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Simplicity by Elliott Sober 9780198244073
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $119.70Attempts to show that the simplicity of a hypothesis can be measured by attending to how well it answers certain kinds of questions.Book InformationISBN 9780198244073Author Elliott SoberFormat... -
Philosophy Of Biology Elliott Sober 9780813391267
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.98Perhaps 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: $85.13Booksplease Price: $81.41Writtten 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: $25.44This 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: $90.29Booksplease Price: $80.10In 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
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $108.09How 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
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.65Ockham'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: $71.09Apologies 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 SoberFormat... -
Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual by Elliott Sober 9781107068490
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $111.51Ockham'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
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.67How 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: $37.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262691444Author Elliott SoberFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities by Elliott Sober 9781009376051
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $80.66Natural 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... -
The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus by Elliott Sober 9780226767482
Booksplease Price: $42.88The 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: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.51Natural 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: $56.70Booksplease Price: $47.03No 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... -
From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy by Elliott Sober 9780521477536
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $44.67Elliott 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $20.59Is 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: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52This 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: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96This 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: $20.00Booksplease Price: $19.10David 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"... -
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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: $58.05Booksplease Price: $57.78Philosophers 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
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $49.38This 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
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $108.09This 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $25.54Bayes'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
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $100.09The 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... -
Adaptationism and Optimality by Steven Hecht Orzack 9780521598361
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.67The 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: $28.48Reconstructing 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: $26.32Biologists 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... -
Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography by Aviezer Tucker 9780521120777
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $52.86How 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 of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms
Booksplease Price: $27.41In 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: $51.59Booksplease Price: $46.80This 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
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $96.27In 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,... -
Likelihood by A. W. F. Edwards
Booksplease Price: $37.50This 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 William E. Mann (Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Vermont) 9780631221296
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $47.16The 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 9780521781701
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $74.96The 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 by William E. Mann 9780631221289
RRP: $145.71Booksplease Price: $130.51The 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: $31.54The 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... -
Evolution and the Levels of Selection by Samir Okasha 9780199556717
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $51.14Does 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... -
Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography by Aviezer Tucker 9780521834155
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $116.09How 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... -
The Biological Mind: A Philosophical Introduction by Justin Garson
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.29For 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...