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The Continued Exercise of Reason
Public Addresses by George Boole
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Lectures, many never before published, that offer insights into the early thinking of the mathematician and polymath George Boole.
George Boole (1815–1864), remembered by history as the developer of an eponymous form of algebraic logic, can be considered a pioneer of the information age not...
A Vast Machine
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.
Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing...
Gravity's Kiss
The Detection of Gravitational Waves
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves.
Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September 2015, came a “very interesting event” (as...
Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe
US Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
How America used its technological leadership in the 1950s and the 1960s to foster European collaboration and curb nuclear proliferation, with varying degrees of success.
In the 1950s and the 1960s, U.S. administrations were determined to prevent Western European countries from developing independent...
Mindvaults
Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
An argument that the uniquely human capacities of pretending and imagining develop in response to sociocultural and sociopolitical pressures in childhood.
The human mind has the capacity to vault over the realm of current perception, motivation, emotion, and action, to leap—consciously and...
Language, Thought, and Reality
Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Writings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and meaning, and the "Yale Report."
The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape...
Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions
Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
An account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom, neoliberal bust, and citizens' revolution.
Ecuador is biologically diverse, petroleum rich, and economically poor. Its extraordinary biodiversity has attracted attention and...
Groundless Grounds
A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
An in-depth comparison of Wittgenstein and Heidegger shows how the views of both philosophers emerge from a fundamental attempt to dispense with the transcendent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are two of the most important—and two of the most difficult—philosophers of the twentieth...
by George Saliba
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance.
The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing...
The Boundaries of Babel
The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The new edition of a pioneering book that examines research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences.
In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro describes an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive...
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry
Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5.
Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis,...
The Neural Basis of Free Will
Criterial Causation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
A neuroscientific perspective on the mind–body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation.
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific...
Disturbed Consciousness
New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.
In Disturbed Consciousness, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors—some...
Listening in the Field
Recording and the Science of Birdsong
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The transformation of sound recording into a scientific technique in the study of birdsong, as biologists turned wildlife sounds into scientific objects.
Scientific observation and representation tend to be seen as exclusively visual affairs. But scientists have often drawn on sensory experiences...