Category - Philosophy
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Philosophy of Medicine
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Speaker's Meaning
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Deleuze: History and Science
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Human and Machine Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to ...
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize — winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French...
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The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
PaperbackOriginal price $17.50 - Original price $17.50Original price $17.50$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to E...
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Manifestly Haraway
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant toda...
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Discourse on Method and Related Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /"It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well"René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of th...
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Philosophy of Science: Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully "objective?" What, really, can be ...
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AI Ethics
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition / Edition 4
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Free Will
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The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to subur...
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Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $52.00 - Original price $52.00Original price $52.00$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading o...
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Uncommon Sense
PaperbackOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /J. Robert Oppenheimer, a leading physicist in the Manhattan Project, recognized that scientific inquiry and discovery could no longer be separate...
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Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for p...
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Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice
PaperbackOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Environmental Ethics offers an up-to-date and balanced overview of environmental ethics, focusing on theory and practice. Written in clear and en...
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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. This book contains th...
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Animals in the World: Five Essays on Aristotle's Biology
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From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Explores the relationship between technics and humanity, tracing the emergence of a bio-technical conception of existence in contemporary continent...
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely...
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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Virtual reality is genuine reality; that's the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of "technophilosophy," David J. Chalmers gives...
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The Ethics of Aristotle: The Most Influential and Elaborate of His Writings on Ethics
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /It seems clear that happiness is the ultimate goal to which human life aspires. But what is the true essence of happiness? This thorny question is ...
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