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Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey Natalia Rogach Alexander 9780231221894
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $179.28John 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... -
Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science by David L. Hull
Booksplease Price: $79.36"Legend is overdue for replacement, and an adequate replacement must attend to the process of science as carefully as Hull has done. I share his vision of a serious account of the social and... -
Rethinking Race: The Case for Deflationary Realism by Michael O. Hardimon
RRP: $77.60Booksplease Price: $65.16Many scholars and activists seek to eliminate "race"-the word and the concept-from our vocabulary. Their claim is clear: because science has shown that racial essentialism is false and because the... -
Philosophy of Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Samir Okasha
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science's most divisive topics, such as philosophical... -
A Natural History of Human Morality by Michael Tomasello
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $35.60Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological AssociationWinner of a PROSE Award, Association of American PublishersShortlist, Cognitive Development... -
The Constitution of Science C. Mantzavinos 9781009509176
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $52.56How 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... -
Explanatory Pluralism by C. Mantzavinos
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $117.66Explaining phenomena is one of the main activities in which scientists engage. This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of... -
On What Matters: Volume One by Derek Parfit
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $99.71On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this... -
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga 9780199812097
RRP: $90.28Booksplease Price: $88.47This book is a long-awaited major statement by a pre-eminent analytic philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, on one of our biggest debates -- the compatibility of science and religion. The last twenty years... -
On Truth and Meaning: Language, Logic and the Grounds of Belief by Christopher Norris 9780826491282
Booksplease Price: $96.08As one of the world's leading and most highly-acclaimed contemporary theorists, Christopher Norris has spent much of the last twenty years trying to promote better relations and mutual understanding... -
On What Matters: Two-volume set by Derek Parfit 9780199265923
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $123.44On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now... -
Conversations on Rational Choice Catherine Herfeld 9781107547643
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $78.60Rational choice theories belong to the most important building blocks of 20th century economics. Their usefulness to model human behaviour has been extensively debated in modern social science and... -
Conversations on Rational Choice Catherine Herfeld 9781107121850
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $242.36Rational choice theories belong to the most important building blocks of 20th century economics. Their usefulness to model human behaviour has been extensively debated in modern social science and... -
On What Matters: Volume Two by Derek Parfit
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $100.76On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now... -
A Natural History of Human Morality by Michael Tomasello 9780674088641
Booksplease Price: $79.49A Natural History of Human Morality offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on extensive experimental data comparing great apes and human children,... -
Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism by James Rachels 9780192861290
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $55.34Since the Origin of Species was first published, Darwinism has been attacked for undermining traditional morality. In particular, because it emphasizes the kinship between humans and other animals,... -
Evolutionary Religion by J. L. Schellenberg 9780198744368
Booksplease Price: $61.97J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should frame our... -
Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry Jacob Stegenga 9780226844053
Booksplease Price: $48.15A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must justify its claims. In Heart of Science, philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most dominant... -
Fraud in the Lab: The High Stakes of Scientific Research by Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis
RRP: $67.10Booksplease Price: $57.02From a journalist and former lab researcher, a penetrating investigation of the explosion in cases of scientific fraud and the factors behind it.In the 1970s, a scientific scandal about painted mice... -
Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry Jacob Stegenga 9780226844039
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $185.96A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must justify its claims. In Heart of Science, philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most dominant... -
Reconstructing Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists by Chris Voparil 9780197605721
RRP: $155.40Booksplease Price: $150.30The figure of Richard Rorty stands in complex relation to the tradition of American pragmatism. On the one hand, his intellectual creativity, lively prose, and bridge-building fueled the contemporary... -
Darwin and His Bears: How Darwin Bear and His Galapagos Islands Friends Inspired a Scientific Revolution by Frank J. Sulloway 9780922233519
Booksplease Price: $47.04When Charles Darwin first stepped off the HMS Beagle and into the harsh and formidable world of the Galapagos islands with their sun-baked lava, spiny cactus, and tangled brushwood, he encountered... -
Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Michael Ruse 9780691135540
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $86.58Wittgenstein famously remarked in 1923, "Darwin's theory has no more relevance for philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Yet today we are witnessing a major revival of interest in... -
Shared Reality: What Makes Us Strong and Tears Us Apart by E. Tory Higgins
Booksplease Price: $52.42What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are as humans, we also... -
Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science by Mauricio Suárez 9780226830049
Booksplease Price: $59.96The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suarez develops a conception of representation that... -
Inference and Representation: A Study in Modeling Science by Mauricio Suárez 9780226830025
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $203.49The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. Mauricio Suarez develops a conception of representation that... -
The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View by Tim Crane 9780674088832
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $45.61"[A] lucid and thoughtful book... In a spirit of reconciliation, Crane proposes to paint a more accurate picture of religion for his fellow unbelievers." -James Ryerson, New York Times Book... -
Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary by W. V. Quine 9780674743526
RRP: $75.50Booksplease Price: $63.55The appellation "polymath" is often lightly bestowed, but it can be applied with confidence to the celebrated philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine's areas of interest are panoramic, as this... -
Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes 9780691179001
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their... -
The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller 9780822347149
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $135.03In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the persistent disputes regarding the roles played by... -
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology by Gregory Radick 9780226822723
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $57.96A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of... -
The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller
Booksplease Price: $46.96In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the persistent disputes regarding the roles played by... -
Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology by Gregory Radick 9780226822709
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $204.12A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of... -
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott Sober 9780674930476
RRP: $92.30Booksplease Price: $76.57No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major...