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  • BATTLE OF THE BIG BANG
    NIAYESH AFSHORDI / PHIL HALPER
    A thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality.   By most popular accounts, the universe started with a bang some 13.8 billion years ago. But what happened before the Big Bang? And how do we know it happened at all? Here prominent cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi and science co...

    $172.48

  • NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS IN CITIES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    MASOUMEH MIRSAFA / FABIANO LEMES DE OLIVEIRA
    This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South. NBS are recognized as a key strategy for achieving sustainable development, and they are being implemented in a variety of sectors such as urban planning, agriculture, forestry, and water management. They offer a wide range of benefits, but there is a gap between research and prac...

    $840.00

  • KANT AND THE SYSTEMATICITY OF THE SCIENCES
    This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences. It considers not only what Kant has to say on systematicity in general, but also how the systematicity requirement for science is specified in different fields of knowledge. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part I is devoted to hist...

    $1,240.00

  • EXOPHILOSOPHY
    PLAYFORD, RICHARD
    This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophical perspectives and approaches presented across the chapters will provide a foundation for future work on exophilosophy. Interest in space, space exploration, and alien life has never been greater. In popular culture, for example, it ...

    $1,060.00

  • LANDMARK ESSAYS ON RHETORIC OF SCIENCE: ISSUES AND METHODS
    RANDY ALLEN HARRIS
    Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science, tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s. A companion to Randy Allen Harris’s foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies, this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carol...

    $1,480.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO METASCIENCE
    GABRIEL BENNETT / EMMA GOODALL
    An Introduction to Metascience delves into core metascientific concepts, offering a critical examination of current knowledge creation processes and scrutinising researchers and their methodologies across disciplines. This book stands alone as a comprehensive guide to metascience, offering readers a singular resource for understanding and implementing metascientific principles ...

    $1,160.00

  • UNDERSTANDING AND CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE
    ANDREI IONUȚ MĂRĂȘOIU
    This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience. In doing so, it builds bridges between different philosophical disciplines and provides a metaphysically robust characterization of understanding, both in and beyond science. The past two decades have witnessed growing interest from epistemologists, philosophers of science, philosophers of mind and ethicist...

    $800.00

  • PHILOSOPHY OF PLANT COGNITION
    GABRIELE FERRETTI, PETER SCHULTE, AND MARKUS WILD
    This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy. The debate about plant cognition is marked by deep disagreements. Some theorists are confident that the empirical evidence supports the ascription of cognitive c...

    $1,240.00

  • SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION, CAUSALITY, AND AGENCY
    MAJID D. BENI
    This book draws on advances in computational neuroscience and theoretical biology to provide a clear and accessible agentive account of the nature of causality and scientific explanations. Instead of attempting to establish the elements of scientific explanation, such as causality, in a reality unadulterated by a human perspective, this book relies on scientific facts about cog...

    $1,240.00

  • NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NEO-KANTIANISM AND THE SCIENCES
    This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond. During this period, various scientific disciplines underwent modernisation processes characterised by an increasing empirical inclination and a decline in the influence of metaphysics, the pl...

    $1,240.00

  • THINK TO NEW WORLDS
    JOSHUA BLU BUHS
    How a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture.   Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanned newspapers, journals, and magazines for reports of bizarre occurrences: dogs that talked, vampires, strange visions in the sky...

    $611.56

  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF OUTER SPACE
    MIRKO DANIEL GARASIC
    This volume provides a rigorous philosophical investigation of the rationales, challenges, and promises of the coming Space Age. Over the past decade, space exploration has made significant and accelerating progress, and its potential has attracted growing attention from science, states, businesses, innovators, as well as the media and society more generally. Yet philosophical ...

    $1,120.00

  • THE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
    JOHN R. HELLIWELL
    There is a limited understanding amongst scientists, students, and the public about realizing trust in scientific findings. This should be a paramount objective. Scientists and the public need to know more about the link between the philosophy of science and science research methods. There is a limited understanding of why accuracy is important and that it is not the same as pr...

    $1,420.00

  • CRITICAL REALISM AND THE OBJECTIVE VALUE OF SUSTAINABILITY
    GABRIELA-LUCIA SABAU
    Critical Realism and the Objective Value of Sustainability contributes to the growing discussion surrounding the concept of sustainability, using a critical realist approach within a transdisciplinary theoretical framework to examine how sustainability objectively occurs in the natural world and in society. The book develops an ethical theory of sustainability as an objective v...

    $1,240.00

  • INFERENCE AND REPRESENTATION
    MAURICIO SUÁREZ
    The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology.   Mauricio Suárez develops a conception of representation that delivers a compelling account of modeling practice. He begins by discussing the history and methodology of model building, charting the emergence of what he calls the modeling attitude...

    $602.52

  • CRIME, SCIENCE AND POLICING
    GLORIA LAYCOCK
    This book offers an introduction to crime science; it is specifically for police and security professionals. Written by one of the founders of crime science and an expert in crime reduction, it considers the unique characteristics of the approach, its applicability to the control of crime, disorder and terrorism, and the importance of experimentation and the testing of new idea...

    $1,120.00

  • SUSTAINABILITY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
    JEFFRY L. RAMSEY
    This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. Examining assumptions about concepts, theories, evidence, and the moral ideals of sustainability can better orient us as we pursue this urgent and important goal. The book applies perspectives and tools from the philosophy of science – const...

    $580.00

  • PHYSICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
    DRAGUTIN MIHAILOVIĆ / DARKO KAPOR / SINIŠA CRVENKOVIĆ / ANJA MIHAILOVIĆ
    This book analyses the physics of complex systems to elaborate the problems encountered in teaching and research. Inspired by the of Kurt Gödel (including his incompleteness theorems) it considers the concept of time, the idea of models and the concept of complexity before trying to assess the state of physics in general. Using both general and practical examples, the idea of i...

    $1,460.00

  • EFFECTIVE ECOLOGY
    ROGER D. COUSENS
    Ecology is one of the most challenging of sciences, with unambiguous knowledge much harder to achieve than it might seem. But it is also one of the most important sciences for the future health of our planet. It is vital that our efforts are as effective as possible at achieving our desired outcomes. This book is intended to help individual ecologists to develop a better vision...

    $1,700.00

  • ICARUS OR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Mr. Haldane's Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me somewhat sceptical. I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, r...

    $9.00

  • WHY IT'S OK TO TRUST SCIENCE
    KEITH M. PARSONS
    Why trust science? Why should science have more authority than "other ways of knowing?" Is science merely a social construct? Or even worse: a tool of oppression? This book boldly takes on these and other explosive questions—lodged by ideologues on the left and the right—and offers readers a well researched defense of science and a polemic addressed to its detractors. Why It’s ...

    $640.00

  • THE AESTHETICS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
    The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the beauty of theories, and other aspects of scientific practice have been neglected. This book offers a novel perspective on aesthetics in experimentation via ten original essays from an interdisciplinary group comprised of philosophers,...

    $1,160.00

  • A PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS
    WALTER VEIT
    This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness. It advocates a Darwinian bottom-up approach that treats consciousness as a complex, evolved, and multidimensional phenomenon in nature rather than a mysterious all-or-nothing property immune to the...

    $1,160.00

  • THE SPECIES PROBLEM
    IGOR YA. PAVLINOV
    The general notion of species is one of the most fundamental in biology. But an idea of species is also one of the most persistent unresolved obsessions of biologists, philosophers and theoreticians. This new book investigates the multifaceted problem species as a "conceptual envelope" of that notion. Contemporary conceptualists and evolutionary epistemology allow for a fresh l...

    $1,480.00

  • SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND REPRESENTATION
    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, id...

    $1,160.00

  • NEW PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
    YAFENG SHAN
    This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science. Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and semantic approaches. The chapters in Part I of the book examine these two traditiona...

    $1,160.00

  • THE INTERNET AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
    From the perspective of the philosophy of science, this book analyzes the Internet conceived in a broad sense. It includes three layers that require philosophical attention: (1) the technological infrastructure, (2) the Web, and (3) cloud computing, along with apps and mobile Internet. The study focuses on the network of networks from the viewpoint of complexity, both structura...

    $1,160.00

  • RECONSIDERATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY I
    LIU DACHUN / WANG BOLU / DING JUNQIANG / LIU YONGMOU
    This volume analyzes Karl Marx’s understanding of science and technology and how it is associated with his focus on the perspective of history and human practice, seeking to illuminate a renewed understanding of science and technology from a Marxist angle. As the first volume of a three-volume set that proposes to reconsider science and technology and explores how the philosoph...

    $1,160.00

  • THE FOUNDATIONS OF SPACETIME PHYSICS
    ANTONIO VASSALLO
    This book provides an up-to-date overview of the foundations of spacetime physics. It features original essays written by world-class experts in the physics and philosophy of spacetime. The foundational questions regarding the origin and nature of spacetime are branching into new and exciting directions. These questions are not restricted to the quantum gravity program but also...

    $1,160.00

  • RECONSIDERATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY III
    LIU DACHUN / YANG HUILI / FAN SHANSHAN
    Drawing on debates from traditional and postmodern thoughts on science and technology, the title builds a new theoretical framework to reconsider science and technology, integrating the opposing viewpoints that either justify science or negate it. As the third volume of a three-volume set that proposes to reconsider science and technology and explores how the philosophy of scie...

    $1,160.00