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  • Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science

    by Katherine Brading ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Philosophy
    The centerpiece of Émilie Du Châtelet’s philosophy of science is her Foundations of Physics, first published in 1740. The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics, including such pressing issues of the time as whether there are atoms, the appropriate roles of God and of hypotheses in scientific theorizing, how (if at all) bodies are capable of acting on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason

    by Katherine Brading, Marius Stan ...
    From pebbles to planets, tigers to tables, pine trees to people; animate and inanimate, natural and artificial; bodies are everywhere. Bodies populate the world, acting and interacting with one another, and they are the subject-matter of Newton's laws of motion. But what is a body? And how can we know how they behave? In Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, Katherine Brading and Marius ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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  • 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

  • Order Out of Chaos

    Man's New Dialogue with Nature

    by Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers ...
    Series series Radical Thinkers
    A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesisOrder Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics

    From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    by Karl Popper ...
    Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is the third volume of the Postscript. It may be read independently, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume 2

    by Morris Kline ...
    This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the disciplines origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in the 19th century, and the number ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Hidden Worlds in Quantum Physics

    by Gérard Gouesbet ...
    The past decade has witnessed a resurgence in research and interest in the areas of quantum computation and entanglement. This new book addresses the hidden worlds or variables of quantum physics. Author Gérard Gouesbet studied and worked with a former student of Louis de Broglie, a pioneer of quantum physics. His presentation emphasizes the history and philosophical foundations of physics, areas ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • The Open Universe

    An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    by Karl Popper ...
    The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Simply Riemann

    by Jeremy Gray ...
    Series Book 17 - Great Lives
    “Jeremy Gray is one of the world’s leading historians of mathematics, and an accomplished author of popular science. In Simply Riemann he combines both talents to give us clear and accessible insights into the astonishing discoveries of Bernhard Riemann—a brilliant but enigmatic mathematician who laid the foundations for several major areas of today’s mathematics, and for Albert Einstein’s General ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scientific Representation

    Paradoxes of Perspective

    by Bas C. van Fraassen ...
    Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena by means of theories, as well as in many concrete ways by such means as pictures, graphs, table-top models, and computer simulations. Scientific Representation begins with an inquiry into the nature of representation in general, drawing on such diverse sources as Plato's ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Time and Space

    by Barry Dainton ...
    The first edition (2001) of this title quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and dynamic time, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Analysis and Calculus

    by Nicholas Faulkner ...
    Series series The Foundations of Math
    This impressive volume stands out because it teaches both math and the history behind it. It introduces the serious student of math to key concepts of calculus, while offering biographies of important figures as a background to the comprehensive understanding of the field. Readers will gain a solid appreciation for the sometimes competing theories that informed its early history. Though this book ... Read more

    $48.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus