Philosophy of Science
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Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?: Philosophical Essays on Darwin''s Theory
Elliott SoberCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Is it accurate to label Darwin's theory the theory of evolution by natural selection, given that the concept of common ancestry is at least as cent...
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The Oxford Handbook of William James
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €116.09Original price €128.99William James was a giant of turn-of-the-century intellectual life. He helped found the young science of physiological psychology, produced a serie...
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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science
Thomas S. KuhnCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. This book contains the...
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
Renée BerglandCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time w...
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The World as Pure Matter or Metaphysical Illusion: Linguistic-philosophical Investigations into Language, Time, and Reality as viewed by Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Konrad Lorenz, and Erwin...
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Free Will: Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent o...
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The Scientific Works of Grosseteste, Volume II: Mapping the Universe: Robert Grosseteste''s De sphera ''On the Sphere''
Oxford University PressCurrent price €156.59Original price €173.99Mapping the Universe presents a multi-disciplinary and multi-author exploration of Robert Grosseteste's treatise On the Sphere. Composed probably i...
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The Nature of Scientific Thinking: On Interpretation, Explanation and Understanding
J. FayeCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by w...
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A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time
Adrian BardonCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, ph...
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The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
Heinrich PäsCurrent price €17.09Original price €17.99In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Päs presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This...
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The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov''s Art and the Worlds of Science
Stephen H. BlackwellCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Most famous as a literary artist, Vladimir Nabokov was also a professional biologist and a lifelong student of science. By exploring the refraction...
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Reflections on Society and Academia: Cultures Adrift
Marcel HerbstCurrent price €67.49Original price €74.99This anthology assembles notes that address a wider spectrum of concern within the social sciences, as well as higher education and design and plan...
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A Priori Revisability in Science
Boris D. GrozdanoffCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99The most influential rationalist model of scientific knowledge is arguably the one formulated recently by Michael Friedman. The central epistemic c...
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Thomas NagelCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99In Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be ...
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The Whole Truth: A Cosmologists Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
P. J. E. PeeblesCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50From the Nobel Prizewinning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people ...
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Philosophy of Science: A Unified Approach
Gerhard SchurzCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Philosophy of Science: A Unified Approach combines a general introduction to philosophy of science with an integrated survey of all its important s...
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Our Existence Part 2 :: The Nature and Origin of Life, Mind, and Soul
Christophe FinipolscieCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Science and Scepticism
John W. N. WatkinsCurrent price €151.99Original price €159.99This book contains important technical innovations, including comparative measures for the testable content, depth, and unity of scientific theorie...
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The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
Jurgen RennCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and tech...
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Ptolemy''s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life
Jacqueline FekeCurrent price €34.68Original price €36.50A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathema...
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Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory
Tim MaudlinCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the worlds leading philosophers of physicsIn this book...
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The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 9: The Geology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part III: Geological Observations on South America
Charles DarwinCurrent price €33.24Original price €34.99Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...
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