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  • City of Silence

    de Alexander Bird ...
    Patrick Gold, born in rural England, grows up neglected with a rough childhood. As times begin to change, Patrick decides to leave his insular childhood farm at a young age. Despite eventually finding stardom in the form of diplomacy, Patrick Gold yearns for more.Ambassador Patrick Gold arrives in the city of Yoriah, untouched by the Western world since 1945. Due to its annexation by the Soviet ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Knowing Science

    de Alexander Bird ...
    In Knowing Science, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the concept of knowledge. Science aims at knowledge and progresses when it adds to the stock of knowledge. That knowledge is social knowing--it is known by the scientific community as a whole. Evidence is that from which knowledge can be obtained by inference. From this, it ... Leer más

    $86.99 USD

  • Thomas Kuhn

    de Alexander Bird ...
    Thomas Kuhn (1922-96) transformed the philosophy of science. His seminal 1962 work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" introduced the term 'paradigm shift' into the vernacular and remains a fundamental text in the study of the history and philosophy of science. This introduction to Kuhn's ideas covers the breadth of his philosophical work, situating "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Arguing About Science

    Edición de Alexander Bird, James Ladyman ...
    Series series Arguing About Philosophy
    Arguing About Science is an outstanding, engaging introduction to the essential topics in philosophy of science, edited by two leading experts in the field. This exciting and innovative anthology contains a selection of classic and contemporary readings that examine a broad range of issues, from classic problems such as scientific reasoning; causation; and scientific realism, to more recent topics ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Properties, Powers and Structures

    Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism

    Edición de Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, Howard Sankey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
    While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science—and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innovative field of research in its own right. The principle areas covered are:The modal metaphysics of properties: ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Philosophy of Science

    The Systems, Validity, and Ethics of Scientific Inquiry

    de 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 ... Leer más

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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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem

    In Defence of Interaction

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Science

    A Contemporary Introduction

    de Alex Rosenberg ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg’s updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume is a much-used, thematically oriented introduction to the field.New features of the Third Edition ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science

    Edición de Martin Curd, Stathis Psillos ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science is an indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science. It contains sixty-two specially commissioned entries by a leading team of international contributors. Organized into four parts it covers:historical and philosophical contextdebatesconceptsthe individual sciences.</ul... ... Leer más

    $120.99 USD

  • Out of Time

    A Philosophical Study of Timelessness

    de Samuel Baron, Kristie Miller, Jonathan Tallant ...
    The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist. Almost every experience we have tells us so. There has been plenty of debate around what time is like, but not whether it exists. The goal of this book is to make the absence of time thinkable. Time might not exist. Beginning with an empirically flavoured examination of the 'folk' concept of time, the book explores the ... Leer más

    $75.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science

    Edición de Paul Humphreys ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general ... Leer más

    $55.79 USD