions...

Author: David Bartosch ,  Attila Grandpierre
ISBN: 9789819921300
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Just as the six branches of a snow crystal converge in regular proportions toward their common center, the six contributions...  Read More >>

Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education

Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy...

Author: Mario Veen (Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands) ,  Anna T. Cianciolo (Southern Illinois University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032204147
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores philosophy as a practice in medical education. Each chapter explores one theme in medical education...  Read More >>

The Seven Measures of the World

The Seven Measures of the World

Author: Piero Martin ,  Gregory Conti
ISBN: 9780300266276
Format: Hardback
$39.95

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Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century

Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science...

Author: Wolfgang Lefèvre
ISBN: 9783031343391
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging...  Read More >>

We, Hominids: An anthropological detective story

We, Hominids: An anthropological detective story

Author: Frank Westerman ,  Sam Garrett
ISBN: 9781803281544
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A philosophical journey hunting down the answers to who we are and what makes us human.  Read More >>

Naturally Minded: Mental Causation, Virtual Machines, and Maps

Naturally Minded: Mental Causation, Virtual Machines,...

Author: Simon Bowes
ISBN: 9783031369292
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book is an empirically informed investigation of the philosophical problem of mental causation, and a philosophical...  Read More >>

Understanding Reproduction

Understanding Reproduction

Author: Giuseppe Fusco (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) ,  Alessandro Minelli (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
ISBN: 9781009225939
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Understanding Reproduction offers a broad perspective on the phenomena of sex and reproduction. Written in an accessible...  Read More >>

Ecological Complexity

Ecological Complexity

Author: Alkistis Elliott-Graves (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
ISBN: 9781108827522
Format: Paperback
$43.99

How does the complex nature of ecological systems affect ecologists' ability to study them? This Element argues...  Read More >>

Why Delusions Matter

Why Delusions Matter

Author: Professor Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire UK)
ISBN: 9781350163294
Format: Paperback
$39.99

When we talk about delusions we may refer to symptoms of mental health problems, such as clinical delusions in schizophrenia,...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition: Moral Arguments about Transplantation

The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition: Moral Arguments...

Author: Trevor Stammers (St. Mary's University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350227187
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"""Addresses the complex ethics of organ and tissue acquisition and transplantation, using case studies from India,...  Read More >>

Human Nature

Human Nature

Author: Grant Ramsey (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781108716062
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element offers a novel concept of human nature, which avoids problematic essences and helps unite references...  Read More >>

Human Nature

Human Nature

Author: Grant Ramsey (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781009440646
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element offers a novel concept of human nature, which avoids problematic essences and helps unite references...  Read More >>

Why Delusions Matter

Why Delusions Matter

Author: Professor Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire UK)
ISBN: 9781350163300
Format: Hardback
$130.00

When we talk about delusions we may refer to symptoms of mental health problems, such as clinical delusions in schizophrenia,...  Read More >>

The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition: Moral Arguments about Transplantation

The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition: Moral Arguments...

Author: Trevor Stammers (St. Mary's University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350227170
Format: Hardback
$130.00

"""Addresses the complex ethics of organ and tissue acquisition and transplantation, using case studies from India,...  Read More >>

Ecological Complexity

Ecological Complexity

Author: Alkistis Elliott-Graves (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
ISBN: 9781316514122
Format: Hardback
$129.35

How does the complex nature of ecological systems affect ecologists' ability to study them? This Element argues...  Read More >>

Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science: How Scientific Methodology Can and Should Shape Philosophical Theorizing

Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science: How Scientific...

Author: Nina Emery (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College)
ISBN: 9780197654101
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Philosophers and scientists both ask questions about what the world is like. How do these fields interact with one...  Read More >>

Indikatoren in Entscheidungsprozessen: Stärken und strukturelle Schwächen

Indikatoren in Entscheidungsprozessen: Stärken und strukturelle...

Author: Julia Mörtel ,  Alfred Nordmann
ISBN: 9783658406370
Format: Paperback
$211.17

Stellen sie unsere Entscheidungen auf sichere Füße – oder wiegen sie uns lediglich in der Illusion von Objektivität?Das...  Read More >>

Quantum Gravity in a Laboratory?

Quantum Gravity in a Laboratory?

Author: Nick Huggett (University of Illinois, Chicago) ,  Niels Linnemann (Université de Genève)
ISBN: 9781009327534
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element critically investigates proposed tabletop experiments controversially claimed to produce and 'witness'...  Read More >>

Plato, Diagrammatic Reasoning and Mental Models

Plato, Diagrammatic Reasoning and Mental Models

Author: Susanna Saracco
ISBN: 9783031276576
Format: Hardback
$77.60

This book analyses the role of diagrammatic reasoning in Plato’s philosophy: the readers will realize that Plato,...  Read More >>

Gauge Symmetries, Symmetry Breaking, and Gauge-Invariant Approaches

Gauge Symmetries, Symmetry Breaking, and Gauge-Invariant...

Author: Philipp Berghofer (Universität Graz, Austria) ,  Jordan François (Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic)
ISBN: 9781009197229
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element focuses on the circumstances in which the restriction of gauge theories to gauge invariant information...  Read More >>

Idealization in Epistemology: A Modest Modeling Approach

Idealization in Epistemology: A Modest Modeling Approach...

Author: Prof Daniel Greco (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780198860556
Format: Hardback
$141.95

Daniel Greco argues that the landscape of epistemology looks quite different when viewed through the lens of idealization...  Read More >>

Bergson'S Philosophy of Biology: Virtual and the Vital

Bergson'S Philosophy of Biology: Virtual and the Vital...

Author: Tano Posteraro
ISBN: 9781474488815
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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