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  • Language as a Scientific Tool

    Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions

    Modifié par Miles MacLeod, Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman, Ekaterina Smirnova ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD

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  • Rules

    A Short History of What We Live By

    par Lorraine Daston ...
    Collections series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, ... En savoir plus

    $56.09 CAD

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  • Does God Exist

    An Answer For Today

    par Hans Kung ...
    Does God exist? The question implies another: Who is God? This book is meant to give an answer to both questions and to give reasons for this answer. Does God exist? Yes or no? Many are at a loss between belief and unbelief; they are undecided, skeptical. They are doubtful about their belief, but they are also doubtful about their doubting. There are still others who are proud of their doubting. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Inventing the Universe

    Why we can't stop talking about science, faith and God

    par Dr Alister E McGrath ...
    We just can't stop talking about the big questions around science and faith. They haven't gone away, as some predicted they might; in fact, we seem to talk about them more than ever. Far from being a spent force, religion continues to grow around the world. Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists argue that religion is at war with science - and that we have to choose between them.It's time ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Physicist and the Philosopher

    Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time

    par Jimena Canales ...
    The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Restless Clock

    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

    par Jessica Riskin ...
    A "wide-ranging, witty, and astonishingly learned" scientific and cultural history of the concept of the capacity to act in nature ( London Review of Books).Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Einstein and Religion

    Physics and Theology

    par Max Jammer ...
    The philosophy of religion and the quest for spiritual truth preoccupied Albert Einstein--so much that it has been said "one might suspect he was a disguised theologian." Nevertheless, the literature on the life and work of Einstein, extensive as it is, does not provide an adequate account of his religious conception and sentiments. Only fragmentarily known, Einstein's ideas about religion have ... En savoir plus

    $52.79 CAD

  • The Myth of the Framework

    In Defence of Science and Rationality

    par Karl Popper ...
    In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject.Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Not Thinking like a Liberal

    par Raymond Geuss ...
    In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world’s most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive that for most people in the West it is background noise, the natural state of affairs. But there are nooks and crannies in every society where the ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Mathematics without Apologies

    Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

    par Michael Harris, Michael Harris ...
    An insightful reflection on the mathematical soulWhat do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of ... En savoir plus

    $30.79 CAD

  • Sediments of Time

    On Possible Histories

    par Reinhart Koselleck ...
    Collections series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Translation Zone

    A New Comparative Literature

    par Emily Apter ...
    Collections series Translation/Transnation
    Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD