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  • The Quest for Human Nature

    What Philosophy and Science Have Learned

    de Marco J. Nathan ...
    Over the last fifty years, scholars in biology, psychology, anthropology, and cognate fields have substantially enriched traditional philosophical theories about who we are and where we come from. The assumption of a shared human nature lies at the core of some of the most pressing socio-political issues of our time. From race to sex and gender, from medical therapy to disability, from ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • Black Boxes

    How Science Turns Ignorance Into Knowledge

    de Marco J. Nathan ...
    Textbooks and other popular venues commonly present science as a progressive "brick-by-brick" accumulation of knowledge and facts. Despite its hallowed history and familiar ring, this depiction is nowadays rejected by most specialists. There currently are two competing models of the scientific enterprise: reductionism and antireductionism. Neither provides an accurate depiction of the productive ... Leer más

    $75.59 USD

  • Philosophy of Molecular Medicine

    Foundational Issues in Research and Practice

    Edición de Giovanni Boniolo, Marco J. Nathan ...
    Philosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Theory and Practice aims at a systematic investigation of a number of foundational issues in the field of molecular medicine. The volume is organized around four broad modules focusing, respectively, on the following key aspects: What are the nature, scope, and limits of molecular medicine? How does it provide explanations? How does it ... Leer más

    $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

    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

    $25.69 USD

  • Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition

    Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

    de Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    Now updated with the latest research, this pioneering, accessible study argues for a more complex view of evolution—proposing there is more to heredity than just genes.In this revised edition the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb propose that there are four “dimensions” in heredity. These four inheritance systems play a role in evolution which, they argue, can ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Medical Nihilism

    de Jacob Stegenga ...
    This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low. ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Theory and Reality

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $22.39 USD

  • How Physics Makes Us Free

    de J. T. Ismael ...
    In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and rivers flowing downhill tell us that it is in principle possible to predict what each of us will do ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind

    de Eric R. Kandel ...
    Brought together for the first time in a single volume, these eight important and fascinating essays by Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist Eric Kandel provide a breakthrough perspective on how biology has influenced modern psychiatric thought. Complete with commentaries by experts in the field, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind reflects the author's evolving view of how biology ... Leer más

    $70.19 USD

  • Philosophy of Social Science

    de Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable for social scientists because the choices they make in answering ... Leer más

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  • Care & Cure

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

    de Jacob Stegenga ...
    The author of Medical Nihilism examines the philosophical complications and controversies underlying medicine.The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often ... Leer más

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  • Free Will: An Examination of Human Freedom

    de Magnus Vinding ...
    Do we have free will?Not many questions can excite people more than this one, and for good reasons. Our ideas about our own freedom influence some of the most important aspects of our lives, from our political decisions and legal practices to our personal motivations, choices, and actions.The goal of this short book is to address the problem of free will. This goal is not pursued by reciting the ... Leer más

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