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Philosophy Of Biology Elliott Sober 9780813391267
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $102.26Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of the ?special? sciences... -
Core Questions in Philosophy by Elliott Sober
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $123.06Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to... -
The Design Argument by Elliott Sober 9781108457422
Booksplease Price: $38.45This Element analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take, but the main focus is on two such arguments. The first concerns the complex adaptive features that... -
Core Questions in Philosophy Elliott Sober 9781032794259
RRP: $136.48Booksplease Price: $121.08In this 9th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy, Elliott Sober and Joel Velasco use an engaging lecture-style format to show students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds... -
Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science by Elliott Sober
Booksplease Price: $181.04How 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... -
Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual by Elliott Sober 9781107692534
Booksplease Price: $53.82Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in... -
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology by Elliott Sober 9780262693387
Booksplease Price: $107.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780262693387Author Elliott Sober -
Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual by Elliott Sober 9781107068490
Booksplease Price: $186.79Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in... -
Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science by Elliott Sober 9780521692748
Booksplease Price: $69.75How 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... -
Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference by Elliott Sober 9780262691444
Booksplease Price: $57.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262691444Author Elliott SoberFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities by Elliott Sober 9781009376051
Booksplease Price: $134.98Natural selection, mutation, and adaptation are well-known and central topics in Darwin's theory of evolution and in the 20th - and 21st -century theories which grew out of it, but many other... -
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliott Sober 9780674930476
RRP: $85.70Booksplease Price: $71.10No 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... -
The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus by Elliott Sober 9780226767482
Booksplease Price: $64.82The 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... -
The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities by Elliott Sober 9781009376013
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $36.54Natural selection, mutation, and adaptation are well-known and central topics in Darwin's theory of evolution and in the 20th - and 21st -century theories which grew out of it, but many other... -
From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy by Elliott Sober 9780521477536
Booksplease Price: $78.76Elliott Sober is one of the leading philosophers of science and is a former winner of the Lakatos Prize, the major award in the field. This new collection of essays will appeal to a readership that... -
Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory by Elliott Sober 9781616142308
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $30.95Is it accurate to label Darwin's theory "the theory of evolution by natural selection," given that the concept of common ancestry is at least as central to Darwin's theory? Did Darwin reject the idea... -
Philosophy of Biology by Peter Godfrey-Smith 9780691140018
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $56.59This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both, the... -
Philosophy of Biology by Peter Godfrey-Smith
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $41.73This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both, the... -
The Loftus Delusion: Why Atheism Fails and Messianic Israelism Prevails by David Reuben Stone 9780557320639
RRP: $30.23Booksplease Price: $28.88David Reuben Stone has published the definitive critique of the anti-Biblical atheism of John W. Loftus. Also included: 1. New mathematical proof of Wagner's "Modus Tollens Probabilized" theorem. 2... -
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Taking the Naturalistic Turn, or, How Real Philosophy of Science is Done: Conversations with William Bechtel ... [et al.] by Werner Callebaut
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $87.34Philosophers of science traditionally have ignored the details of scientific research, and the result has often been theories that lack relevance either to science or to philosophy in general. In... -
How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic by George A. Reisch
Booksplease Price: $87.01This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold War. It documents the political vitality of... -
How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic by George A. Reisch 9780521837972
Booksplease Price: $181.04This intriguing and ground-breaking book is the first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science in the United States during the Cold War. It documents the political vitality of... -
Bayes's Theorem by Richard Swinburne 9780197263419
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $38.61Bayes's theorem is a tool for assessing how probable evidence makes some hypothesis. The papers in this volume consider the worth and applicability of the theorem. Richard Swinburne sets out the... -
Adaptationism and Optimality by Steven Hecht Orzack 9780521598361
Booksplease Price: $69.75The debate over the relative importance of natural selection as compared to other forces affecting the evolution of organisms is a long-standing and central controversy in evolutionary biology. The... -
Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History by Erik Olin Wright
Booksplease Price: $43.06Reconstructing Marxism explores fundamental questions about the structure of Marxist theory and its prospects for the future. The authors maintain that the disintegration of the old theoretical unity... -
Philosophy of Biology by Michael Ruse 9781591025276
Booksplease Price: $40.38Biologists study life in its various physical forms, while philosophers of biology seek answers to questions about the nature, purpose, and impact of this research. What permits us to distinguish... -
Adaptationism and Optimality by Steven Hecht Orzack
Booksplease Price: $167.60The debate over the relative importance of natural selection as compared to other forces affecting the evolution of organisms is a long-standing and central controversy in evolutionary biology. The... -
Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms
Booksplease Price: $48.05In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice,... -
Explaining Explanation David-Hillel Ruben 9781612050683
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08This second edition of David-Hillel Ruben's influential and highly acclaimed book on the philosophy of explanation has been revised and expanded, and the author has made substantial changes in light... -
Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms 9781107077287
Booksplease Price: $161.27In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice,... -
Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography by Aviezer Tucker 9780521120777
Booksplease Price: $88.35How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical... -
Likelihood by A. W. F. Edwards
Booksplease Price: $56.69This new and expanded edition of A. W. F. Edwards' classic volume on scientific inference presents his most important published articles on the subject. Edwards argues that the appropriate axiomatic... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion by William E. Mann 9780631221289
RRP: $220.25Booksplease Price: $197.28The 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 Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy by Marc Ereshefsky 9780521038836
Booksplease Price: $52.47The question of whether biologists should continue to use the Linnaean hierarchy has been a hotly debated issue. Invented before the introduction of evolutionary theory, Linnaeus's system of... -
The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy by Marc Ereshefsky 9780521781701
Booksplease Price: $125.39The question of whether biologists should continue to use the Linnaean hierarchy has been a hotly debated issue. Invented before the introduction of evolutionary theory, Linnaeus's system of... -
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: $75.95Booksplease Price: $71.29The 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 Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition by Lawrence Shapiro (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) 9781032345147
RRP: $105.28Booksplease Price: $93.95Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition is an... -
Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography by Aviezer Tucker 9780521834155
Booksplease Price: $194.47How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical... -
Evolution and the Levels of Selection by Samir Okasha 9780199556717
Booksplease Price: $121.88Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? Samir Okasha provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate in evolutionary biology over the... -
The Biological Mind: A Philosophical Introduction by Justin Garson
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08For some, biology explains all there is to know about the mind. Yet many big questions remain: Is the mind shaped by genes or the environment? If mental traits are the result of adaptations built up...