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Philosophy of science

hardcover. Aspall's commentary on Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introduction of Aristotelianism to Oxford in the mid-13th century is edited in Latin with English translation. Editor(s): Donati, Sylvia. Series: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi. Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Edition
Translation
Number of pages
550
Condition
New
SKU
V9780197266007
ISBN
9780197266007
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.00

Hardcover. In The Paradox of Progress, Nicholas Agar challenges the central claims of 'radical optimism': that technological progress will automatically make us happier and healthier. Using recent psychological studies about human well-being, he instead presents a more realistic approach to understand the positive and negative issues that progress brings. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: PDA; PDR; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
OUP Oxford New York
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198717058
ISBN
9780198717058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.00

hardcover. We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, and abilities-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. This volume presents new work on the nature of causal powers, and their connections with other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. Editor(s): Jacobs, Jonathan D. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198796572
ISBN
9780198796572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.29

hardcover. The 'Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science' offers an overview of the field of science and its development over the past few generations, ranging from biographies on Galileo and Dorothy Hodgkin to the discussions chronicling the change of science from simply a tool of learning to a major force in society. Editor(s): Heilbron, John L. Num Pages: 994 pages, numerous halftones and figures and 8 pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 3J; GB; PDA; PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 188 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1551.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Academic United States
Number of pages
994
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780195112290
ISBN
9780195112290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.78

hardcover. This book breaks new ground by drawing attention to certain kinds of biases that permeate many parts of science and by developing a theory of how to correct for these biases. Series: Studies in Philosphy: Outstanding Diessertations. Num Pages: 240 pages, references. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Routledge United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415938587
ISBN
9780415938587
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.15

This is the first volume of original commissioned papers on the subject of Newton and empiricism. The chapters, contributed by a leading team of both established and younger international scholars, explore the nature and extent of Newton's relationship to a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. Editor(s): Biener, Zvi; Schliesser, Eric. Num Pages: 384 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: HBLH; HPCD1; JFCX; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 242 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199337095
ISBN
9780199337095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.46

Paperback. This is the definitive guide to what's going on in philosophy. Distinguished scholars contribute incisive and up-to-date critical surveys of the principal areas: moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of the sciences. Editor(s): Jackson, Frank; Smith, Michael. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy. Num Pages: 918 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
918
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199234769
ISBN
9780199234769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.06

Paperback. *John L Casti has created a fascinating, genre-bending book an accessible novel of ideas which explores the fundamental nature of mind and machine. Num Pages: 208 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349108537
ISBN
9780349108537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.31

hardcover. The interplay of literature and physics that led to acceptance of the theory of relativity Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJH; DS; PDA; PHH; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032433
ISBN
9780472111749
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. Editor(s): Cohen, Robert S.; Schnelle, Thomas. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 501 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 879. Volume 87 only. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Springer
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032551
ISBN
9789027719027
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Philosophy, Science, and Technology in the Middle Ages - September 1973 Editor(s): Murdoch, J.E.; Sylla, E.D. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 582 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 995. Volume XXVI only. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
D. Reidel Publishing Company
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032601
ISBN
9789027705600
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. This 1998 book breathes new life into classical design arguments, showing how incomplete undirected causes are for science. Series Editor(s): Skyrms, Brian; Adams, Ernest W.; Binmore, Ken; Butterfield, Jeremy; Diaconis, Persi; Harper, William L.; Harsanyi, John; Jeffrey, Richard C.; Spohn, Wolfgang. Series: Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages, notes, references. BIC Classification: HPL; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 525. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032675
ISBN
9780521623872
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa, Italy, September 4-8, 1978 Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Editor(s): Hintikka, Jaakko; Gruender, D.; Agazzi, Evandro. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708. Volume I only. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Lacking dj, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
D. Reidel Publishing Company
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032685
ISBN
9789027711267
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was enabled by crucial rhetorical "softwares." Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: PDA; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032727
ISBN
9780804727655
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. This book, first published in 2000, explores a range of diverse issues in the intersection of biology and epistemology. Editor(s): Creath, Richard; Maienschein, Jane. Series Editor(s): Ruse, Michael. Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Num Pages: 316 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPS; PDA; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032728
ISBN
9780521597012
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? This book seeks to provide answers to these fundamental questions. It begins with the question of what methodology might mean and explores the notions of values, rules and principles. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Routledge
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032733
ISBN
9781844650859
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. Scientific naturalism, or scientism, is the theory that science has all the answers. This book argues that not all philosophical explanations can be reduced to scientific ones. Refuting support for scientism, it suggests that reliabilist and causal theories of epistemic justification are unsound. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Open Court
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032768
ISBN
9780812693805
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. This book brings together essays by one of the pre-eminent scholars of informal logic. Num Pages: 478 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPL; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 646. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032772
ISBN
9780521618533
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. Presents an interdisciplinary reference work suitable for students and researchers concerned with the nature of knowledge. This book consists of 42 alphabetically arranged entries on key concepts at the intersection of philosophy and sociology - what used to be called "sociology of knowledge" but is now increasingly called "social epistemology". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JHBA; PDA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 211 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Routledge
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032779
ISBN
9781844650989
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. This book presents an ardent defence of Darwin's theory of evolution, exploring recent controversies such as Creationism. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 650. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032840
ISBN
9780521829472
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. A systematic, carefully reasoned, but non-technical analysis of the nature and significance of scientific knowledge. Num Pages: 412 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDA; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 35. Weight in Grams: 766. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032863
ISBN
9780521772297
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. This treatise on the question of knowledge challenges readers to re-examine the protective barriers built to isolate "science" from other forms of enquiry. The author shows her concern with the plight of education and institutionalized knowledge, and the fate of learning in the future. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Routledge
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033293
ISBN
9780415028301
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

paperback. This text sytematically attacks the 20th-century ideal of scientific unity by showing how its underlying assumptions are at odds with the central conclusions of science itself. It proposes in its place a metaphysics much more in keeping with what science reveals to the observer about the world. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033295
ISBN
9780674212619
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

hardcover. Editor(s): Forge, J. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 699. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
D. Reidel Publishing Company
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033398
ISBN
9789027725424
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

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