Philosophy of Science
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Literary Studies and Well-Being: Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare
Ronald SchleiferCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of ...
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Invasive Technification: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Technology
Professor Gernot BöhmeCurrent price €33.22Original price €36.50Technology has extended its reach to the human body - not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for ...
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Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics: The Image of Nature
Michael James BennettCurrent price €131.03Original 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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Life is Simple: How Occam''s Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe
JohnJoe McFaddenCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul D...
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Homage to Evangelista Torricellis Opera Geometrica 16442024: Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights
Jean DhombresCurrent price €157.42Original price €172.99Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental ...
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Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder
Anya PlutynskiCurrent price €74.61Original price €81.99In 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 €90.89Original price €100.99Science, 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 €45.89Original price €50.99Scientists 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 €62.78Original price €68.99This 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 €29.58Original price €32.50Winner 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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Robert Rosen and Relational System Theory: An Overview
James Bryan LennoxCurrent price €102.82Original price €112.99This book focuses on Robert Rosens contributions to relational system theory, which is the science of organization and function. This science was o...
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Advances in Neurophilosophy
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Bringing together recent case studies and insights into current developments, this collection introduces philosophers to a range of experimental me...
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Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €90.08Original price €98.99Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and coh...
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Animals as Experiencing Entities: Theories and Historical Narratives
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €127.26Original price €142.99This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no powerusually, although not exclusively, animals. The theme of animals as experienci...
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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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Humean Bodies and their Consequences
Ruth WeintraubCurrent price €93.72Original price €102.99This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching metaphysical and epistem...
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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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Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope: Essays in Honour of Willem B. Drees
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book collects a multidisciplinary range of contributions focusing on the prolific and seminal work of Willem Drees in the fields of philosophy...
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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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The Philosophy of Inquiry and Global Problems: The Intellectual Revolution Needed to Create a Better World
Nicholas MaxwellCurrent price €111.92Original price €122.99Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry. This holds that, in order to do justice to t...
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The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism
Walter Roy LairdCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its...
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Perspectives on Classification in Synthetic Sciences: Unnatural Kinds
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This 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 €32.85Original price €36.50Bradford 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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The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence
Marina Paola Banchetti-RobinoCurrent price €77.34Original price €84.99Robert Boyle (1627-1691) believed that a reductionist conception of the mechanical philosophy threatened the heuristic power and autonomy of chemis...
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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 €16.84Original 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 €25.03Original 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 €83.71Original price €91.99Both 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% -
Quantum Theory: A Philosopher''s Overview
Salvator CannavoCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Current price €28.79Original price €31.99Save 10% -
Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism
Yafeng ShanCurrent price €85.53Original price €93.99Causation is one of the most controversial topics in philosophy. There is a wide range of philosophical accounts of causation, for example, the reg...
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Order Out of Chaos: Mans New Dialogue with Nature
Ilya PrigogineCurrent price €27.29Original price €29.99Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Pr...
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Free Will: Philosophers and Neuroscientists in Conversation
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €79.19Original price €87.99What 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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From Modernity to Cosmodernity: Science, Culture, and Spirituality
Basarab NicolescuCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Current price €77.39Original price €85.99Save 10% -
Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
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Understanding DNA Ancestry
Sheldon KrimskyCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...
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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 11: The Correspondence, October 1870-July 1872
University of Pittsburgh PressCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99The eleventh volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall covers the period from January 1869 to the end of February 1871 and contains 427 letters ...
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Global Rhetorics of Science
State University of New York PressCurrent price €74.81Original price €85.99Current price €74.81Original price €85.99Save 13% -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing Darwins Dangerous Idea from Aristotle to DNA
John GribbinCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain...
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Eureka!: An Infographic Guide to Science
Tom CabotCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Discover how the world really works in this spectacular journey through space and time that shows the fundamentals of science in groun...
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Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery
Rani Lill AnjumCurrent price €75.52Original price €82.99Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests. Without causation, there would be no scientific understanding, explan...
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