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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications
by David Deutsch  Publisher Comments A pioneering and accessible book integrating recent advances in theoretical physics and computer science For David Deutsch, a young physicist of unusual originality, quantum theory contains our most fundamental knowledge of the physical world. Taken...
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Society of Mind
by Marvin Minsky Publisher Comments Describing the mind as a "society" that arises out of ever-smaller, mindless agents, each chapter corresponds to a single puzzle piece and a unified theory of the mind emerges before the eyes. Illustrated....
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The Science Studies Reader
by Mario (edt) Biagioli Publisher Comments The Science Studies Reader is a landmark anthology of writing in the burgeoning new field of science studies. Society and the scientific community are today engaging more thoughtfully than ever before the question of what scientific knowledge might be...
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God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory
by Niall Shanks Publisher Comments In the last fifteen years a controversial new theory of the origins of biological complexity and the nature of the universe has been fomenting bitter debates in education and science policy across North America, Europe, and Australia. Backed by...
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Advancement of Science : Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions (93 Edition)
by Philip Kitcher Publisher Comments During the last three decades, reflections on the growth of scientific knowledge have inspired historians, sociologists, and some philosophers to contend that scientific objectivity is a myth. In this book, Kitcher attempts to resurrect the notions of...
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from "Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of...
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Philosophical Papers #01: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
by Imre Lakatos Publisher Comments Lakatos, who died in 1974, was one of the outstanding younger philosophers of science. Volume 1 of this anthology offers papers on the physical sciences, including a previously unpublished essay on Newton. Volume 2 brings together work, much unpublished,...
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The Essential Tension
by Kuhn Publisher Comments "Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."--Sir Peter Medawar, "Nature"...
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The Mystery of Consciousness
by John R Searle Publisher Comments The question of just how the brain works and the mystery of human consciousness are the most important issues in philosophy and science today. In what began as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books, John R. Searle discusses the arguments of...
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What Is This Thing Called Science? (UK Edition)
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Infinite in All Directions : Gifford Lectures Given At Aberdeen, Scotland April--november 1985 (04 Edition)
by Freeman Dyson Publisher Comments Infinite in All Directions is a popularized science at its best. In Dyson's view, science and religion are two windows through which we can look out at the world around us. The book is a revised version of a series of the Gifford Lectures under the title...
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Objectivity
by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison Publisher Comments The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases--a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices....
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More Than Meets the Eye: Fascinating Glimpses of God's Power and Design
by Richard A Swenson Publisher Comments Is God is involved in the day-to-day existence of creation? As Dr. Richard Swenson examines the details of creation, he shows how God sustains it all in ways we can scarcely comprehend. Dr. Swenson writes about the details of human body, the heavenly...
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What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture
by Edware Slingerland Publisher Comments What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing current approaches to the study of culture. It focuses especially on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics....
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The Moral Authority of Nature
by Lorraine Daston Publisher Comments For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human...
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Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (P.S.)
by Kenneth R. Miller Publisher Comments Written by a distinguished professor at Brown University, this compelling and provocative book demolishing claims that belief in God is incompatible with evolution....
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Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science
by Kelly Bulkeley Publisher Comments "Soul, Psyche, Brain" is a collection of essays that address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature. Kelly Bulkeley's book highlights some startling new developments in neuroscience that have many people rethinking spirituality,...
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Thomas Kuhn (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus)
by Thomas Nickles Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-284) and index....
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Patrick Suppes: Scientific Philosopher Volume Three Philosophy of Language and Logic, Learning and Action Theory
by Paul Humphreys Publisher Comments Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the foundations of physics, education theory, the philosophy of language, measurement theory, and the...
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Science as Spiritual Practice
by Imants Baruss Publisher Comments Presents an argument that there are problems with materialism, shows how access to inner knowledge could be possible in some altered states of consciousness, and analyses Franklin Wolff's mathematical approach to spirituality....
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