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  • Liberty and the Ecological Crisis

    Freedom on a Finite Planet

    Edited by Bruce Jennings, Katie Kish, Christopher Orr ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization’s ability to live within ecological limits.Freedom, in all its renditions – choice, thought, action – has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern citizens. And yet, it is our relatively unbounded freedom that has resulted in so much ecological devastation. Liberty has piggy-backed on ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Intuitionism Resocialized

    Individuals, Communities, and the Evolution of Mathematical Knowledge

    by Kati Kish Bar-On ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book provides a fresh perspective on how mathematicians interpreted and responded to Dutch mathematician L.E.J. Brouwer's ideas. It offers an original outlook on the dynamics between mathematicians, their commitments to their working frameworks, and the establishment of scientific norms. Expanding on the collective scientific work literature, it prompts a dialogue on applying insights from ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

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  • Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Great Discoveries)

    The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

    by Rebecca Goldstein ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    "A gem. . . . An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven PinkerProbing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning— and brought him to the edge of madness. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Theory and Reality

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy

    From Russell to Rawls

    by Stephen P. Schwartz ...
    A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of the historical development of all major aspects of analytic philosophy, the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition in the twentieth century.Features coverage of all the major subject areas and figures in analytic philosophy - including Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Gottlob ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Nature of Mathematics Given Physicalism

    by Magnus Vinding ...
    What is mathematics?This book aims to explore the nature of mathematics given a physicalist ontology. It begins by outlining a physicalist account of the nature of mathematics presented by László Szabó, and proceeds to discuss the main objections faced by this account so as to assess the plausibility of physicalist views of mathematics.It is concluded that it seems possible to accommodate ... Read more

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  • A Parting of the Ways

    Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger

    by Michael Friedman ...
    Since the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent.A Parting of the Ways looks at the origins of this split through the lens of one defining episode: the disputation in Davos, Switzerland, in 1929, between the two most eminent German philosophers, Ernst ... Read more

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  • Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought

    by Vladimir Tasic ...
    This is a charming and insightful contribution to an understanding of the "Science Wars" between postmodernist humanism and science, driving toward a resolution of the mutual misunderstanding that has driven the controversy. It traces the root of postmodern theory to a debate on the foundations of mathematics early in the 20th century, then compares developments in mathematics to what took place ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Realism for Realistic People

    A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science

    by Hasok Chang ...
    In this innovative book, Hasok Chang constructs a philosophy of science for 'realistic people' interested in understanding and promoting the actual practices of inquiry in science and other knowledge-focused areas of life. Inspired by pragmatist philosophy, he reconceives the very notions of reality and truth on the basis of his concept of the 'operational coherence' of epistemic activities, and ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein

    by Hans Sluga ...
    Series Book 34 - Blackwell Great Minds
    wittgenstein“Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with an often original and always profound understanding of Wittgenstein’s work, yielding an accessible and illuminating account of his thought.”Joachim Schulte, University of Zurich“Concise, clear, and accessible, this sophisticated introduction covers an ... Read more

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  • Battle in the Mind Fields

    by John A. Goldsmith, Bernard Laks ...
    "We frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side."Taking note of this phenomenon, John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks embark on a uniquely interdisciplinary history of the genesis of linguistics, from nineteenth-century currents of thought in the mind sciences through ... Read more

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  • The distinction between falsification and refutation in the demarcation problem of Karl Popper

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    Despite the criticism of Karl Popper's falsifiability theory for the demarcation between science and non-science, mainly pseudo-science, this criterion is still very useful, and perfectly valid after it was perfected by Popper and his followers. Moreover, even in his original version, considered by Lakatos as "dogmatic", Popper did not assert that this methodology is an absolute demarcation ... Read more

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