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The Structure and Development of Science by G. Radnitzky 9789027709943
Booksplease Price: €109.93TIus is the second, and fmal, volume to derive from the exciting Kronberg conference of 1975, and to show the intelligent editorial care of Gerard Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson that was so evident... -
Feyerabend and Scientific Values: Tightrope-Walking Rationality by Robert P. Farrell 9781402013508
Booksplease Price: €109.36Every philosopher of science, and every student of the philosophy of science, has heard of Paul Feyerabend: the iconoclast who supposedly asserted that science is not rational, nor objective, but is... -
Killing Time: Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend by Paul K. Feyerabend 9780226245324
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €20.23Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, this autobiography traces the trajectory that led Feyerabend from an isolated, lower-middle-class childhood in Vienna to the height of international... -
Education for a Free Society: Paul Feyerabend and the Pedagogy of Irritation by Karsten Kenklies 9781636676975
RRP: €91.63Booksplease Price: €81.29Paul Feyerabend was one of the most influential forces that changed the intellectual world in the second half of the 20th century. Based on his intimate knowledge of the history and of the... -
Education for a Free Society: Paul Feyerabend and the Pedagogy of Irritation by Karsten Kenklies 9781636676944
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €31.08Paul Feyerabend was one of the most influential forces that changed the intellectual world in the second half of the 20th century. Based on his intimate knowledge of the history and of the... -
Roads to Commensurability by D. Pearce 9789401081801
Booksplease Price: €108.90How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble dnd light, You may get there by candle-light. Any philosopher who takes... -
The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries.: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism by Jutta Manninen 9789048136827
Booksplease Price: €110.06The rise of scientific (analytic) philosophy since the turn of the twentieth century is linked to the philosophical interaction between, on the one hand, Ernst Mach, the Vienna Circle around Moritz... -
Between Rationalism and Empiricism: Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics by Erhard Scheibe 9780387985206
Booksplease Price: €108.72Erhard Scheibe is one of the most outstanding German philosophers of science. He has written extensively on all the problems that confront the philosophy of mathematics and physics: rationalism... -
The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries.: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism by Juha Manninen 9789400730625
Booksplease Price: €109.29The rise of scientific (analytic) philosophy since the turn of the twentieth century is linked to the philosophical interaction between, on the one hand, Ernst Mach, the Vienna Circle around Moritz... -
Roads to Commensurability by D. Pearce 9789027724144
Booksplease Price: €109.36How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble dnd light, You may get there by candle-light. Any philosopher who takes... -
Popper and His Popular Critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos by Joseph Agassi 9783319065861
RRP: €73.77Booksplease Price: €66.78This volume examines Popper's philosophy by analyzing the criticism of his most popular critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. They all followed his rejection of the traditional view... -
The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics by Vittorio Hoesle
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €113.41No overall history of the philosophical dialogue has appeared since Rudolf Hirzel's two-volume study was published in 1895. In The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics, Vittorio... -
The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics by Vittorio Hosle
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30No overall history of the philosophical dialogue has appeared since Rudolf Hirzel's two-volume study was published in 1895. In The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics, Vittorio... -
Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems by Andrew Joron 9780872865303
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.14Since his post-9/11 essay "The Emergency," Andrew Joron has been regarded as one of American poetry's most profound practitioners. Trance Archive draws on over twenty years of Joron's work, from his... -
Humanising Science and Medicine: Critical Paradigmatic Conversations Richard House 9781915594082
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €27.05Twelve in-depth interviews with philosophers, psychologists, medical doctors and independent researchers interrogate the phenomenon of science per se, and modern medical bioscience in particular -... -
Feyerabend’s Formative Years. Volume 2. Feyerabend on Logical Empiricism, Bohm & Kuhn: Correspondence and Unpublished Papers Matteo Collodel 9783031575181
Booksplease Price: €133.42The authors Matteo Collodel and Eric Oberheim take the reader on a journey through the early life of the famous Austrian philosopher Paul Feyerabend, whose groundbreaking work Against the Method... -
Feyerabend's Epistemological Anarchism: How Science Works and its Importance for Science Education by Mansoor Niaz 9783030368616
Booksplease Price: €107.96This book argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer of science. It shows how Feyerabend presented a vision of science... -
European Philosophy of Science - Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage by Maria Carla Galavotti 9783319033648
Booksplease Price: €110.02This volume combines the theoretical and historical perspective focusing on the specific features of a European philosophy of science. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Institute Vienna... -
Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness by Paul K. Feyerabend
Booksplease Price: €29.51From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in painting, Paul Feyerabend revelled in the physical and cultural abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human... -
Science in a Free Society by Paul K. Feyerabend 9780860917533
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.76No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend's Against Method. In this work, Feyerabend reviews that controversy, and extends his critique beyond... -
The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity by Marcello Pera
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €49.60How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera... -
The Sentimental Education of the Novel by Margaret Cohen
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €50.09The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. And it is true that... -
The Incommensurability Thesis by Howard Sankey 9780367261894
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €38.53Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The book examines the theory that different... -
The Incommensurability Thesis by Howard Sankey 9780367261863
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €127.37Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The book examines the theory that different... -
Farewell to Reason by Paul K. Feyerabend
Booksplease Price: €26.33Farewell 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... -
Scientific Revolutions by Ian Hacking 9780198750512
Booksplease Price: €77.21Bringing together important writings not easily available elsewhere, this volume provides a convenient and stimulating overview of recent work in the philosophy of science. The contributors include... -
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Professor Stuart Sim
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.59Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern... -
Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays by Karim Bschir
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €30.84This collection of new essays interprets and critically evaluates the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism,... -
Contradiction Set Free by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt 9781350079786
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €36.58First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit fur den Widerspruch), reflects the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained momentum in the... -
Feyerabend: Philosophy, Science and Society John Preston (University of Reading) 9780745616766
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.29This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science. The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's... -
The Tyranny of Science by Paul K. Feyerabend 9780745651897
Booksplease Price: €55.09Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In this new book he masterfully weaves together the main... -
Heidegger's Concept of Science by Paul Goldberg 9781009523554
Booksplease Price: €66.79This Element argues that Heidegger's concept of science has two core features. Heidegger critiques a security-oriented concept of science, which he associates with the dominance of physics in modern... -
Philosophy of Nature Paul K. Feyerabend (University of California at Berkeley, and Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich) 9780745651590
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €63.78Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic. Yet it is not well known that... -
The Tyranny of Science Paul K. Feyerabend (University of California at Berkeley, and Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich) 9780745651903
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.68Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In this new book he masterfully weaves together the main... -
Philosophy of Nature by Paul K. Feyerabend 9780745651606
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.30Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic. Yet it is not well known that... -
Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences: The Critical Background to Modern Science, 1800-1905 by Colin Howson 9780521113083
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €44.55First published in 1976, this is a volume of studies on the problems of theory-appraisal in the physical sciences - how and why important theories are developed, changed and are replaced, and by what... -
To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation by Steve Fuller 9783031760167
Booksplease Price: €133.42This book argues that judging and justifying are the two skills that specifically require academic training. In the current times, where the value of a university degree is increasingly questioned,... -
Heidegger's Concept of Science Paul Goldberg 9781009523530
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €19.66This Element argues that Heidegger's concept of science has two core features. Heidegger critiques a security-oriented concept of science, which he associates with the dominance of physics in modern... -
Knowledge, Science and Relativism by P.K. Feyerabend 9780521057271
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €48.77This 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... -
Feyerabend's Philosophy by Eric Oberheim 9783110189070
RRP: €151.13Booksplease Price: €97.56Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This reconstruction of his developing ideas combines historical and systematic...