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Knowledge, Science and Relativism by P.K. Feyerabend 9780521057271
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98This third volume of Paul Feyerabend's philosophical papers, which gathers together work originally published between 1960 and 1980, offers a range of his characteristically exciting treatments of... -
Knowledge, Science and Relativism by P.K. Feyerabend 9780521641296
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14This third volume of Paul Feyerabend's philosophical papers, which gathers together work originally published between 1960 and 1980, offers a range of his characteristically exciting treatments of... -
Optimum Inductive Methods: A Study in Inductive Probability, Bayesian Statistics, and Verisimilitude by Roberto Festa 9789048143184
Booksplease Price: £92.14This book deals with a basic problem arising within the Bayesian approach 1 to scientific methodology, namely the choice of prior probabilities. The problem will be considered with special reference... -
Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life by Susan Haack 9781616144937
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.42This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world issues. Susan Haack's keen analytical skills and... -
Optimum Inductive Methods: A Study in Inductive Probability, Bayesian Statistics, and Verisimilitude by Roberto Festa 9780792324607
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book deals with a basic problem arising within the Bayesian approach 1 to scientific methodology, namely the choice of prior probabilities. The problem will be considered with special reference... -
The Global Society and Its Enemies: Liberal Order Beyond the Third World War by Ludger Kuhnhardt 9783319857770
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book discusses contemporary constellations of international politics and global transformation. It offers guidance on how to conceptualize the complexity of current global changes and practical... -
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.77Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton... -
A Theory of Philosophical Fallacies by Leonard Nelson 9783319207827
Booksplease Price: £46.74Presented as a Vorlesung in the German philosophical tradition, this book presents the most detailed account of Nelson's method of argument analysis, celebrated by many luminaries such as Karl Popper... -
Ralf Dahrendorf: Between Social Theory and Political Practice by Olaf Kuhne 9783030442996
Booksplease Price: £90.68Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 to 2009) has worked in sociology, political practice and political philosophy, and is associated with significant impulses in role theory and conflict theory. This book presents... -
Mont Pelerin 1947: Transcripts of the Founding Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society by Bruce Caldwell
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £23.13Marking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, in 1947, this volume presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event. The society was... -
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4 by Imre Lakatos
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Both... -
Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century: Four Central Themes Donald Gillies (Late of Kings College, London) 9780631183587
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £36.26This book traces the development during the 20th century of four central themes in the philosophy of science. The themes, chosen for their importance are expounded in a way which does not presuppose... -
A Theory of Philosophical Fallacies by Leonard Nelson 9783319373232
Booksplease Price: £46.74Presented as a Vorlesung in the German philosophical tradition, this book presents the most detailed account of Nelson's method of argument analysis, celebrated by many luminaries such as Karl Popper... -
Ralf Dahrendorf: Between Social Theory and Political Practice by Olaf Kuhne 9783030442965
Booksplease Price: £90.68Ralf Dahrendorf (1929 to 2009) has worked in sociology, political practice and political philosophy, and is associated with significant impulses in role theory and conflict theory. This book presents... -
Popper and the Human Sciences by Gregory Currie 9789024729982
Booksplease Price: £92.04Although Sir Karl Popper's contributions to a number of diverse areas of philosophy are widely appreciated, serious criticism of his work has tended to focus on his philosophy of the natural sciences... -
Language and Production: A Critique of the Paradigms by Gyorgy Markus 9789027721693
Booksplease Price: £90.56In Language and Production, Gyorgy Markus presents us with a pro found critique of contemporary social theory: of the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; of the philosophy of... -
Getting to Know the World Scientifically: An Objective View by Paul Needham 9783030402181
Booksplease Price: £41.36This undergraduate textbook introduces some fundamental issues in philosophy of science for students of philosophy and science students. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with... -
Getting to Know the World Scientifically: An Objective View by Paul Needham 9783030402150
Booksplease Price: £56.12This undergraduate textbook introduces some fundamental issues in philosophy of science for students of philosophy and science students. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with... -
The Communist Party In Power: A Profile Of Party Politics In Czechoslovakia by Karel Kaplan
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £80.49The aim of this book is simple. It seeks to describe the main features of the internal life and functioning of a communist party. It reflects both the results of a historian's research and the long... -
Learning, Teaching and Education Research in the 21st Century: An Evolutionary Analysis of the Role of Teachers by Joanna Swann 9781441163172
Booksplease Price: £45.75Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, Joanna Swann presents a radical new theory of the role and purpose of teachers. "Learning, Teaching and Education Research in the 21st Century: An Evolutionary... -
Language and Production: A Critique of the Paradigms by Gyorgy Markus 9789401085328
Booksplease Price: £92.17In Language and Production, Gyorgy Markus presents us with a pro found critique of contemporary social theory: of the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; of the philosophy of language;... -
Farewell to Reason by Paul K. Feyerabend
Booksplease Price: £22.61Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of "progress" and "development," whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now... -
Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy: Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education by Mark Olssen 9780415882637
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08The Credit Crunch of 2008 has exposed the fallacies of neoliberalism and its thesis of the self-regulating market, which has been ascendant in both economic theory and policy over the last 30 years... -
Socialism-The Tragedy of an Idea: Possible? Inevitable? Desirable? by Lajos Bokros 9783030578459
Booksplease Price: £90.72This book explores the idea of socialism from three angles and raises the questions if socialism is possible, inevitable, and desirable. Socialism as an economic and societal system was possible... -
A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution, and Chaos by Alexander J. Argyros 9780472750085
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £34.94Recent developments in a range of disciplines, from high-energy physics to biogenetic anthropology, suggest a stunningly beautiful model of the cosmos. In A Blessed Rage for Order, Alexander Argyros... -
Roots in the Air: A Philosophical Autobiography of a Philosopher, Artist, and Musician by Michael Krausz
Booksplease Price: £72.86By way of dialogues, Michael Krausz offers philosophical reflections about his life as philosopher, artist, and musician. He also rehearses his views about relativism, interpretation, creativity, and... -
Rheumatoid Arthritis and Proteus by Professor Alan Ebringer 9780857299499
Booksplease Price: £91.06Rheumatoid Arthritis and Proteus explores the idea that Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by a urinary tract infection as a result of Proteus bacteria. Rheumatoid arthritis is a severe, painful and... -
The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science 1945 to 2000: Logical Reconstructionism, Descriptivism, Normative Naturalism, and Foundationalism by John Losee 9781350169135
Booksplease Price: £35.83This book offers the reader a guide to the major philosophical approaches to science since World War Two. Considering the bases, arguments and conclusions of the four main movements - Logical... -
The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique by Adolf Grunbaum
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £24.30This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural... -
Popper and the Human Sciences by Gregory Currie 9789024731411
Booksplease Price: £91.68Although Sir Karl Popper's contributions to a number of diverse areas of philosophy are widely appreciated, serious criticism of his work has tended to focus on his philosophy of the natural sciences... -
Popper, Hayek and the Open Society by Calvin Hayes
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44This is the first book to compare Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek systematically, and critically assess their contribution to the political philosophy of the Open Society. Hayes compares and... -
Protein Toxin Structure by Michael W. Parker 9783662223543
Booksplease Price: £90.86Joseph E. Alouf "The empirical basis of objective science has thus nothing 'abso lute' about it. Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above... -
The Popper-Carnap Controversy by Alex C. Michalos 9789024751273
Booksplease Price: £46.281 In 1954 Karl Popper published an article attempting to show that the identification of the quantitative concept degree of confirmation with the quantitative concept degree of probability is a... -
Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society Volume 1 by Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti 9780367726348
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Investigating Karl Popper's philosophy of critical rationalism, Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society, Volume 1, explores a non-justificationist conception of critical reason and its... -
Paradigms in Cartography: An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries by Manfred Ferdinand Buchroithner 9783642388927
Booksplease Price: £90.56In this book the main trends, concepts and directions in cartography and mapping in modernism and post-modernism are reviewed. Philosophical and epistemological issues are analysed in cartography... -
Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult Keith Windschuttle 9781412806466
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of his era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies,... -
Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed? A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations Of Science by Richard C. Brown 9789812835246
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.72This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls "postmodern interpretations of science" (PIS) and the closely related "sociology of scientific knowledge" (SSK). This movement... -
Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai by Zoltan Balazs 9789637326011
RRP: £64.95Booksplease Price: £57.51Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive... -
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part XIV: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition: Orwell, Popper, Humboldt and Polanyi by Robert Leeson 9783319944111
Booksplease Price: £112.42This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek's (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four... -
Exploring the World of Human Practice: Readings in and about the Philosophy of Aurel Kolnai by Zoltán Balázs 9789639241978
Booksplease Price: £117.56Aurel Kolnai was born in Budapest, in 1900 and died in London, in 1973. He was, according to Karl Popper and the late Bernard Williams, one of the most original, provocative, and sensitive...