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Has science proved that free will is an illusion? Some people say yes, citing experiments in neuroscience and psychology. The answer defended here is an emphatic no. Philosopher Alfred R.…
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Free
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Rethinking Psychology
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Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can answer any question we choose to put to it ߝ even the most fundamental about ourselves, our behaviour and our…
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Science and Poetry
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A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader represents a cooperative effort to provide an introduction to the…
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Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
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Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality. But that was just the beginning. In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine’s…
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Beyond Biocentrism
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Professor Richard Dawkins has teamed up with renowned illustrator Dave McKean to take you on an amazing journey from atoms to animals, pollination to paranoia, the big bang to the…
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The Magic of Reality
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Scholars from disciplines as diverse as political science and art history have offered widely differing interpretations of Kuhn's ideas, appropriating his notions of paradigm shifts and revolutions to fit their…
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Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions
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Dr. Bronowski's classic history of humankind. Dr. Jacob Bronowski's groundbreaking book The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through its understanding of science. First published in 1973,…
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The Ascent of Man
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Explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution and uncertainty principle. This book reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of…
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Physics and Philosophy
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Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of…
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Cosmology is in crisis. In this book, philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger and physicist Lee Smolin, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution in our cosmological…
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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time
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In the The Undivided Universe, David Bohn and Basil Hiley present a radically different approach to quantum theory. They develop an interpretation of quantum mechanics which gives a clear, intuitive…
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The Undivided Universe
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science
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Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and…
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Meeting the Universe Halfway
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Covering some of science's most divisive topics, such as philosophical issues in genetics and evolution, the philosophy of biology also encompasses more traditional philosophical questions, such as free will, essentialism,…
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Philosophy of Biology: A Very Short Introduction
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a 'beautiful and important book'…
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What is Life?
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Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying…
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Conjectures and Refutations
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A text of the philosophical movement of critical realism.
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A Realist Theory of Science
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Peter Vickers examines 'inconsistent theories' in the history of science-theories which, though contradictory, are held to be extremely useful. He argues that these 'theories' are actually significantly different entities, and…
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Understanding Inconsistent Science
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The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions…
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Philosophy of Technology
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This volume of original essays surveys recent challenges to the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution that arise from empirical advances in the understanding of evolution since the advent of the…
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Challenging the Modern Synthesis
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Mark Wilson explores our strategies for understanding the world. We frequently cannot reason about nature in the straightforward manner we anticipate, but must use alternative thought processes that reach useful…
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Physics Avoidance
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Twenty philosophers offer new essays examining the form of reasoning known as inference to the best explanation - widely used in science and in our everyday lives, yet still controversial.…
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Best Explanations
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Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying…
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Conjectures and Refutations
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Aha!
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
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What is science? Is it uniquely equipped to deliver universal truths? Or is it one of many disciplines - art, literature, religion - that offer different forms of understanding? In…
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The Meaning of Science
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