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Philosophy of science
Hardback. * Presents a definitive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of science. * Contains 15 newly--commissioned articles, all of which are written by internationally distinguished scholars. Editor(s): Machamer, Peter; Silberstein, Michael. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 186 x 26. Weight in Grams: 830.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631221074
- ISBN
- 9780631221074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.24
€ 154.24
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Floris Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863157752
- ISBN
- 9780863157752
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.46
€ 33.99
€ 24.46
Paperback. A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written Num Pages: 800 pages, integrated B&W diagrams and images; 4x8pp colour plates. BIC Classification: PDA; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 50. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474606455
- ISBN
- 9781474606455
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.65
€ 23.99
€ 16.65
Paperback. Considers how a culture of crisis management - what the author calls "the new chronic" - has come to dominate various aspects of contemporary life, from biomedicine to economics to politics. This title unravels the logic of the new chronic where people find themselves suspended in a space between life and death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 charts. BIC Classification: JHBZ; MBP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352280
- ISBN
- 9780822352280
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Paperback. How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who controls the new technologies, and how are moral and professional issues addressed during a time of global change? This work explores such questions of relevance in the current scientific climate. Editor(s): Marcus, George E. Series: Late Editions: Cultural Studies for the End of the Century S. Num Pages: 570 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: JHM; PDA; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 570
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226504445
- ISBN
- 9780226504445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.37
€ 47.99
€ 37.37
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107180833
- ISBN
- 9781107180833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.84
€ 120.84
Hardback. Num Pages: 177 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 177
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628088298
- ISBN
- 9781628088298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.27€ 129.43
€ 189.27
€ 129.43
Paperback. Editor(s): Callebaut, Werner. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 576 pages, 6 line drawings, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226091877
- ISBN
- 9780226091877
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Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 45.88
€ 53.24
€ 45.88
paperback. Series: Environmental Ethics & Science Policy Series. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; HPS; PDA; PDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780190603816
- ISBN
- 9780190603816
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Condition: New
€ 70.06
€ 70.06
Paperback. A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics in the subject likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The emphasis is on contemporary views and issues rather than on the history of metaphysics. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198752530
- ISBN
- 9780198752530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.90
€ 63.90
Paperback. Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. What we need to move forward in our understanding of human agency, this book argues, is a reform in the way we study ourselves and a long overdue break with traditional humanist thinking. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226137636
- ISBN
- 9780226137636
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.38
€ 46.99
€ 36.38
Paperback. The papers collected here focus on probabilistic causality, addressing topics such as the search for casual mechanisms, epistemic and metaphysical views of causality, Baesian nets and causal dependance, and causation in the special sciences. The emphasis is on stochastic processes, however. Editor(s): Galavotti, Maria Carla; Suppes, Patrick; Costantini, Domenico. Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes. Num Pages: 280 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HP; PBWL; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781575863221
- ISBN
- 9781575863221
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.05
€ 30.99
€ 24.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDA; PSAK; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231167499
- ISBN
- 9780231167499
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.30
€ 30.99
€ 22.30
Paperback. Canadian poet links cosmology, mythology, and the human heart in a range of poetic forms. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; HPJ; PDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772120912
- ISBN
- 9781772120912
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.88
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. This text presents an account of the argument between Thomas Hobbes and John Wallis, from the core mathematics to the broader issues. Their "battle of the books" illuminates the relationship between science and 17th-century debates over the limits of sovereign power and the existence of God. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 424 pages, 46 line drawings. BIC Classification: PBB; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226399003
- ISBN
- 9780226399003
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.13
€ 52.99
€ 41.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20. BIC Classification: HPCD; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801437649
- ISBN
- 9780801437649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.75
€ 91.75
Paperback. Editor(s): Kuhn, Michael; Okamoto, Kazumi. Num Pages: 306 pages, fig: 3, b&w, table: 13, b&w. BIC Classification: HPK; JHB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838205267
- ISBN
- 9783838205267
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.44
€ 26.99
€ 20.44
Hardcover. Tracing the roots of brutal 20th-century human experimentation and extermination to worldviews that dehumanize perpetrators and victims in distinctive ways, Vining finds a parallel between them and "total theory" - beautiful and helpful explanations through attention to system and process that claim to account for the universe and everything in it. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268043629
- ISBN
- 9780268043629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 28.46
€ 28.46
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Melrose Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911280972
- ISBN
- 9781911280972
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 310 pages, 2 black & white tables, 17 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; JHMC; JM; JP; KC; PDA; PDX; RGC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 33. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138675797
- ISBN
- 9781138675797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.23
€ 51.23
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138285224
- ISBN
- 9781138285224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.69
€ 186.69
Paperback. This work seeks to break down the barriers between science and religion, as well as between religions themselves, in order to extrapolate a comprehensive understanding of the science of meditation. It reveals ways of understanding the mystical and our search for wisdom in the modern world. Num Pages: 190 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: HRAB; PDA; VXA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217755
- ISBN
- 9780823217755
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Larson shows how the seemingly broad-based eugenics movement was in fact a series of distinct campaigns by small groups of determined individuals for legislation at the state level. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBD; JMU; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 175 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801855115
- ISBN
- 9780801855115
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.30
€ 35.99
€ 30.30
Paperback. In this introduction to philosophy of biology, Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths present both the science and the philosophical context necessary for a critical understanding of the debates shaping biology at the end of the 20th century. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 16 halftones, 25 line drawings, further reading. BIC Classification: PDA; PS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 722.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226773049
- ISBN
- 9780226773049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.74
€ 40.99
€ 31.74