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Philosophy of science

Paperback. "Clearly analyzing the narratives, myths, and controversies at play in modern science, The Art of Science is an engaging exercise in the social study of human creativity." - Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illust. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442600980
ISBN
9781442600980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.94

Paperback. This introduction to the philosophy of technology discusses its sources and uses. Tracing the changing meaning of "technology" from ancient times to the modern day, it identifies two important traditions of critical analysis of technology: the engineering approach and the humanities approach. Num Pages: 410 pages, 8 halftones, 4 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: PDA; TBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 644.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
410
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226531984
ISBN
9780226531984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.67

Paperback. Offers an account of how biologists discover mechanisms. Drawing on examples from across the life sciences and through the centuries, the authors compile a toolbox of strategies that biologists have used and will use again to reveal the mechanisms that produce, underlie, or maintain the phenomena characteristic of living things. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: PDA; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226039794
ISBN
9780226039794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.85

Hardcover. Offers an account of how biologists discover mechanisms. Drawing on examples from across the life sciences and through the centuries, the authors compile a toolbox of strategies that biologists have used and will use again to reveal the mechanisms that produce, underlie, or maintain the phenomena characteristic of living things. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: PDA; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226039657
ISBN
9780226039657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.73
€ 79.10

Paperback. The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 266. Series: Canto Classics. 182 pages. The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: PDA. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 10. Weight: 270.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
182
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107606142
ISBN
9781107606142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.06

Paperback. Building on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization of facts, or the creation of factishes. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 168 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. 168 pages, 4 illustrations. One of the leading figures in science studies offers a provocative look at the way science shatters the "fetishes" of magic and religion only to recreate other sorts of fetishes (factishes) in their place. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHMC; PDA. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight: 254.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348252
ISBN
9780822348252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.25

Paperback. A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, 'Politics of Nature' establishes the conceptual context for political ecology - transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 line illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013476
ISBN
9780674013476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

hardcover. This is a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: PBB; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 147 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804721271
ISBN
9780804721271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.97

Paperback. Presents the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum ..the Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342007
ISBN
9780822342007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. This is a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: PBB; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721288
ISBN
9780804721288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. .
Publisher
Floris Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863155963
ISBN
9780863155963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.21

paperback. Explores the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power of nature that science affords and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from different forms of science. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 132 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415474627
ISBN
9780415474627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages. BIC Classification: PDA; TB. Dimension: 211 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789461537447
ISBN
9789461537447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 520 pages, 3 line illus. BIC Classification: HPCF; PDA; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 35. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
520
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691158068
ISBN
9780691158068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. This new book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748620234
ISBN
9780748620234
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.25
€ 125.17

Hardback. Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, this title introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Series: Columbia Series in Science and Religion. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141505
ISBN
9780231141505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.89
€ 64.07

Hardback. Exploring what two foundational figures, Plato and Aristotle, have to say about the nature of human awareness and understanding, Aryeh Kosman concludes that ultimately the virtues of thought are to be found in the joys and satisfactions that come from thinking philosophically, whether we engage in it ourselves or witness others' participation. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPM; HPQ; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674730809
ISBN
9780674730809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.88
€ 58.69

Paperback. .
Publisher
Melrose Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911280972
ISBN
9781911280972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Editor(s): Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt; Bubandt, Nils; Gan, Elaine; Swanson, Heather Anne. Num Pages: 368 pages, 57. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 228 x 51. .
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
3rd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781517902377
ISBN
9781517902377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138920736
ISBN
9781138920736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.74

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