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Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde describing disordered relationship between science and the …
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Robert Louis Stevenson,Dr. Andrej Poleev |
A conceptual book of metascience |
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The House of Wisdom
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Jim Al-Khalili |
A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of … |
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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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Beyond the post-modern mind
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Huston Smith |
In Beyond the Post-Modern Mind, Houston Smith challenges the premises of our current Western ethos as a whole and points beyond to a new synthesis. Echoing the opening words of Dante's Divine Comedy,… |
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Visual strategies
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Felice Frankel |
Explanatory graphics can clarify or strengthen an argument by guiding us through data or concepts. Exploratory graphics draw us into the research process, allowing us to discover patterns and relati… |
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Making sense of science
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Cornelia Dean |
Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She… |
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Nature, human nature, and God
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Ian G. Barbour |
"Ian Barbour offers analyses of the shape and import of evolutionary theory, indeterminacy, neuroscience, information theory, and artificial intelligence. He also addresses deeper philosophical issue… |
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The Demon-Haunted World
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Carl Sagan |
A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace
“A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of scienc… |
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Trust in Numbers
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Theodore M. Porter |
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the cur… |
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Causality
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Judea Pearl |
Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into… |
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