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  • Ethics of Killing Animals Ethics of Killing Animals
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    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...
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  • Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity
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    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...
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  • Chaos Bewitched Chaos Bewitched
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    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...
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  • Science, Freedom, Democracy Science, Freedom, Democracy
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    Science, Freedom, Democracy

    This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and...
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    Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation

    This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. The essays trace the historical development of formal causation and demonstrate its relevance for...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Slanted Truths Slanted Truths
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    Slanted Truths

    "Lynn Margulis is one of the most successful synthetic thinkers in modern biology. This collection of her work, enhanced by essays co-authored with Dorion Sagan, is a welcome introduction to the full breadth of her many...
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  • Scientists' Expertise as Performance Scientists' Expertise as Performance
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    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...
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  • The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences
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    The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences

    This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences such as physics and chemistry and by...
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  • Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics
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    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...
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  • Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols
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    Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols

    Science and the Appropriation of Reality Signs, Symbols and Metaphysical Imaginaries Minding, Imaging and Symbolizing A Nearly Comprehensive Naturalism In Search of a 'True Naturalism' Putting Life Back into Nature On Learning Good Sense Against...
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  • Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds
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    Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds

    Social enterprises have been a growing phenomenon around the world in the past decade. The authors of this volume argue that they represent a unique type of organization. By combining social goals with a business orientation, both critical for their...
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  • On Scientific Representation On Scientific Representation
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    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,...
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  • The Nature of Classification The Nature of Classification
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    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...
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  • Emergent Multiverse Emergent Multiverse
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    Emergent Multiverse

    The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the "many worlds" approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this:...
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  • Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science
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    Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science

    The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with...
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  • Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics
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    Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics

    Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself-what it is and why it is morally salient-is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings...
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  • The Evolution Of Immortality (1901) The Evolution Of Immortality (1901)
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    The Evolution Of Immortality (1901)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Theory And Practice Of Scientific Management (1917) The Theory And Practice Of Scientific Management (1917)
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    The Theory And Practice Of Scientific Management (1917)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The New Physics And Its Evolution (1908) The New Physics And Its Evolution (1908)
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    The New Physics And Its Evolution (1908)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Permanence And Evolution Permanence And Evolution
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    Permanence And Evolution

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Lectures On The Evolution Of Plants (1899) Lectures On The Evolution Of Plants (1899)
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    Lectures On The Evolution Of Plants (1899)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Alcohol, The Sanction For Its Use Alcohol, The Sanction For Its Use
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    Alcohol, The Sanction For Its Use

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Further Evolution Of Man The Further Evolution Of Man
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    The Further Evolution Of Man

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue
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    The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue

     The publication in 1632 of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the 'scientific revolution' and helped Galileo become the 'father of modern science'. The Dialogue contains Galileo's...
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  • On Science On Science
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    On Science

    Can science explain everything? Brian Ridley, a physicist himself, explores this question and more in this compelling exploration of both the scope and limits of science. Tracing back to the roots of scientific thinking in a world of 'magical ideas', he...
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  • Evolution Of The Dominion Of Canada Evolution Of The Dominion Of Canada
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    Evolution Of The Dominion Of Canada

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Studies Scientific And Social V2 (1900) Studies Scientific And Social V2 (1900)
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    Studies Scientific And Social V2 (1900)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Science Matrix The Science Matrix
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    The Science Matrix

    In these essays, Professor Seitz, President Emeritus of Rockefeller University, and one of the developers of modern semiconductor physics, investigates the role of science in modern society, its origins, and its development.
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  • Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation
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    Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation

    Spatio-temporal patterns appear almost everywhere in nature, and their description and understanding still raise important and basic questions. However, if one looks back 20 or 30 years, definite progress has been made in the...
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