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Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Merrilee H. Salmon
RRP: $140.68Booksplease Price: $101.07A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992.Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader represents a cooperative effort to provide an introduction... -
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Merrilee H. Salmon 9780872204508
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $55.97A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992.Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader represents a cooperative effort to provide an introduction... -
Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion by Michael R. Slater 9781107077270
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $171.61In this book, Michael R. Slater provides a new assessment of pragmatist views in the philosophy of religion. Focusing on the tension between naturalist and anti-naturalist versions of pragmatism, he... -
Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring by Phillip Kitcher 9780195183603
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an... -
Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion by Michael R. Slater 9781107434271
Booksplease Price: $67.45In this book, Michael R. Slater provides a new assessment of pragmatist views in the philosophy of religion. Focusing on the tension between naturalist and anti-naturalist versions of pragmatism, he... -
The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus by Elliott Sober 9780226767482
Booksplease Price: $69.80The Nature of Selection is a straightforward, self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory. It presents a powerful analysis of the evolutionary concepts... -
Philosophy of Science: A New Introduction by Gillian Barker 9780195366198
Booksplease Price: $89.44Offering 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... -
The Crisis of Democratic Pluralism: The Loss of Confidence in Reason and the Clash of Worldviews by Brendan Sweetman 9783030783815
Booksplease Price: $235.45This book argues that contemporary liberal democracy is reaching a crisis. Brendan Sweetman contends that this crisis arises from a contentious pluralism involving the rise of incommensurable... -
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant by Richard Schacht 9780393929089
Booksplease Price: $100.04The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant provides a comprehensive introduction to the predominantly European ("Continental") interpretive tradition of philosophy after Kant in one... -
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant: VOLUME 1: THE INTERPRETIVE TRADITION; VOLUME 2: THE ANALYTIC TRADITION by Richard Schacht 9780393929072
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $147.69Presenting an unparalleled collection of primary texts in two flexible, portable volumes, The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy also provides the rich editorial apparatus-introductions,... -
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant by Richard Schacht 9780393974683
Booksplease Price: $98.36The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant provides a comprehensive introduction to the predominantly European ("Continental") interpretive tradition of philosophy after Kant in one... -
The Crisis of Democratic Pluralism: The Loss of Confidence in Reason and the Clash of Worldviews by Brendan Sweetman 9783030783846
Booksplease Price: $235.45This book argues that contemporary liberal democracy is reaching a crisis. Brendan Sweetman contends that this crisis arises from a contentious pluralism involving the rise of incommensurable... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science Peter Machamer (University of Pittsburg) 9780631221074
RRP: $249.80Booksplease Price: $223.80This volume presentsa definitive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of science.About the Author Peter Machamer is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science Peter Machamer (University of Pittsburg) 9780631221081
RRP: $77.60Booksplease Price: $73.23This volume presentsa definitive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of science.About the Author Peter Machamer is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of... -
The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions by Alex Rosenberg
RRP: $47.25Booksplease Price: $39.33We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. But science is the only means of answering them. So declares philosopher Alex Rosenberg in this bracing,... -
Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science by Philip Mirowski 9780226538563
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $223.80"A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that... -
Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science by Philip Mirowski 9780226538570
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $94.06"A serious reconsideration of the 'economics of science' is long overdue," say Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent in the introduction to Science Bought and Sold. Indeed, it is only recently that... -
Ethics at 3:AM: Questions and Answers on How to Live Well by Richard Marshall
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $50.30What do ethicists and moral philosophers really think about? What are the most pressing concerns in the discipline today? This collection of interviews with a range of interesting and original... -
How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism by David Livingstone Smith
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $70.20How Biology Shapes Philosophy is a seminal contribution to the emerging field of biophilosophy. It brings together work by philosophers who draw on biology to address traditional and not so... -
The Origin of Scientific Revolutions: The Clash Between Pervasive Research Traditions by Rinat Nugayev 9781680533071
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $228.48What are the unequivocal causes of a scientific revolution? In The Origin of Scientific Revolutions, Rinat Nugayev proposes an ideal model that strives to reconcile cognitive and social facets of the... -
Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science by Hasok Chang
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $156.72In this innovative book, Hasok Chang constructs a philosophy of science for 'realistic people' interested in understanding and promoting the actual practices of inquiry in science and other... -
John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life by Ben Eggleston 9780195381245
Booksplease Price: $194.86The 'Art of Life' is John Stuart Mill's name for his account of practical reason. In this volume, eleven leading scholars elucidate this fundamental, but widely neglected, element of Mill's thought... -
John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life by Ben Eggleston 9780199931972
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $63.08The "Art of Life" is John Stuart Mill's name for his account of practical reason. In this volume, eleven leading scholars elucidate this fundamental, but widely neglected, element of Mill's thought... -
Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science by Hasok Chang 9781108455930
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $51.98In this innovative book, Hasok Chang constructs a philosophy of science for 'realistic people' interested in understanding and promoting the actual practices of inquiry in science and other... -
Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein by Gregory J. Morgan 9780199738625
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $88.52In this, the first book devoted to Peter Achinstein's influential work in philosophy of science, twenty distinguished philosophers, including four Lakatos award winners, address various aspects of... -
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist by Ernst Mayr 9780674896666
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $51.14A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Dewey by Steven Fesmire 9780197669259
Booksplease Price: $86.86John Dewey was the foremost philosophical figure and public intellectual in early to mid-twentieth century America. He is still the most academically cited Anglophone philosopher of the past century,... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion William E. Mann (Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Vermont) 9780631221296
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $76.78The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion features fourteen new essays written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in the field. Contributors include Linda Zabzeski, Hugh... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion by William E. Mann 9780631221289
RRP: $237.20Booksplease Price: $212.46The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion features fourteen new essays written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in the field. Contributors include Linda Zabzeski, Hugh... -
Function, Selection, and Design by David J. Buller 9780791442128
Booksplease Price: $57.46A complete sourcebook for philosophical discussion of the nature of function in biology.This authoritative book, written by the leading experts in the field of the philosophy of biology, brings... -
The Constitution of Science C. Mantzavinos 9781009509183
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $153.01How can science be protected, by whom and at what level? If science is valued positively as the incubator of the most successful solutions to representational problems of reality as well as the basis... -
The Structure of Biological Science by Alexander Rosenberg 9780521275613
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $83.27This book provides a comprehensive guide to the conceptual methodological, and epistemological problems of biology, and treats in depth the major developments in molecular biology and evolutionary... -
Atheism and Faith in the Modern World: Loving While Not Believing Colby Dickinson 9781350475380
Booksplease Price: $179.87Discussing the decline of faith and the rise of love in the modern era, Colby Dickinson proposes a critique of religious belief which addresses how a secular world can continue to mine religious... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 2 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75About the AuthorLeon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties. Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties. Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education by Harvey Siegel 9780199915729
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.51Philosophy of education has an honored place in the history of Western philosophical thought. Its questions are as vital now, both philosophically and practically, as they have ever been. In recent... -
The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and pragmatism by Christopher Hookway 9780199588381
RRP: $195.30Booksplease Price: $139.06Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American philosophers... -
Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom Akeel Bilgrami 9780231218559
RRP: $281.40Booksplease Price: $223.08States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which... -
Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom Akeel Bilgrami 9780231218566
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which... -
Mathematics as a Science of Patterns by Michael D. Resnik 9780198250142
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $114.62Mathematics as a Science of Patterns is the definitive exposition of a system of ideas about the nature of mathematics which Michael Resnik has been elaborating for a number of years. In calling... -
Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey Natalia Rogach Alexander 9780231221900
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.75John Dewey is among history's most celebrated thinkers on democracy and education, yet he has often been underappreciated and misunderstood as a philosopher. This book paints a fresh portrait of...