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ISBN: 9780199985050 - Systematicity Systematicity
Paul Hoyningen-Huene

ISBN10: 0199985057  ISBN13: 9780199985050
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Jun 2013
In Systematicity, Paul Hoyningen-Huene answers the question "What is science?" by proposing that scientific knowledge is primarily distinguished from other forms of knowledge, especially from everyday knowledge, by being more systematic. More

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ISBN: 9781612192000 - The Science Delusion The Science Delusion
Curtis White

ISBN10: 1612192009  ISBN13: 9781612192000
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 May 2013

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ISBN: 9781780334929 - Farewell to Reality Farewell to Reality
Jim Baggott

ISBN10: 1780334923  ISBN13: 9781780334929
Publisher: Constable and Robinson Constable
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 May 2013
What evidence do we have for super-symmetric squarks', or superstrings vibrating in an 11-dimensional space-time? How do we know that we live in a multiverse? How can we tell that the universe is a hologram projected from information encoded on... More

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ISBN: 9781107012745 - Natural Categories and Human Kinds Natural Categories and Human Kinds
Muhammad Ali Khalidi

ISBN10: 1107012740  ISBN13: 9781107012745
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 May 2013
Muhammad Ali Khalidi proposes a new approach to classifications in the natural and social sciences, avoiding essentialism and social constructionism. The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and... More

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ISBN: 9780674047976 - Evolution, Games, and God Evolution, Games, and God
Martin A Nowak, Sarah Coakley

ISBN10: 0674047974  ISBN13: 9780674047976
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Evolution, Games, and God explores how cooperation and altruism, alongside mutation and natural selection, play a critical role in evolution, from microbes to human societies. Inheriting a tendency to cooperate and self-sacrifice on behalf of... More

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ISBN: 9781107025899 - Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law 3 Volume Set Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law 3 Volume Set
Margaret Brazier, Suzanne Ost, Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett, Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders

ISBN10: 1107025893  ISBN13: 9781107025899
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
This three-volume set critically explores the criminal process's impact on medicine and the ethical legitimacy of its regulation of bioethics. Through socio-legal, theoretical, comparative and historical analysis, case studies and empirical... More

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ISBN: 9781616147532 - God and the Atom God and the Atom
Victor J Stenger

ISBN10: 1616147539  ISBN13: 9781616147532
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Apr 2013
Tells the story of science's ideas - from its genesis to the 21st century. In this title, the author makes the case that the total absence of empirical facts and theoretical arguments to support the existence of any component to reality other than... More

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ISBN: 9781780937991 - Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy
Manuel DeLanda

ISBN10: 1780937997  ISBN13: 9781780937991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain... More

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ISBN: 9780521173902 - Genetics and Philosophy Genetics and Philosophy
Paul Griffiths, Karola Stotz

ISBN10: 0521173906  ISBN13: 9780521173902
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Apr 2013
Integrates the work of philosophers of science seeking to make sense of genetics with an accessible introduction to the science. In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments... More

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ISBN: 9783642353468 - The March of Time The March of Time
Friedel Weinert

ISBN10: 3642353460  ISBN13: 9783642353468
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: 1st ed. 2013
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Apr 2013
This interdisciplinary study surveys the evolution of our changing conceptions of time, organizing coverage around the central themes of cosmology and regularity, stasis and flux, symmetry and asymmetry. Defends a dynamic, rather than a static... More