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By: Chiara Russo Krauss
ISBN: 9781350321458
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Chiara Russo Krauss
ISBN: 9781350321496
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Milton K. Munitz
ISBN: 9780691020914
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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When we read that scientists have come close to pinpointing the "origin of the universe" by means of a Big Bang cosmology, can we doubt that such inquiries or their results inevitably raise important philosophical questions This book attempts to answer such questions by examining scientific theories of cosmology in a philosophical context.
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By: Dr Michael John Gorman
ISBN: 9781350211438
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Michael John Gorman
ISBN: 9781350091955
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Elisabeth A. Lloyd
ISBN: 9780691000466
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Traditionally a scientific theory is viewed as based on universal laws of nature that serve as axioms for logical deduction. In analyzing the logical structure of evolutionary biology, Elisabeth Lloyd argues that the semantic account is more appropriate and powerful. This book will be of interest to biologists and philosophers alike.
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By: M. Norton Wise
ISBN: 9780691016016
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This finite study examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. Beginning with the late 18th century and continuing into the 20th, the essays here support the view that centralizing states and large-scale commercial enterprises have long been the major promoters of numerical precision. Photos & illus.
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By: James A. Marcum
ISBN: 9780826485915
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents a major study of one of the 20th century's key philosophers of science.
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By: James A. Marcum
ISBN: 9781472525680
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of scientific revolutions.
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By: James A. Marcum
ISBN: 9781472530493
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of scientific revolutions.
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By: Stella Sandford
ISBN: 9781350274921
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Stella Sandford
ISBN: 9781350274938
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Elizabeth Finkel
ISBN: 9781760642716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Black Inc.
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By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
ISBN: 9781541703971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America.
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By: Paul Arthur Schilpp
ISBN: 9780875482866
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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By: Roger Penrose
ISBN: 9780691119793
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers
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By: Roger Penrose
ISBN: 9780691178530
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Clinton Fernandes
ISBN: 9781921867361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
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In November 2011, the cognitive scientist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky arrived in Australia to receive the Sydney Peace Prize. He delivered lectures and answered questions about economics, history, international relations, linguistics, philosophy, justice and much more: What is unique about human language How is it related to c
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By: Tim Maudlin
ISBN: 9780691165714
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory. Tim Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian and Newtonian accounts of space and time, and tr
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By: Eric M. Rogers
ISBN: 9780691151151
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In our scientific age an understanding of physics is part of a liberal education. For lasting benefits the intelligent non-scientist needs a course of study that enables him to learn genuine science carefully and then encourages him to think about it and use it. This book is suitable for those who want to know what physics really is.
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By: William Eamon
ISBN: 9780691026022
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, this title conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously.
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By: Jimena Canales
ISBN: 9780691173177
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Tim Lewens
ISBN: 9780141977423
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Drawing on the insights of towering figures like Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, this book shows how key questions in science matter, often in personal, practical and political ways.
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By: Fritjof Capra
ISBN: 9780006547518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Capra argues that at the end of the 20th century we are shifting away from the mechanistic world of Descartes and Newton to a holistic, ecological view. He establishes patterns between ideas from such diverse fields as Buddhism and quantum physics.
