Category - Science
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thin...
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"Marvelously funny and provocative."—Publishers Weekly Why do 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, while others are convinced that they wer...
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The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphereWhat is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the ...
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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scie...
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know,...
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Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In...
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The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A luminous guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal that the scope of the universe is greater, and more beautiful, than...
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Causality / Edition 2
HardcoverOriginal price $71.99 - Original price $71.99Original price $71.99$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It show...
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The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstei...
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Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both es...
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A Heated Debate: Meta-Theoretical Studies on Current Climate Research and Public Understanding of Science
PaperbackOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Ever since climate change has been identified as one of the most significant challenges of humanity, climate change deniers have repeatedly tried t...
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The Enigma of Reason
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“Brilliant…Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times“Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities p...
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Questions
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /How many questions do we ask each day? Why do we ask them in the first place? Do we always ask because we're trying to learn something? Or are th...
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Views Into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence
HardcoverOriginal price $69.00 - Original price $69.00Original price $69.00$84.99$84.99 - $84.99Current price $84.99| /The most famous challenge to computational cognitive science and artificial intelligence is the philosopher John Searle's "Chinese Room" argument. ...
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