Philosophy of Science
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Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics: The Image of Nature
Michael James BennettCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Providing cr...
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Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder
Anya PlutynskiCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that arise in the context of cancer science and medicine. She b...
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Emergence in Context: A Treatise in Twenty-First Century Natural Philosophy
Mark PextonCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and ho...
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Science Between Myth and History: The Quest for Common Ground and Its Importance for Scientific Practice
Jos´e G. Perill´anCurrent price €52.24Original price €54.99Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of science, yet there's been little reflection on its ...
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The Ethical Chemist: Professionalism and Ethics in Science
Jeffrey KovacCurrent price €69.34Original price €72.99This book is an introduction to professional ethics in chemistry. After a brief overview of ethical theory, it provides a detailed discussion of pr...
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
Nicholas SpencerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widesp...
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
Nicholas SpencerCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widesp...
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Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
Richard DeWittCurrent price €32.29Original price €33.99Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title!PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS This is a brilliantly clear introduction (and indeed re...
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Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics
Dr Matteo MameliCurrent price €25.03Original price €27.50Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues...
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The Skeptics'' Guide to the Universe: How To Know What''s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
Steven NovellaCurrent price €16.84Original price €18.50'A fantastic compendium of skeptical thinking and the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction.' Richard Wiseman, author 5...
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A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms: Essays in Honor of Salvo D''Agostino
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €128.69Original price €142.99The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ran...
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Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
Michael EppersonCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics woul...
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The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage
Catherine MalabouCurrent price €41.85Original price €45.99This book employs a philosophical approach to the new wounded (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempor...
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Perspectives on Classification in Synthetic Sciences: Unnatural Kinds
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification. Most philosophical conversations about kinds have ...
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Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Erika Lorraine MilamCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how...
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Objective Becoming
Bradford SkowCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Bradford Skow presents an original defense of the 'block universe' theory of time, often said to be a theory according to which time does not pass....
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We, Hominids: An anthropological detective story
Frank WestermanCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The Dutch bestseller Nominated for Le Prix Nicolas Bouvier 'A masterclass in storytelling, exploring who we are and where we came from' Danielle ...
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The Invention of Surgery
Dr David SchneiderCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing. - The Wall Street Journal A globetrotting historical adventure, told from the ...
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Making Medical Knowledge
Miriam SolomonCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last...
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Kuhn''s ''Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic
The University of Chicago PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...
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Kuhn''s ''Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic
The University of Chicago PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...
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How We Teach Science: Whats Changed, and Why It Matters
John L. RudolphCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99A former Wisconsin high school science teacher makes the case that how and why we teach science matters, especially now that its legitimacy is unde...
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Metaphysical Emergence
Jessica M. WilsonCurrent price €91.79Original price €101.99Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (incl...
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At Home in the World: Human Nature, Ecological Thought, and Education after Darwin
Eilon SchwartzCurrent price €29.58Original price €32.50Current price €29.58Original price €32.50Save 9%