(Hardback)
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: Lee McIntyre
ISBN: 9780262538930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence.
(Hardback)
By: Saul Perlmutter
ISBN: 9781399705493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A Nobel prize-winning physicist, a social psychologist and a philosopher on how science can help us navigate information overload, thrive amidst uncertainty and heal our fractured society
(Hardback)
By: Catherine Z. Elgin
ISBN: 9780262036535
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.
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By: Richard Grusin
ISBN: 9781517902896
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: Paul Arthur Schilpp
ISBN: 9780875481333
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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(Hardback)
By: Carsten Strathausen
ISBN: 9781517900748
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Carsten Strathausen
ISBN: 9781517900755
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: Mary Domski
ISBN: 9780812696622
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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(Hardback)
By: Thomas Henry Huxley
ISBN: 9780760783375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: Sterling Juvenile
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(Paperback, Expanded ed.)
By: Palle Yourgrau
ISBN: 9780812694086
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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An introduction to Godel's ideas on cosmology, physics, maths, and their philosophical implications. By explaining "Godel universes", models he proposed to solve the field equations of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the author shows what Godel's theory implies: time travel is possible.
(Hardback)
By: Robert Almeder
ISBN: 9780812693799
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Almeder
ISBN: 9780812693805
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Jones
ISBN: 9781786839732
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This book explores Kants influence on the development of biology and his importance for contemporary issues in philosophy of biology. Establishing Kant-inspired approaches toward these issues helps to develop new perspectives that critically examine underlying assumptions in biology.
(Paperback)
By: David Wills
ISBN: 9780816698868
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: Merrilee H. Salmon
ISBN: 9780872204515
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Introduces the philosophy of science focused on cultivating an understanding of both the workings of science and its historical and social context. This title offers selections that range from discussions of topics in general methodology to a sampling of foundational problems in various physical, biological, behavioral, and social sciences.
(Paperback)
By: Isabelle Stengers
ISBN: 9780816630561
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Gerald Weissmann
ISBN: 9781934137161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
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"An absolute first-rate writer [on science and the arts]."--Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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By: Isabelle Stengers
ISBN: 9780816625178
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Power and Invention offers a unique perspective on the power of scientific theories to modify society, and vice versa. The book makes an eloquent argument for an "open science", one that focuses on singularities, is specific to context, wary of hasty generalizations, and open to a profusion of events.
(Paperback)
By: Jonathan D. Moreno
ISBN: 9781934137185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
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New science for a new administration from the premier liberal think tank.
(Hardback)
By: Stephen H. Kellert
ISBN: 9780816647637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Explores what happens when new media becomes old news.
(Paperback)
By: Raphael Sassower
ISBN: 9780816629572
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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This work considers two related phenomena - the positive public image of science as the citadel of truth and the objectivity and the angst displayed by scientists over their indirect roles in technological horrors, such as the atomic devastation of Hiroshima.
(Paperback)
By: Jonathan D. Moreno
ISBN: 9781934137383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
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The Body Politic is the first comprehensive history of the significance and struggles over science in America.
(Paperback)
By: Rebekah Sheldon
ISBN: 9780816689880
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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