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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars.
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by Stanislaw Kapuscinski (aka Stan I.S. Law)
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
The book, the author writes, is: “Dedicated to Richard Dawkins, in gratitude for many hours of enjoyable reading. While he and I don’t always see eye to eye, the doctor might find, here, additional arguments for his Cause Célèbre.”
The author goes on to advance compelling arguments...
Bread and Roses
Non theism as product of mathematical and scientific spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Written for readers who have become disenchanted with institutional religion and whose life experience has led them to have serious doubts about the existence of any sort of God. A number of books have been published which brilliantly present the arguments of nontheism. Unfortunately too many of these...
by P.J. Lowry
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
This is a book that is full of questions that were posted and my own answers to them. While the focus is on Atheism and Religion, there are other off topic questions tossed in there for variety and cause those were good answers too. This was going to be the Q&A section of my next Atheist book,...
Mobilizing Science
Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Mobilizing Science theoretically and empirically explores the rise of a new kind of social movement—one that attempts to empower citizens through the use of expert scientific research. Sabrina McCormick advances theories of social movements, development, and science and technology studies by examining...
Of Apes and Ancestors
Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?
In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin's recently published Origin...
Reoccupy Earth
Notes toward an Other Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The book offers an unfashionable but spirited defense of an enlightened anthropocentrism – one that insists not on the free human individual but on collective sustainable agency.
by Andrew Copson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the eighteenth century onwards, some...
There Is No God
Atheists in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
There is No God: Atheists in America answers several questions pertaining to how the atheist population has grown from relatively small numbers to have a disproportionately large impact on important issues of our day, such as the separation of church and state, abortion, gay marriage, and public school...
by Rafal Urbaniak
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of philosopher Stanislaw Leśniewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of output by one of the master logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The author’s nuanced survey eschews secondary commentary, analyzing...
Methodological Variance
Essays in Epistemological Ontology and the Methodology of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo, Newton, Max Planck, Einstein and others devoted their entire lifetimes?...
by Christopher Hookway
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary debates in the philosophy of...
Exercise and Eating Disorders
An Ethical and Legal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels. This is also the first book to examine this issue from...
China's Transition to Modernity
The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
The figure of Dai Zhen (1724�1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings....