Philosophy of science
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Philosophy of science
Paperback. Thought-provoking and controversial, Lawless Universe is a complement to, even an antidote for, books that create the misimpression that science can explain everything. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: PDA; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801895814
- ISBN
- 9780801895814
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.19
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Paperback. Using game theory and examples of actual games people play, this work shows how the elements of chance and rules underlie all that happens in the universe, from genetic behavior through economic growth to the composition of music. It also presents games derived from scientific models for equilibrium, selection, growth, and the composition of RNA. Translator(s): Kimber, Robert B.; Kimber, Rita. Series: Princeton Science Library. Num Pages: 368 pages, 67 figs., 41 in color. BIC Classification: PBT; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- a
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025667
- ISBN
- 9780691025667
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€ 54.99€ 39.83
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Hardcover. Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, and even musician. But he was also a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method, but Capra's study of Leonardo's notebooks reveals that he was a systems thinker centuries before the term was coined. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA; PDZ; PSAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berrett-Koehler United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609949891
- ISBN
- 9781609949891
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€ 32.99€ 29.32
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An analysis and rebuttal of E.O. Wilson's "Consilience", this volume is a devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world, measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781582431413
- ISBN
- 9781582431413
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.30
€ 17.99
€ 15.30
Hardback. Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. The result is a challenge to prevailing definitions of value and a call for a scientifically-informed appreciation of nature. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231117869
- ISBN
- 9780231117869
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Condition: New
€ 134.36€ 102.15
€ 134.36
€ 102.15
Paperback. A controversial challenge to current views of evolution, for the general reader. Num Pages: 488 pages, 50 b/w illus. BIC Classification: PDA; PDZ; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 704. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KOC0010929
- ISBN
- 9780521603256
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. An in-depth survey of the evolving science of bio-enhancement: where we are now and how to deal with it. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: PDA; PDR; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785781773
- ISBN
- 9781785781773
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
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Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 halftones. 14 line illus. BIC Classification: PBB; PBX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691171715
- ISBN
- 9780691171715
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Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 42.58
€ 53.51
€ 42.58
Paperback. Argues that most laypeople, and many scientists, do not have a clear understanding of how metaphor relates to scientific thinking. This book demonstrates the presence and the power of metaphorical thought. It presents a series of studies of scientific systems to illustrate the roles of metaphor in science. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075827
- ISBN
- 9780252075827
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 135 pages, illus. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 183 x 14. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590332801
- ISBN
- 9781590332801
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Condition: New
€ 83.22€ 64.47
€ 83.22
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Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds (Posthum...
Maria Puig de La Bellacasa
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 38. .
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781517900656
- ISBN
- 9781517900656
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.98
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Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HP; M; PDA. Dimension: 152 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838209357
- ISBN
- 9783838209357
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Condition: New
€ 52.32€ 41.71
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Paperback. Extends and partially revises Bohr's philosophical views in light of scholarship in physics, science studies, and the philosophy of science as well as feminist, poststructuralist, and other critical social theories. This title reworks understandings of space, time, matter, causality, agency, subjectivity, and objectivity. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 33. Weight in Grams: 790. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. 544 pages, Illustrations. Extends and partially revises Bohr's philosophical views in light of scholarship in physics, science studies, and the philosophy of science as well as feminist, poststructuralist, and other critical social theories. This title reworks understandings of space, time, matter, causality, agency, subjectivity, and objectivity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: PDA. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 33. Weight: 764.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339175
- ISBN
- 9780822339175
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€ 37.99€ 34.45
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Paperback. Tracing the history of mesmerism, this text explores the contested territory between science and pseudoscience and society and science. Examining who was entranced, who did the entrancing, why it was so compelling and how it became equally powerful evidence of fraud and "unscientific" behaviour. Num Pages: 478 pages, 23 halftones, 59 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; JMTH; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226902234
- ISBN
- 9780226902234
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
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Paperback. Apart from the rainbows, lightning and northern lights in the title, the author discusses the blue of the sky, the colours of twilight and the dewdrop, and halos and other light phenomena. Num Pages: 88 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRQC5; PDA; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Temple Lodge Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781906999803
- ISBN
- 9781906999803
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.63
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Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Adonis Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780932776396
- ISBN
- 9780932776396
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Condition: New
€ 53.51€ 41.79
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Hardback. In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller's work, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature, and Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics, Metapatterns embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the grand-scale patterns that help explain the functioning of our universe. Num Pages: 296 pages, 87 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231067508
- ISBN
- 9780231067508
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
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Paperback. Investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This title reconstructs Polanyi's scientific and political milieus in Budapest, Berlin, and Manchester from the 1910s to the 1950s. Num Pages: 432 pages, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226103174
- ISBN
- 9780226103174
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
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Paperback. Series: Columbia Series in Science and Religion. Num Pages: 232 pages, 59 illus. BIC Classification: HREX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231145510
- ISBN
- 9780231145510
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
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Hardback. A collection of the author's general writings on philosophy, mathematics, and physics. It includes the author's exposition of his synthesis of electromagnetism and gravitation. Editor(s): Pesic, Peter. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 halftones. 19 line illus. BIC Classification: PBB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 165 x 31. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135458
- ISBN
- 9780691135458
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Condition: New
€ 59.45€ 46.96
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Hardback. Minds and Computers introduces readers to interdisciplinary philosophical consideration of Artificial Intelligence. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; PDA; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620982
- ISBN
- 9780748620982
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Condition: New
€ 130.80€ 119.92
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Paperback. A history of population ecology which traces two generations of science and scientists from the opening of the 20th century through to 1970. The text chronicles the careers of key figures and the field's theoretical, empirical and institutional development. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 316 pages, 9 halftones, 11 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JHBD; PDA; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226437286
- ISBN
- 9780226437286
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.73
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paperback. Reason has very often been seen as the highest faculty of man and, therefore, a strong tendency to attempt to analyze man mainly in terms of the rational dimension exists. This tendency was strong in antiquity and was given renewed attention in the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 195.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819199843
- ISBN
- 9780819199843
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Condition: New
€ 92.38
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Paperback. A study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Drawing from Heidegger and Foucault, as well as from philosophers of technology such as Don Ihde and Bruno Latour, it locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interaction between us and our machines. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 line drawing, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HPQ; PDA; TB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226852935
- ISBN
- 9780226852935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.84
€ 38.84