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  • PSA 1970

    In Memory of Rudolf Carnap Proceedings of the 1970 Biennial Meeting Philosophy of Science Association

    Edited by R.C. Buck, Robert S. Cohen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book contains the papers presented at the second biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Boston in Fall, 1970. We have added the paper by Jaakko Hintikka which he was unable to present due to illness, and we have unfortunately not received the paper of Michael Scriven. Otherwise, these proceedings are complete so far as formal presentations. The meeting itself was ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Aristotle's Revenge

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

    by Edward Feser ...
    Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Science

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Alex Rosenberg ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg’s updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume is a much-used, thematically oriented introduction to the field.New features of the Third Edition ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • The Open Universe

    An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    by Karl Popper ...
    The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Out of Time

    A Philosophical Study of Timelessness

    by Samuel Baron, Kristie Miller, Jonathan Tallant ...
    The idea that time does not exist is, for many, unthinkable: time must exist. Almost every experience we have tells us so. There has been plenty of debate around what time is like, but not whether it exists. The goal of this book is to make the absence of time thinkable. Time might not exist. Beginning with an empirically flavoured examination of the 'folk' concept of time, the book explores the ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Emergence

    by Paul Humphreys ...
    Interest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet the concept continues to be viewed with skepticism by many. In this book, Paul Humphreys argues that many of the problems arise from a long philosophical tradition that is overly committed to synchronic reduction and has been overly focused on problems in philosophy of mind. He develops a novel account of ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    An Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Philosophical Issues in Science
    Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following topics:* the mathematical image* platonism* picture-proofs* applied mathematics* Hilbert and Godel* knots and nations* definitions* picture-proofs and Wittgenstein* computation, proof and conjecture ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Time

    Edited by Adrian Bardon, Heather Dyke ...
    Series Book 154 - Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting field.The most comprehensive reference work on the philosophy of time currently availableThe first collection to tackle the ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Paul Humphreys ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings

    Edited by Timothy O'Connor, David Robb ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy
    Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major topics within philosophy of mind. Robb and O'Connor have carefully chosen articles under the following headings:*Substance Dualism and Idealism*Materialism*Mind and Representation*ConsciousnessEach section is prefaced by an introductory essay by the editors which ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Quest for Self-Knowledge

    An Essay in Lonergan's Philosophy

    by Joseph Flanagan ...
    The theme of self-knowledge, introduced by classical philosophers, was taken up and extended by Bernard Lonergan in his major work, Insight. In this innovative and complex study, Lonergan developed a systematic method for understanding the development of self-knowledge. Joseph Flanagan shares with Lonergan the premise that the problem of self-knowledge can be resolved methodically. The purpose of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD