Philosophy of Science
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Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution
Dr Arlin StoltzfusCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to sha...
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The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved
Ursula GoodenoughCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity--point to an existence tha...
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Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International
B. DohertyCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a ...
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Above the Gene, Beyond Biology: Toward a Philosophy of Epigenetics
Jan BaedkeCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Epigenetics is currently one of the fastest-growing fields in the sciences. Epigenetic information not only controls DNA expression but links genet...
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Love, Order, and Progress: The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte
University of Pittsburgh PressCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable soci...
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A Non-Philosophical Theory of Nature: Ecologies of Thought
A. SmithCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Utilizing François Laruelle's non-philosophical method, Smith constructs a unified theory of philosophical theology and ecology by challenging envi...
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Policing Wildlife: Perspectives on the Enforcement of Wildlife Legislation
A. NurseCurrent price €128.69Original price €142.99Policing Wildlife examines both the extent and enforcement of wildlife law, one of the fastest growing areas of crime globally. The book considers ...
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Challenging the Phenomena of Technology
M. HaylerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99What is 'technology'? What does it help us to do? What does it force us to consider about our experience of being in the world? In Challenging the...
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Compromising the Ideals of Science
R. SassowerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges ...
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Sex and the Posthuman Condition
M. HauskellerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mytholog...
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Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Reclaiming Space is an innovative study of space travel's history, legitimacy, and future. The NewSpace movement that presently dominates spaceflig...
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U.S. Organic Dairy Politics: Animals, Pasture, People, and Agribusiness
B. ScholtenCurrent price €94.75Original price €102.99Based on a decade of study, this book provides a scholarly overview of organic dairy politics, showing how politics, policy, and protest both insid...
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
Matt StrasslerCurrent price €34.68Original price €36.50In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begin...
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Every Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
Jeremy EnglandCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will fin...
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A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival
Michael SudduthCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival arguments that purport to show that data collected from osten...
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The Political Philosophy of Francis Bacon: On the Unity of Knowledge
Tom van MalssenCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Current price €77.39Original price €85.99Save 10% -
Neptunes Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea
Antony AdlerCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99An eyewitness to profound change affecting marine environments on the Newfoundland coast, Antony Adler argues that the history of our relationship ...
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On Theories: Logical Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics
William DemopoulosCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99A renowned philosophers final work, illuminating how the logical empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual experiments in fo...
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The Probability Map of the Universe: Essays on David Alberts Time and Chance
Harvard University PressCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Philosophers debate the ideas and implications of one of the most important contemporary works in the philosophy of science, David Alberts Time and...
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Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing
Françoise BaylisCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A leading bioethicist offers critical insights into the scientific, ethical, and political implications of human genome editing.Designer babies, on...
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Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry
Anil GuptaCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99A distinguished philosopher offers a novel account of experience and reason, and develops our understanding of conscious experience and its relatio...
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Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father
Nara B. MilanichCurrent price €35.69Original price €41.99In this rigorous and beautifully researched volume, Milanich considers the tension between social and biological definitions of fatherhood, and sho...
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The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition
Rami GabrielCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe l...
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