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  • Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder

    Romanticizing Evolution

    by Gregory Rupik ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Biology
    Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder recruits a Romantic philosophy of biology into contemporary debates to both integrate the theoretical implications of ecology, evolution, and development, and to contextualize the successes of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis’s gene’s-eye-view of biology.The dominant philosophy of biology in the twentieth century was one developed within and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Evolution and Religion

    by Greg Graffin ...
    Questioning the beliefs of the world's eminent evolutionists. ... Read more

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  • Theory and Reality

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Levels of Organic Life and the Human

    An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology

    by Helmuth Plessner ...
    Translated by Millay Hyatt ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein.Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources to offer a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human ... Read more

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  • Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem

    In Defence of Interaction

    by Karl Popper ...
    Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what Popper calls big issues - too big for easy answers, but too important to be ignored. In these lectures, and in the discussions that ... Read more

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  • The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn

    Incommensurability in Science

    by Thomas S. Kuhn ...
    "A fascinating sketch of Kuhn's mature thought" this volume is a must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( Los Angeles Review of Books ).This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn's unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development, which Kuhn himself described as a return to the central claims of Th... ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Realism

    by Manuel DeLanda, Graham Harman ...
    Until quite recently, almost no philosophers trained in the continental tradition saw anything of value in realism. The situation in analytic philosophy was always different, but in continental philosophy realism was usually treated as a pseudo-problem. That is no longer the case.In this provocative new book, two leading philosophers examine the remarkable rise of realism in the continental ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

    by Hub Zwart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today.This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Science: A Companion

    A Companion

    Edited by Denis Bonnay, Mikael Cozic, Anouk Barberousse ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories, and concepts used by scientists. It mainly developed as a field in its own right during the twentieth century and is now a diversified and lively research area. This book surveys the current state of the discipline by focusing on central themes like confirmation of scientific hypotheses, scientific explanation, causality, the relationship ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Science

    The Systems, Validity, and Ethics of Scientific Inquiry

    by Marie Wahl ...
    Series series Scientific Inquiry: Concepts, Methods, and Theories
    The scientific discoveries of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle were considered to be in the realm of "natural philosophy." Today philosophy and science are considered separate disciplines, yet each illuminates and complements the other. Modern philosophers are apt to pose important questions about the logic behind and validity of scientific practices. This comprehensive volume explains how ... Read more

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  • Why?

    The Philosophy Behind the Question

    by Philippe Huneman ...
    Translated by Adam Hocker ...
    Series series Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
    A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? Through an analysis of these questions and others, philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the different meanings of "why," and how those meanings can, and should (or should not), be conflated.As ... Read more

    $21.99 USD