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Continental Philosophy of Science
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Gary Gutting |
Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guide to the major twentieth-century French and German philosophical thinking on science. A comprehensive introduction by the editor provides a un… |
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The beginning of infinity
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Deutsch, David |
"A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the m… |
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Rhetorical darwinism
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Thomas M. Lessl |
Explores the relation between evolutionary theory (a scientific principle) and evolutionism (unscientific applications of evolutionary theory, such as social Darwinism and competitive-market economic… |
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Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology
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K. Brad Wray |
"Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scie… |
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Divine machines
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Justin E. H. Smith |
"Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent… |
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Ignorance
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Stuart Firestein |
Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science… |
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Science of the people
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Solomon, Joan |
"How do people understand science? How do they feel about science, how do they relate to it, what do they hope from it and what do they fear about it? Science of the People: Understanding and using s… |
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On the integration of nature
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Richard Grossinger |
"A series of short essays, stories, and fragments concerning the nature of matter, life, consciousness, and identity in the context of a critique of science and American government policies"--Provide… |
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From knowledge to wisdom
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Nicholas Maxwell |
From Knowledge to Wisdom argues that there is an urgent need, for both intellectual and humanitarian reasons, to bring about a revolution in science and the humanities. The outcome would be a kind o… |
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The theory of everything
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Stephen Hawking |
A series of lectures by the renowned physicist reviews past ideas from Aristotle to Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity, the Big Bang, and black holes and explores quantum mechanics and the tim… |
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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Stephen Hawking |
Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration after defying his ALS diagnosis at age twenty-one. He is known for both his breakthroughs in theore… |
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The greatest story ever told--so far
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Lawrence Maxwell Krauss |
Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing , and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic st… |
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Can that be Right?
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Allan Franklin |
In this collection of essays Allan Franklin defends the view that science provides us with knowledge about the world which is based on experimental evidence and on reasoned and critical discussion. I… |
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Ernst Mach - A Deeper Look
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John Blackmore |
Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look has been written to reveal to English-speaking readers the recent revival of interest in Ernst Mach in Europe and Japan. The book is a storehouse of new information on Mac… |
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Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science
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Artur Rojszczak |
Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science is a collection of outstanding contributed papers presented at the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science held in K… |
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Science and sustainability
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Joy Hendry |
"This book is about indigenous science: sustainable knowledge and practice of Indigenous peoples around the world which has usually been developed and handed down for generations, but which was often… |
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Mere creation
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William A. Dembski |
A Movement has Emerged among scholars exploring the possibility of intelligent design as an explanatory theory in scientific descriptions of the universe. As Michael Behe has proposed in his landmark… |
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The Emergence of Everything
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Harold J. Morowitz |
When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When… |
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Kuhn vs. Popper
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Steve Fuller |
"Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions has sold over a million copies in more than twenty languages and has remained one of the ten most cited academic works for the past half century. In… |
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Fire in the mind
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Johnson, George |
Fire in the Mind is on one level a conventional--albeit exceptionally well-executed--work of science journalism. Johnson provides an up-to-the-minute survey of the most exciting and philosophically r… |
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