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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... -
Islam, Modernity and a New Millennium: Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam by Ali Paya 9780367887490
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51As the world becomes increasingly globalised Islam faces some important choices. Does it seek to "modernise" in line with the cultures in which it is practised, or does it retain its traditions even... -
German Science by Pierre Duhem 9780812691245
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.65Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) is a major influence in twentieth-century thought, a source for many of the ideas of the Vienna circle, Karl Popper, Imre Kalatos, and Thomas S. Kuhn. Yet Duhem's arguments... -
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... -
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... -
The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader: Writings on Critical Thinking by Markar Melkonian 9781350073739
Booksplease Price: £86.73What might common sense be? Is it a mental capacity? Or does it consist of just truisms and precepts? If the latter is the case, is this knowledge innate or empirical? Or is it like "human... -
Paradigms in Cartography: An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries by Pablo Ivan Azocar Fernandez 9783642447549
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... -
The Myth of the Closed Mind: Understanding Why and How People Are Rational by Ray Scott Percival 9780812696851
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.47"It's like talking to a brick wall" and "We'll have to agree to disagree" are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach... -
Central Works of Philosophy v4: Twentieth Century: Moore to Popper John Shand 9781844650194
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99"Central Works of Philosophy" is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's "Republic" to the present day, the five volumes range... -
Towards a Sociology of the Open Society: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society Volume 2 by Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti 9781032378640
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book applies the general theory of critical rationalism in order to develop a new sociology of the open society, in general, and a new analysis of the transition from a closed society to an open... -
Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist by M. H. Salmon 9789400994065
Booksplease Price: £91.36Logical empiricism - not to be confused with logical positivism (see pp. 40-44) - is a movement which has left an indelible mark on twentieth century philosophy; Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) was one... -
After the Avant-Gardes by Elizabeth Millan 9780812698923
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.80After the Avant-Gardes is a rallying call for all those who challenge artistic modernism. This is a collection of ten provocative essays on the arts by writers of varied orientations who share a... -
A Study on Authority by Herbert Marcuse
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.39This is the first paperback edition of what is now recognized as Marcuse's most important collection of writings on philosophy. He analyzes and attacks some of the main intellectual currents of... -
Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency Menachem Fisch 9780226514512
Booksplease Price: £32.30Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to... -
Marxism and Epistemology: Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault by Dominique Lecourt
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.43When this book was first published in English in 1975, the previous forty years had seen the emergence of a new tradition in the philosophy of the sciences, or 'epistemology' in France. The founder... -
Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation: From Philosophy to Religion by 9780367533076
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded... -
Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge: A Historical Outline of Aims and Tensions by Michael Segre
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensions between the aims of higher education and... -
Popper's Legacy: Rethinking Politics, Economics and Science by Raphael Sassower 9781844650668
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40The work of Karl Popper has had extraordinary influence across the fields of scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he... -
A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography: The History of My Pursuit of a Few Ideas by Edward Shils 9781138507180
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his death in 1995 and never before published, Shils... -
Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation: From Philosophy to Religion by Anthony O'Hear
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.97This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded... -
Popper's Legacy: Rethinking Politics, Economics and Science by Raphael Sassower
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The work of Karl Popper has had extraordinary influence across the fields of scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he... -
Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency by Menachem Fisch
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £93.24Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to... -
Price and Financial Stability: Rethinking Financial Markets by David Harrison
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Why are financial prices so much more crisis-prone and unstable than real economy prices? Because they are doing different things. Unlike real economy prices, rooted in the real goods and services... -
Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist by M. H. Salmon 9789027709585
Booksplease Price: £92.96Logical empiricism - not to be confused with logical positivism (see pp. 40-44) - is a movement which has left an indelible mark on twentieth century philosophy; Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) was one... -
Myth Theorized Robert Alan Segal 9781781798638
Booksplease Price: £75.81Myth Theorized provides a survey of some key figures and topics in the modern study of myth. The first part of the book discusses the psychoanalysis of myth including a chapter on the extraordinary... -
Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy by F. A. Hayek
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.99With a new foreword by Paul Kelly 'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of political philosophy' - Sir Karl Popper 'This promises to be the crowning work... -
Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates by Jeffrey Bub 9780198817840
Booksplease Price: £19.71What on earth do bananas have to do with quantum mechanics? From a modern perspective, quantum mechanics is about strangely counterintuitive correlations between separated systems, which can be... -
Preston King: History, Toleration, and Friendship by Kipton E. Jensen 9781433190902
RRP: £74.50Booksplease Price: £66.16This volume celebrates the remarkable career of Dr. Preston King, an African American political philosopher with an international reputation. King's first degree was from Fisk University (1956). He... -
Scientism as Pseudoscience: On Ideology Critique and the Demarcation Problem Simon Skempton 9783032150189
Booksplease Price: £81.46This book provides a historical overview of philosophical debates about the distinction between science and pseudo-science, and a demonstration of how the Western Marxist tradition's notion of the... -
The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.64'I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell', writes Michael Polanyi, whose work paved the way for the likes of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper... -
The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science 1945 to 2000 by John Losee 9781350071513
Booksplease Price: £122.35This 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... -
Out of Error: Further Essays on Critical Rationalism David Miller 9781138251786
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.19If there has been some modest advance, since Karl Popper's death in 1994, in the general understanding of his critical rationalist theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, there is still... -
Myth Theorized by Robert Alan Segal 9781781798645
Booksplease Price: £25.31Myth Theorized provides a survey of some key figures and topics in the modern study of myth. The first part of the book discusses the psychoanalysis of myth including a chapter on the extraordinary... -
Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Talent by Joe E. Barnhart 9780761830986
Booksplease Price: £56.66This book illuminates the connectedness of Dostoevsky's literary art with his philosophical and psychological brilliance. Two Fyodor Dostoevsky conferences originating at the University of North... -
Righting Epistemology: Hume's Revolution by Bredo Johnsen 9780190662776
Booksplease Price: £78.70David Hume launched a historic revolution in epistemology when he showed that our theories about the world have no probability relative to what we think of as our evidence for them, hence that the... -
Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics by Tony McEnery 9781107624689
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.15How might evidence of language use - writing and speech - be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It...