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Inference to the Best Explanation by Peter Lipton 9780415242035
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking... -
A Theory of Understanding: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives by David Chart 9781138737167
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $231.84This title was first published in 2000. Philosophers have been greatly concerned with the nature of explanation, but no account has been fully satisfactory within science or plausible in the wider... -
A Theory of Understanding: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives by David Chart 9781138737129
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $65.50This title was first published in 2000. Philosophers have been greatly concerned with the nature of explanation, but no account has been fully satisfactory within science or plausible in the wider... -
Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century: Four Central Themes Donald Gillies (Late of Kings College, London) 9780631183587
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $76.15This 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... -
Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief by Colin Howson 9780198250388
RRP: $93.43Booksplease Price: $85.58Colin Howson offers a solution to one of the central, unsolved problems of Western philosophy, the problem of induction. In the mid-eighteenth century David Hume argued that successful prediction... -
Evidence by Andrew Bell 9780521710190
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $41.12Eight distinguished experts from a wide range of disciplines consider the nature and the use of evidence in the modern world. Peter Lipton begins the book by analysing evidence in general... -
Scientific Perspectivism by Ronald N. Giere
Booksplease Price: $52.08Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. But "Scientific Perspectivism" argues that the acts of observing and theorizing are both matters of perspective - which makes... -
Holism and the Understanding of Science: Integrating the Analytical, Historical and Sociological by Louis Caruana 9781138734913
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64This title was first published in 2000: This book addresses issues which are central in the philosophy of science, exploring a large and relevant literature. It should be of broad interest in the... -
Explaining Explanation David-Hillel Ruben 9781612050683
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78This 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... -
Philosophy of Physics by Lawrence Sklar 9780198751380
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $87.89The systematic study of the physical world had its orgins in philosophy; two-and-a-half millennia later, the scientific advances of the twentieth century are bringing the two fields closer together... -
Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation by Douglas Ehring 9780195107944
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $127.43Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual... -
Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolutions by Wes Sharrock 9780745619286
Booksplease Price: $117.87Thomas Kuhn's shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern classic. His influence on philosophy, social science,... -
Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolutions by Wes Sharrock 9780745619293
Booksplease Price: $41.39Thomas Kuhn's shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern classic. His influence on philosophy, social science,... -
The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview by Thomas S. Kuhn
Booksplease Price: $59.96Thomas Kuhn will undoubtedly be remembered primarily for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a book that introduced one of the most influential conceptions of scientific progress to emerge... -
Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction by Helen Anne Curry 9780520307698
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity. Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century,... -
Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon 9780198831020
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious... -
Worlds of Natural History Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge) 9781316510315
RRP: $270.90Booksplease Price: $251.54From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have long sparked wonder, curiosity and delight. Written by leading scholars,... -
Worlds of Natural History by Helen Anne Curry
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $90.13From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have long sparked wonder, curiosity and delight. Written by leading scholars,... -
Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America by Helen Anne Curry
Booksplease Price: $67.83Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray machines,...