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Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary

Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary

Author: Andrea Ford ,  Roslyn Malcolm
ISBN: 9781350322981
Format: Paperback
$44.99

From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are...  Read More >>

Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason

Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason

Author: Katherine Brading (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University) ,  Marius Stan (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston College)
ISBN: 9780197678954
Format: Hardback
$202.95

Katherine Brading and Marius Stan provide a new framing of natural philosophy and its transformations in the Enlightenment...  Read More >>

Primes and Particles: Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Physics

Primes and Particles: Mathematics, Mathematical Physics,...

Author: Martin H. Krieger
ISBN: 9783031497759
Format: Hardback
$169.00

Many philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians have wondered about the remarkable relationship between mathematics...  Read More >>

Hydrology and Its Discontents: Contemplations on the Innate Paradoxes of Water Research

Hydrology and Its Discontents: Contemplations on the...

Author: John T. Van Stan II ,  Jack Simmons
ISBN: 9783031497674
Format: Hardback
$131.97

"This book examines the intricate web linking water science and society using diverse philosophical lenses. Highlighting...  Read More >>

The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy: Around Logical Empiricism

The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy:...

Author: Adam Tamas Tuboly (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
ISBN: 9781350290266
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Interpretive understanding of human behaviour, known as verstehen, underpins the divide between the social sciences...  Read More >>

The Metaphysics of Contingency: A Theory of Objects’ Abilities and Dispositions

The Metaphysics of Contingency: A Theory of Objects’...

Author: Ferenc Huoranszki (Central European University (Vienna Campus), Austria) ,  Johannes Brandl
ISBN: 9781350277182
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Philosophers approach the problem of possibility in two markedly different ways: with reference to worlds, whereby...  Read More >>

Advances in Neurophilosophy

Advances in Neurophilosophy

Author: Nora Heinzelmann
ISBN: 9781350349483
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Bringing together recent case studies and insights into current developments, this collection introduces philosophers...  Read More >>

Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future

Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future

Author: Mr Bart Buseyne ,  Dr Georgios Tsagdis
ISBN: 9781350410442
Format: Hardback
$170.00

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Taking Responsibility for Climate Change

Taking Responsibility for Climate Change

Author: Säde Hormio
ISBN: 9783031517525
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book proposes that it is not only states and international bodies that have a responsibility to take action...  Read More >>

Beyond the Brain: How the Mind and the Body Shape Each Other

Beyond the Brain: How the Mind and the Body Shape Each...

Author: Duoyi Fei
ISBN: 9789811995606
Format: Paperback
$343.17

Different from traditional research on the mind-body problem often discussed from an epistemological viewpoint, which...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce

The Oxford Handbook of Charles S. Peirce

Author: Cornelis de Waal (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University Indianapolis)
ISBN: 9780197548561
Format: Hardback
$338.00

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is likely the greatest philosophical thinker America has ever produced. His contributions...  Read More >>

The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics...

Author: Heinrich Päs
ISBN: 9781837730308
Format: Paperback
$28.99

A particle physicist makes the scientific case for an ancient idea about thenature of the universe: that all is...  Read More >>

Questions: Brief Books about Big Ideas

Questions: Brief Books about Big Ideas

Author: Pia Lauritzen
ISBN: 9781421447148
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A short but engaging look at how questions shape our thinking. Why do we ask questions? In Questions, Pia Lauritzen...  Read More >>

The Metaphysics of Michael Polanyi: Toward a Post-Critical Platonism

The Metaphysics of Michael Polanyi: Toward a Post-Critical...

Author: Martin E. Turkis II
ISBN: 9783031412103
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book tells the story of how the Platonic vision of Michael Polanyi – the Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher...  Read More >>

Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics

Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics...

Author: Dr Matteo Mameli
ISBN: 9781350189751
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature?...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities

The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences,...

Author: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009376013
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Fitness, natural selection, common ancestry, mutation, chance, taxonomy, and adaptation are central concepts in...  Read More >>

History of Rationalities: Ways of Thinking from Vico to Hacking and Beyond

History of Rationalities: Ways of Thinking from Vico...

Author: Luca Sciortino
ISBN: 9783031240065
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Variational Principles in Physics

Variational Principles in Physics

Author: Jean-Louis Basdevant
ISBN: 9783031216947
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This revised and enhanced new edition of a well-established textbook provides a balanced overview of various areas...  Read More >>

The Impact and Value of Science

The Impact and Value of Science

Author: Douglas W. Hill
ISBN: 9781032201085
Format: Paperback
$58.99

"First published in 1945, The Impact and Value of Science is both a plea and a challenge: a plea for more and more...  Read More >>

Humean Bodies and their Consequences

Humean Bodies and their Consequences

Author: Ruth Weintraub
ISBN: 9783031507984
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching...  Read More >>

Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics

Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics...

Author: Dr Matteo Mameli
ISBN: 9781350189744
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature?...  Read More >>

Moral AI: And How We Get There

Moral AI: And How We Get There

Author: Jana Schaich Borg ,  Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
ISBN: 9780241454749
Format: Hardback
$45.00

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