Philosophy & Social Aspects

Epistemology has traditionally been motivated by a desire to respond to skeptical challenges. The skeptic presents an argument for the view that knowledge is impossible, and the theorist of knowledge is called upon to explain why we should think,...

Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy's relationship to science and science's relationship to realityThe Technique of Thought explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966132762Author Fred Alan WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Moment Point Press Inc,USPublisher Moment Point Press Inc,US

Humans are moral creatures. Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved?...

How should the concept of evidence be understood? And how does the concept of evidence apply to the controversy about creationism as well as to work in evolutionary biology about natural selection and common ancestry? In this rich and wide-ranging book,...

This 1996 book defends the prospects for a science of society. It argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of scientific rationality that the social sciences can and sometimes do achieve. It also argues that good...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916399808Format PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Brazil ProductionsPublisher Brazil ProductionsDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 14mm

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is universally recognised as one of the most important science books ever written. The Origin of Species is also a work of great cultural and religious significance, in that Darwin maintained that all organisms,...

This introduction to the physical sciences and engineering of the Islamic world is the first to trace the full extent of the Muslim scientific achievement in the period 750-1500. It describes how Muslim scientists and engineers contributed enormously to...

In the early twentieth century, Ernst Mach, William James, and Bertrand Russell founded a philosophical and scientific movement known as 'neutral monism', based on the view that minds and physical objects are constructed out of elements or events which...

Individuals are things that everybody knows or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biological...

Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity, which is considered the founding principle of modern physics. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and...

Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity, which is considered the founding principle of modern physics. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061235191Author Professor of Molecular Biology Lee M SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

In The Borderlands of Science Michael Shermer takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory), and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another. An excursion through the...

Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities. Caudwell provides a trenchant critique of mechanism and positivism. In the words of J. B. S...

The Prisoner's Dilemma is one of the most fiercely debated thought experiments in philosophy and the social sciences, presenting the simple insight that when two or more agents interact, the actions that most benefit each individual may not benefit the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780865479180Author Ben GoldacreFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus and...

Explanations are important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical contexts. But what is an explanation? In the philosophical study of explanation, there is long-standing, influential tradition that...

Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists do so in terms of symmetry and invariance. This book argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. The author analyses and rejects the arguments that...

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time-fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them-and still living them-today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618056736Author Richard DawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 382g

An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science. In these essays, he examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262610377Author Philip KitcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 318g

Ideas, Dan Sperber argues, may be contagious. They may invade whole populations. In the process, the people, their environment, and the ideas themselves are being transformed. To explain culture is to describe the causes and the effects of this contagion...

A prominent issue in many contemporary philosophy of religion debates concerns whether the universe has a Designer. This book moves the discussion ahead in a significant way by devising an original deductive formulation of the Teleological Argument (TA)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805070897Author Michael ShermerFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 344gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing. A complete guide to the philosophy of computing and information. Comprises 26 newly-written...

Scientific literacy is an essential aspect of any undergraduate education. Recipes for Science responds to this need by providing an accessible introduction to the nature of science and scientific methods appropriate for any beginning college student...

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues-chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb-and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving...

"Startling in scope and bravado." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times"Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world." -Los Angeles Times"Elaborate, smart and persuasive." -The Boston Globe"A pleasure to read." -The Wall Street JournalOne of CBS News's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068620409Author Matthew R. BentonFormat PaperbackImprint Postbridge BooksPublisher Postbridge Books

A magisterial study of the philosophy of physics that both introduces the subject to the non-specialist and contains many original and important contributions for professionals in the area. Modern physics was born as a part of philosophy and has retained...

How far are we willing to go in the name of "better sport"? Athletes have long sought to push the limits of human potential, but the advent and application of new knowledge, science, and technologies has taken elite sports into uncharted territory...

For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding...

For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human...

The logician Kurt Goedel (1906-1978) published a paper in 1931 formulating what have come to be known as his 'incompleteness theorems', which prove, among other things, that within any formal system with resources sufficient to code arithmetic, questions...

Scientific Testimony concerns the roles of scientific testimony in science and society. The book develops a positive alternative to a tradition famously expressed by the slogan of the Royal Society Nullius in verba ("Take nobody's word for it"). This...

Can we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to make inferences about universal laws of life, on Earth and elsewhere? In this book, Russell Powell investigates whether we can use the patterns and processes of convergent evolution to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130796Author Gary TomlinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 155mm * 27mm