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The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives by Peter J. Beurton 9780521060240
Booksplease Price: €53.10Advances in molecular biological research in the latter half of the twentieth century have made the story of the gene vastly complicated: the more we learn about genes, the less sure we are of what a... -
Alien Life and Human Purpose: A Rhetorical Examination through History by Joseph Packer 9781498513012
Booksplease Price: €134.60Alien Life and Human Purpose: A Rhetorical Examination through History provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or... -
But Is It Science?: The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy by Robert T. Pennock 9781591025825
Booksplease Price: €21.40On December 20, 2005, a U.S. district court in Dover, Pennsylvania, ruled in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School Board that teaching Intelligent Design in public school biology classes violates... -
The Scientific & the Divine: Conflict and Reconciliation from Ancient Greece to the Present by James A. Arieti 9780742513976
Booksplease Price: €52.73There have been many-too many-attempts over the centuries to bring science and religion into harmony. James A. Arieti and Patrick A. Wilson survey and assess these various efforts, from Plato to... -
What Philosophy Can Do by Gary Gutting 9780393353358
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.60In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting leaves the ivory tower to tackle difficult questions in everyday life and shows how philosophy can be used as a method for interrogating our world-and one... -
Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present Peter J. Bowler 9781009448970
Booksplease Price: €96.07From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention on the British and American public. By applying... -
Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future by Peter J. Bowler
Booksplease Price: €57.49Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it... -
Science of God: Truth in the Age of Science by Kevin J. Sharpe 9780742542679
Booksplease Price: €51.56Is theology responsible to tradition or new insight? Institutional church or humanity at large? Spiritual or everyday existence? Revelation or scientific findings? In his new bookScience of... -
Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present Peter J. Bowler 9781009448994
Booksplease Price: €32.82From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention on the British and American public. By applying... -
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer 9780691150697
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.07What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology - especially in... -
Seven Days that Divide the World, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science by John C. Lennox
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.92Now revised and updated--John Lennox's acclaimed method of reading and interpreting the first chapters of Genesis without discounting either science or Scripture. What did the writer of Genesis mean... -
Adaptation and the Brain by Susan Healy 9780199546763
Booksplease Price: €58.38Why does brain size vary so widely among vertebrate animal species? What role has natural selection played in shaping the structure and function of the vertebrate brain? This accessible book unravels... -
Adaptation and the Brain by Susan Healy 9780199546756
Booksplease Price: €121.63Why does brain size vary so widely among vertebrate animal species? What role has natural selection played in shaping the structure and function of the vertebrate brain? This accessible book unravels... -
2084 Video Study: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by John C. Lennox 9780310109600
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €43.16How many times a day do you ask a digital assistant for help? But do we ever consider how the increased incorporation of AI into our lives will affect our individual and corporate privacy, the... -
Christians and Evolution: Christian scholars change their mind by Professor R J Berry
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The debate surrounding creation and evolution divides Christians, particularly evangelicals. It has been a stumbling block for young Christians and a point of contention for the new Atheists... -
Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications by Hugh Desmond
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €82.53Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications examines human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with contributions from leading paleobiologists, anthropologists,... -
The Oxford Handbook of Atheism by Stephen Bullivant 9780198745075
Booksplease Price: €54.70Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably... -
A Companion to the Philosophy of Science W. H. Newton-Smith (University of Oxford) 9780631230205
RRP: €48.73Booksplease Price: €46.12Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to the philosophy of... -
Religion after Science: The Cultural Consequences of Religious Immaturity by J. L. Schellenberg 9781108713078
Booksplease Price: €32.84In this provocative work, J. L. Schellenberg addresses those who, influenced by science, take a negative view of religion, thinking of it as outmoded if not decadent. He promotes the view that... -
What Philosophy Can Do by Gary Gutting 9780393242270
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €24.00In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting leaves the ivory tower to tackle difficult questions in everyday life and shows how philosophy can be used as a method for interrogating our world-and one... -
Darwin by Charles Darwin 9780393958492
Booksplease Price: €25.55The impact of Charles Darwin's work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all... -
Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science by David L. Hull
Booksplease Price: €44.97"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... -
Doubting Darwin?: Creationist Designs on Evolution by Sahotra Sarkar 9781405154901
RRP: €84.43Booksplease Price: €77.55Noted biologist and philosopher Sahotra Sarkar exposes the frauds and fallacies of Intelligent Design Theory, and its claim to be 'good science'. A scientific and philosophical exploration of the... -
2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition: How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future John C. Lennox 9780310166641
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.12Will technology change what it means to be human??You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're... -
The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology by David N. Stamos 9780739107782
Booksplease Price: €67.14In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real and the nature of their reality. Although many... -
Creation, Evolution and Meaning Robin Attfield 9780754604754
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €55.32This book presents the case for belief in both creation and evolution at the same time as rejecting creationism. Issues of meaning supply the context of inquiry; the book defends the meaningfulness... -
Evolution and the Big Questions: Sex, Race, Religion, and Other Matters by David N. Stamos 9781405149020
RRP: €109.42Booksplease Price: €101.16Evolution and the Big Questions "David N. Stamos's Evolution and the Big Questions delivers what its title promises-you get to look at all of the issues, such as race and ethics and religion, that... -
Evolution and the Big Questions: Sex, Race, Religion, and Other Matters by David N. Stamos
RRP: €36.83Booksplease Price: €35.06Evolution and the Big Questions "David N. Stamos's Evolution and the Big Questions delivers what its title promises-you get to look at all of the issues, such as race and ethics and religion, that... -
The Moral Defense of Homosexuality: Why Every Argument against Gay Rights Fails by Chris Meyers 9781442249318
Booksplease Price: €91.05Chris Meyers takes the reader on a careful, rational, sustained criticism of arguments about the immorality of homosexuality. Meyers refutes anti-gay arguments by showing that they are based on... -
Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin by Peter J. Bowler
Booksplease Price: €32.11The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific... -
Evolutionary Psychology: A Clinical Introduction by Christopher Badcock
Booksplease Price: €24.63According to evolutionary biologists, we are the minders of our genes. But, as Christopher Badcock points out in this book, it is only recently that evolutionists have realized that minders need... -
Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902 by Mariano Artigas 9780801883897
Booksplease Price: €63.64Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics-five... -
In the Light of Evolution: Volume III: Two Centuries of Darwin by National Academy of Sciences 9780309139861
Booksplease Price: €78.86Two Centuries of Darwin is the outgrowth of an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences on January 16-17, 2009. In the chapters of this book, leading evolutionary... -
Secularity and Non-Religion by Elisabeth Arweck
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €107.91The present collection brings together a set of essays which shed light on recent research into non-religion, secularity and atheism-topics which have been emerging as important areas of current... -
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation and division of labour' NatureOf all species that have ever existed on... -
Evolutionary Psychology: A Clinical Introduction by Christopher Badcock 9780745622057
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €63.78Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction According to evolutionary biologists, we are the minders of our genes. But, as Christopher Badcock points out in this book, it is only recently that... -
Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science by Elliott Sober
Booksplease Price: €110.48How 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... -
Inside the Human Genome: A Case for Non-Intelligent Design by John C. Avise 9780195393439
Booksplease Price: €36.31Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent--we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance--but do the imperfections extend down to the level of our genes? Inside the Human... -
Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science by Elliott Sober 9780521692748
Booksplease Price: €42.57How 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... -
Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature by Larry Arnhart 9780791436943
Booksplease Price: €32.56This book shows how Darwinian biology supports an Aristotelian view of ethics as rooted in human nature. Defending a conception of "Darwinian natural right" based on the claim that the good is the...