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Cambridge University Press Talking about Life Conversations on Astrobiology
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Cambridge University Press Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism
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Cambridge University Press Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Religion Science and Worldview
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Cambridge University Press Goethe contra Newton
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Cambridge University Press The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry
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Cambridge University Press Consistent Quantum Theory
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Cambridge University Press Defining Science
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Cambridge University Press Shaping Deduction Greek Mathematics A Study in Cognitive History 51 Ideas in Context Series Number 51
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of Darwinism
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Carnap Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Adversaries and Authorities Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science 42 Ideas in Context Series Number 42
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Cambridge University Press Adversaries and Authorities
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy and Technology Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
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Cambridge University Press Robert Boyle
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Cambridge University Press The Immune Self
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Cambridge University Press Thinking about Biology
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Cambridge University Press Adaptationism and Optimality
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Cambridge University Press Giordano Bruno Cause Principle and Unity And Essays on Magic Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. In his philosophical works he addressed such delicate issues as the role of Christ as mediator and the distinction, in human beings, between soul and matter. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, and of two essays on magic, On Magic and A General Account of Bonding, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.
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Cambridge University Press Adaptationism and Optimality
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Cambridge University Press Thinking about Biology
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Cambridge University Press The Selfish Meme
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
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Cambridge University Press Arguments about Arguments
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Cambridge University Press The Methodology of Experimental Economics
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Cambridge University Press The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics A Study in Cognitive History 51 Ideas in Context Series Number 51
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Cambridge University Press Causal Asymmetries
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Cambridge University Press The Order of Nature in Aristotles Physics
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Cambridge University Press Reconsidering Logical Positivism
Book SynopsisOne of the preeminent philosophers of science writing offers a reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism, the revolutionary philosophical movement centered around the Vienna Circle in the 1920s and 30s.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Part I. Geometry, Relativity, and Convention: 1. Moritz Schlick's Philosophical Papers; Postscript: general relativity and General Theory of Knowledge; 2. Carnap and Weyl on the foundations of geometry and relativity theory; 3. Geometry, convention, and the relativized a priori: Reichenbach, Schlick and Carnap; 4. Poincaré's conventionalism and the logical positivists; Part II. Der Logische Aufbau der Welt: 5. Carnap's Aufbau reconsidered; 6. Epistemology in the Aufbau; Postscript: Carnap and the Neo-Kantians; Part III. Logico-Mathematical Truth: 7. Analytic truth in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language; 8. Carnap and Wittgenstein's Tractatus; 9. Tolerance and analyticity in Carnap's philosophy of mathematics; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Beyond Science The Wider Human Context Canto original series
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge Science and Relativism
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays
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Cambridge University Press The Dappled World A Study of the Boundaries of Science
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Cambridge University Press The Dappled World A Study of the Boundaries of Science
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays
Book SynopsisThis book presents a collection of linked essays written by one of the leading philosophers of biology, Kim Sterelny, on the topic of biological evolution. These essays, some never before published, form a coherent whole that defends not just an overall conception of evolution, but also a distinctive take on cognitive evolution.Trade Review'… a wonderful collection of essays. Everyone interested in the philosophy of biology and in evolutionary philosophy of mind should read these essays.' ErkenntnisTable of ContentsPart I. Overview: 1. Evolution and agency: a user's guide; Part II. Replication and Interaction: 2. Return of the gene (with Philip Kitcher); 3. The gxtended replicator (with Kelly Smith and Mike Dickison); 4. The return of the group; Part III. Evolution and Macroevolution: 5. Punctuated equilibrium and macroevolution; 6. Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology; 7. Darwin's tangled bank; Part IV. The Descent of the Mind: 8. Where does thinking come from? A commentary on Peter Godfrey Smith's Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature; 9. Basic minds; 10. Intentional agency and the metarepresentation hypothesis; 11. Situated agency and the descent of desire; 12. The evolution of agency.
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Cambridge University Press Aristotles Philosophy of Biology
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Cambridge University Press Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale Contemporary Theories in Quantum Gravity
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Cambridge University Press Darwinism in Philosophy Social Science and Policy
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Cambridge University Press Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale
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Cambridge University Press Science and Ethics
Book SynopsisIn Science and Ethics, Bernard Rollin examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. Providing an introduction to basic ethical concepts, he discusses a variety of ethical issues that are relevant to science and how they are ignored, to the detriment of both science and society.Trade Review'In this important book the author looks at historical and conceptual aspects of the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science. His conclusion is instructive...' The Scientific and Medical NetworkTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The waxing and waning of faith in science; 2. Scientific ideology and 'value free' science; 3. What is ethics?; 4. Ethics and research on human beings; 5. Animal research; 6. Biotechnology and ethics: is genetic engineering intrinsically wrong?; 7. Biotechnology and ethics II: rampaging monsters and suffering animal; 8. Biotechnology and ethics III: cloning, xenotransplantation and stem cells; 9. Pain and ethics; 10. Ethics in science.
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy Biology and Life Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
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Cambridge University Press Science Politics and Evolution
Book SynopsisThis book examines central topics in philosophy of biology, challenging the current evolutionary accounts of the female orgasm and analysing them for bias. It examines the concept of objectivity and the structure of evolutionary theory and unlocks the puzzle of the units of selection debates into four distinct aspects.Trade Review"Although I do not agree with some of the conclusions the author draws, she certainly provides and interesting perspective and illustrates the importance of being very clear about the nature of the debate and our assumptions when comparing theory and data." Suzanne H. Alonzo, The Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of Contents1. The nature of Darwin's support for the theory of natural selection; 2. A semantic approach to the structure of population genetics; 3. Confirmation of evolutionary and ecological models; 4. Species selections on variability; 5. An open letter to Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, regarding their book, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior; 6. Problems with pluralism; 7. Normality and variation: the human genome project and the ideal human type; 8. Evolutionary psychology: the burdens of proof; 9. Objectivity and the double standard for feminist epistemologies; 10. Science and anti-science: objectivity and its real enemies; 11. Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality.
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Cambridge University Press What Science Offers the Humanities
Book SynopsisThis book examines the deep problems facing the study of culture. Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences, which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and the body is entirely untenable.Trade Review'… intellectually acute, wide-ranging, well-written, and deeply knowledgeable survey of the hard and soft disciplines behind consciousness …' Science'I greatly enjoyed and admired Slingerland's What Science Offers the Humanities, and recommend it highly. It not only addresses a weariness and lack of curiosity at the heart of some major areas in the humanities, but is also very adept at summing up the best thinking in the natural sciences. It teems with ideas that will intrigue and delight an open mind, and is also lively and positive in its bridge building. Slingerland shows real intellectual brio. This is an important book.' Ian McEwan, bestselling author of Atonement and On Chesil BeachTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine: 1. The disembodied mind; 2. They live among us; 3. Pulling the plug; Part II. Embodying Culture: 4. Embodying culture; Part III. Defending Vertical Integration: 5. Defending the empirical; 6. Who's afraid of reductionism?; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Adam Smiths Moral Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Conceptualising the Social World Principles of Sociological Analysis
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Cambridge University Press Bioethics An Introduction
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Cambridge University Press The Chain of Change A Study of Aristotles Physics VII Cambridge Classical Studies
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics By Sklar Lawrence November 2012
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