Philosophy & Social Aspects

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In this book, Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contributions of heredity and environment to the explanation of human psychological differences. He critically examines the view - very widely...

In this collection of essays one of the preeminent philosophers of science writing offers a reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism, the revolutionary philosophical movement centered around the Vienna Circle in the 1920s and...

Is human nature something that the natural and social sciences aim to describe, or is it a pernicious fiction? What role, if any, does 'human nature' play in directing and informing scientific work? Can we talk about human nature without invoking-either...

Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid reveals that thinkers have pondered the nature of common sense and its relationship to science and scientific thinking for a very long time. It demonstrates how a diverse array of neglected early modern...

Critical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing his trademark of hopeful skepticism, Guy Harrison demonstrates in a detailed fashion how to sort through bad ideas,...

Data science has never had more influence on the world. Large companies are now seeing the benefit of employing data scientists to interpret the vast amounts of data that now exists. However, the field is so new and is evolving so rapidly that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425103804Author Rob BryantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640262Author Revilo, P. OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)...

It is almost impossible to imagine modern life without this device; yet for the first thirty years or so, from its patent in the late nineteenth century, it represented no real advantage over traditional fasteners like the hook-and-eye or the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525432593Author Alan LightmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

What is a language? What do scientific grammars tell us about the structure of individual languages and human language in general? What kind of science is linguistics? These and other questions are the subject of Ryan M. Nefdt's Language, Science, and...

Think more critically, learn to question everything, and don't let your ownbrain trip you up. This fresh and exciting approach to science, skepticism, and critical thinking will enlighten and inspire readers of all ages. With a mix of wit and wisdom,...

In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each...

In the late-1990s people hear constantly about the "information revolution". The 24-hour news channels and dizzying Internet technologies bombard people with facts and pictures from around the globe. But what kind of a "revolution" is this? How has...

We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409074Author Bryan AppleyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 450g

This book provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such topics as the nature of scientific theories, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385420983Author Bryan AppleyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

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Ian Barbour, Arthur Peackocke and John Polkinghorne are major contributors to the current interaction between science and religion. Although starting as scientists, all three have produced important work by crossing over to the field of theology. But, as...

Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740216Author George JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420g

Offering an engaging and accessible portrait of the current state of the field, Philosophy of Science: A New Introduction shows students how to think philosophically about science and why it is both essential and fascinating to do so. Gillian Barker and...

In this Element, we extend our earlier treatment of biology's first law. The law says that in any evolutionary system in which there is variation and heredity, there is a tendency for diversity and complexity to increase. The law plays the same role in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684115372Author C P SnowFormat HardbackPage Count 68Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology is an exciting collection of new essays written especially to give the reader an introduction to one of the most vibrant areas of scholarship today, and at the same time to move the subject forward...

Most Americans believe they possess an immaterial soul that will survive the death of the body. In sharp contrast, the current scientific consensus rejects the traditional soul, although this conclusion is rarely discussed publicly. In this book, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582431413Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786500739039Author Andre CancianFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Author's EditionPublisher Author's EditionWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Recent interest in the evolution of the social contract is extended by providing a throughly naturalistic, evolutionary account of the biological underpinnings of a social contract theory of morality. This social contract theory of morality...

Human nature is frequently evoked to characterize our species and describe how it differs from others. But how should we understand this concept? What is the nature of a species? Some take our nature to be an essence and argue that because humans lack an...

The fundamental burden of a theory of inductive inference is to determine which are the good inductive inferences or relations of inductive support and why it is that they are so. The traditional approach is modeled on that taken in accounts of deductive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880101158Author Jochen BockemuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press Inc

Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis In 2016, Antarctica's Totten Glacier, formed some 34 million years ago, detached from its bedrock, melted from the bottom by warming ocean...

From Archimedes' discovery of the principle of water displacement while taking a bath to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, from Brunelleschi's development of perspective drawing to the Impressionist revolution, from the taming of fire to the creation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684863092Author Paul DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)

Is there a pill for love? What about an "anti-love drug", to help us get over an ex? This book argues that certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA-the active ingredient in Ecstasy-may help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties...

In philosophy as in ordinary life, cause and effect are twin pillars on which much of our thought seems based. But almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell declared that modern physics leaves these pillars without foundations. Russell's revolutionary...

Contextualizes the "Science Wars" from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives.Beyond the Science Wars offers a broad contextualization of the "Science Wars"-an ongoing debate between scientists and...