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  • The Metaphysics of Color

    by Michael Watkins, Elay Shech ...
    Series series Elements in Metaphysics
    This Element offers an opinionated and selective introduction to philosophical issues concerning the metaphysics of color. The opinion defended is that colors are objective features of our world; objects are colored, and they have those colors independent of how they are experienced. It is a minority opinion. Many philosophers thinking about color experience argue that perceptual variation, the ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Scientific Understanding and Representation

    Modeling in the Physical Sciences

    Edited by Insa Lawler, Kareem Khalifa, Elay Shech ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics
    This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay. Featuring several articles in an engaging ‘critical conversation’ format, the volume integrates discussions about understanding and representation with perennial issues in the philosophy of science, including the nature of scientific knowledge, idealizations, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Idealizations in Physics

    by Elay Shech ...
    Series series Elements in the Philosophy of Physics
    This Element offers an opinionated and selective introduction to philosophical issues concerning idealizations in physics, including the concept of and reasons for introducing idealization, abstraction, and approximation, possible taxonomy and justification, and application to issues of mathematical Platonism, scientific realism, and scientific understanding. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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    Interest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet the concept continues to be viewed with skepticism by many. In this book, Paul Humphreys argues that many of the problems arise from a long philosophical tradition that is overly committed to synchronic reduction and has been overly focused on problems in philosophy of mind. He develops a novel account of ... Read more

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  • How to Do Science with Models

    A Philosophical Primer

    by Axel Gelfert ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Taking scientific practice as its starting point, this book charts the complex territory of models used in science. It examines what scientific models are and what their function is. Reliance on models is pervasive in science, and scientists often need to construct models in order to explain or predict anything of interest at all. The diversity of kinds of models one finds in science – ranging ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Fictions in Science

    Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization

    Edited by Mauricio Suárez ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down to the last detail. The essays collected in this book—written by some of the leading experts in the field—challenge this popular image right at its heart, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction, too.With ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Mathematical Tables: Fourier Transforms (Mobi Study Guides)

    by MobileReference ...
    Students and research workers in mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences will find this compilation invaluable. All the information included is practical, rarely used results are excluded. Great care has been taken to present all results concisely and clearly. Excellent to keep as a handy reference! If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: Brush ... Read more

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  • Causation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage. Any intervention we make in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time

    A Proposal in Natural Philosophy

    by Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Lee Smolin ...
    Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • All the Math You Missed

    (But Need to Know for Graduate School)

    by Thomas A. Garrity ...
    Beginning graduate students in mathematical sciences and related areas in physical and computer sciences and engineering are expected to be familiar with a daunting breadth of mathematics, but few have such a background. This bestselling book helps students fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Thomas A. Garrity explains the basic points and a few key results of all the most important undergraduate ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Cybersemiotics

    Why Information Is Not Enough

    by Soren Brier ...
    A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics provides such a framework.By integrating cybernetic information theory into the unique semiotic ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Languages: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Anderson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing?The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different ... Read more

    $7.99 USD