Zbirka: Filozofija naravoslovja
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Modelling Scientific Communities(2023) O'CONNOR, CAILIN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE)This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. It argues that while these models are epistemically useful, the best way to employ most of them to understand and improve science is in combination with empirical methodsVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry(2025) VARGA, SOMOGY (AARHUS UNIVERSITET, DENMARK)Amid criticism of medicine's scientific rigor and patient care, this book offers a philosophical examination of the nature and aims of medicine, and new perspectives on how these challenges can be addressed. It offers input for rethinking the agenda of meVezava: Mehka47,51 € -
Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic(2025) PANTSAR, MARKUS (AACHEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)Arithmetic is one of the foundations of our educational systems, but what exactly is it? This book provides a philosophical account of arithmetical knowledge that is based on the state-of-the-art empirical studies of numerical cognition. It explains how hVezava: Mehka47,51 € -
Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60(2025)Since its first edition in 1962, Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions has sold more than one million copies and continues to be read and studied today. This volume of new essays offers a way into Kuhn's philosophy and demonstrates the continuVezava: Mehka51,31 € -
Scientific Realism(2025) LYONS, TIMOTHY D. (INDIANA UNIVERSITY, INDIANAPOLIS)This Element begins at the most foundational level of scientific realism, the endeavor to justify belief in the existence of unobservables by way of abduction. Because it takes scientific realism to be the default position of many-scientific realists themVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Neo-Humean & Mechanismic Paradigms of Inference for Physical Science(2024) AFXENTIOU, PHILIPPOSVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Silent Language of Life(2024) JUST-NASTANSKY, INGEA fascinating glimpse into the secret world of water drops and how they manifest on a range of materials from salt to gemstones and tears. Lavishly illustrated, this is a window into a natural world of astounding beauty.Vezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science(2025) STALEY, KENT W. (SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, MISSOURI)Guiding readers through the central philosophical debates within the philosophy of science, this thoroughly updated second edition includes topics such as scientific rationality, objectivity, and progress; the philosophical importance of scientific modelsVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
Color Meditation(2024) VEENMAN, KEESFrom exploring light therapy to considering the relationship between colours and the seasons, colour specialist Kees Veenman help readers understand the spirituality of colour more clearly.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Philosophy of Symmetry(2024) YII WYE TEH, NICHOLAS JOSHUA (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME)This Element introduces the philosophy of physical symmetry. It stresses both the continuity with historically important themes such as the Relativity Principle, as well as novel insights earned by working with contemporary media such as the covariant phaVezava: Mehka34,22 € -
Hybrid Epistemology as a Solution to Reductionism-Physicalism Issues(2024) AFXENTIOU, PHILIPPOSVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Hearts and Minds(2020) ALEXANDER, WALTERA cross-disciplinary book which encompasses medicine, quantum physics, open-systems biology, consciousness studies, epistemology, the arts and philosophy, to explore our understanding of ourselves and our world.Vezava: Mehka34,98 €
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Logical Foundation for Potentialist Set Theory(2024) BERRY, SHARONBerry discusses motivations for, and alternatives to, the Potentialist approach to set theory, providing a new and more intuitive justification for the standard axioms of set theory. This book will interest students and scholars of the philosophy of set tVezava: Mehka49,42 € -
Of Popes and Unicorns(2021) HUTCHINGS, DAVID (SCIENCE WRITER AND FELLOW, SCIENCE WRITER AND FELLOW, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS),UNGUREANU, JAMES C. (UPPER SCHOOL HUMANITIES TEACHER, UPPER SCHOOL HUMANITIES TEACHER, THE STONY BROOK SCHOOL)Of Popes and Unicorns shares the story of John Draper and Andrew White who, in the late 19th century, published books falsely claiming a toxic history between religion and science. This book examines the implications of Draper and White's conspiracy and dVezava: Trda69,47 €
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Realism for Realistic People(2023) CHANG, HASOK (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)An innovative book in the philosophy of science that will be meaningful and accessible to wider audiences; Chang's pragmatic realism for 'realistic people' should appeal to scholars and students in philosophy, science and history, and all who are concerneVezava: Mehka49,42 €
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Time and Eternity(2001) CRAIG, WILLIAM LANEThis remarkable work offers an analytical exploration of the nature of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.Vezava: Mehka29,44 €
