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  • Ernest Nagel on Science and Philosophy

    Volume I: Biographical Materials and Correspondence with C. G. Hempel

    Edited by Roberto Gronda, Adam Tamas Tuboly ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel. Being one of the philosophical and institutional motors of the new discipline of philosophy of science, Ernest Nagel is still much underappreciated by scholars. By including a major intellectual biography of Nagel’s life and works (written by his daughter Yvonne Nagel ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Roberto Gronda, Marianne Janack, Giancarlo Marchetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary debates in the philosophy of science.Pragmatism has been undergoing a considerable revival in philosophical debates for the last two decades. Philosophers of science are now turning to pragmatism as a source of general insights and technical tools to address some of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Rorty and Beyond

    by Roman Madzia, Marcin Kilanowski, Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, Kenneth W. Stikkers, Justin Bell, Roberto Gronda, Maja Niestrój, Radim Šíp, Preston Stovall, David Beisecker, John Shook, Wojciech Malecki, Miklós Nyíro, Crispin Sartwell, Brendan Hogan, John Ryder ...
    For better or worse, Rorty has shaped the trajectory of academic philosophy. A decade after his passing, his legacy is ever present, especially in context of the growth of the far right, the struggle over the meaning of justice and equity, and the ecological crises we face. Edited by Randall Auxier, Eli Kramer, and Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, Rorty and Beyond brings together leading international ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Dewey's Philosophy of Science

    by Roberto Gronda ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This monograph presents a unitary account of Dewey’s philosophy of science and demonstrates the relevance for contemporary debates. The book is written from a theoretical angle and explains Dewey's via on Experience, Language, Inquiry, Construction and Realism. Via taking this route the book addresses key philosophical problems - such as the nature of language, the idea of experience, the notion ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • A Companion to Relativism

    Edited by Steven D. Hales ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics.Features original contributions from many of the leading figures working on various aspects of relativismPresents a substantial, broad range of current thinking ... Read more

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  • In Defence of History

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    "A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows ... Read more

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  • Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Murder of Professor Schlick

    The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

    by David Edmonds ...
    From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Objectivity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Gaukroger ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    - Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. An account is generally considered to be objective if it attempts to capture the nature ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Knowledge

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in ... Read more

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  • Journey to the Edge of Reason

    The Life of Kurt Gödel

    by Stephen Budiansky ...
    The first major biography written for a general audience of the logician and mathematician whose Incompleteness Theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution.Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true—yet never provable—continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    by Stephen H. Kellert ...
    What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological ... Read more

    $35.29 USD