Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Biology and Criminology Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited... RRP: $147.97 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Between Understanding and Trust 'This is a welcome book. The issues of public understanding of science open many questions. What does "understanding" mean? How does understanding translate into attitudes towards science and trust in scientists? What is the role of the mass media? The... RRP: $121.63 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added ABC of Relativity First published in 1925, Bertrand Russell's ABC of Relativity was considered a masterwork of its time, contributing significantly to the mass popularisation of science. Authoritative and accessible, it provides a remarkable introductory guide to... RRP: $32.58 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Ontological Politics in a Disposable World This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, 'enhance' and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature... RRP: $110.48 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Mike's World Order Have you ever wondered where humanity is headed and worried deeply about it? We believe there are so many problems that need fixing before we are able to say we look forward to tomorrow. We feel there is something deeply wrong with the world. There is a... RRP: $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Land Remembers Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from scientists and experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and... RRP: $55.76 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Limits of the Self What counts as an individual in the living world? What does it mean for a living thing to remain the same through time, while constantly changing? These questions are the province of immunology, one of the most dynamic fields in biology. Immunology... RRP: $176.99 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Emergence in Science and Philosophy The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity. Emergent phenomena are said to... RRP: $147.97 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Discovery of Kepler's Laws Johannes Kepler's discovery of the basic quantitative laws that describe planetary motion placed the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus on a sound mathematic basis and proved the way for Newton's work in the next century. In this balanced, clearly... RRP: $183.54 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Instrument of Science Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism,... RRP: $375.76 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Perspectives on Sensory History Examines the relationship between sound and statuary in Western aesthetic thought in light of discourses on aurality emerging within the field of sound studies. Considers the sounding statue as an event and as conceptualized through acts of writing and... RRP: $77.60 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added In Defense of the Alien I have been observing the Earth since mankind first walked erect and used its first weapon. I am not human and do not take a human form. Eons ago, in Earth time, my species left behind our corporeal form and freed ourselves to roam the universe. I was... RRP: $30.49 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Synthetic Planet This timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory and then into the environment, bodies and communities. Turning our attention to the impact these chemicals have on our ecosystems,... RRP: $60.22 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Democracy, Intelligent Design, and Evolution Should alternatives to evolution be taught in American public schools or rejected as an establishment of religion? Democracy, Intelligent Design, and Evolution argues that accurate science education helps shape a democratic temperament. Rather than... RRP: $271.04 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Patterns of Discovery in the Social Sciences Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of "scientific" methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. In this study, Paul Diesing defines science not... RRP: $137.94 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Economics of Science Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these... RRP: $121.63 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Ethics of Killing Animals While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But... RRP: $77.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A... RRP: $388.08 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Chaos Bewitched A short pithy saying that sums up a general truth, the aphorism is the oldest written art form. Following in such a long tradition from Ancient Greeks like Plato and Heraclitus to Romans like Seneca and Cicero all the way to moderns like Nietzsche, the... RRP: $44.92 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Metametaphysics and the Sciences This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection between philosophy and science. A unique feature is the way in which it is guided both by history of philosophy, by interaction between philosophy and science, and by methodological... RRP: $307.36 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Body, Soul, and Bioethics In this book noted theologian and ethicist Gilbert C. Meilaender examines how the field of bioethics has developed over the last quarter century and reconsiders some of its central concepts and arguments. Because the literature of bioethics has become... RRP: $183.54 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Scientists' Expertise as Performance The essays in this collection explore our reliance on experts within a historical context and across a wide range of fields, including agriculture, engineering, health sciences and labour management. Contributors argue that experts were highly aware of... RRP: $112.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics This book challenges the role of scientists in policy making and the idea of deliberative democracy. The author argues that awareness must increase among both politicians and the citizens who elect them. We must revitalise the decision-making processes... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added On Scientific Representation This is the first comprehensive guide to Tennyson, containing concise, informative entries on his poetry, his life and the cultural context of his work. Tennyson, the major poet of the Victorian age, lived through most of the nineteenth century,... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Nature of Classification The Nature of Classification discusses an old and generally ignored issue in the philosophy of science: natural classification. It argues for classification to be a sometimes theory-free activity in science, and discusses the existence of scientific... RRP: $115.93 Add to Cart The item has been added
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