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The Force of the Virtual
Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Gilles Deleuze once claimed that ‘modern science has not found its metaphysics, the metaphysics it needs.’ The Force of the Virtual responds to this need by investigating the consequences of the philosopher’s interest in (and appeal to) ‘the exact sciences.’ In exploring the problematic relationship...
Science as It Could Have Been
Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Could all or part of our taken-as-established scientific conclusions, theories, experimental data, ontological commitments, and so forth have been significantly different? Science as It Could Have Been focuses on a crucial issue that contemporary science studies have often neglected: the issue of...
Questioning Authority
Political Resistance and the Ethic of Natural Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The West is currently witnessing the slow destruction of the classical liberal tradition. The casualties are reason, the willingness to question political or religious authority, and the validity of natural science. Replacing these are a crippling intellectual relativism, political apathy, and a grave...
The War On Science
Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
A passionate and meticulously researched argument against the Harper government's war on science.
In this arresting and passionately argued indictment, award-winning journalist Chris Turner argues that Stephen Harper's attack on basic science, science communication, environmental regulations,...
Unweaving the Rainbow
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2000
**From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal).
Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other...
Unstoppable
Harnessing Science to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future.
In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination...
Voodoo Science:The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how are we to separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? Touching on everything from Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old," and "free energy" machines, to unwarranted hype surrounding the International...
by William Haloupek
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This is one of a planned series called Calculations for Science Fiction Writers. Other chapters will include space travel with constant acceleration, relativistic and nonrelativistic cases, elliptical orbits, rotational dynamics, and more. For those writers who want to get the details right!
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The Making of Modern Science
Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789 - 1914
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word 'scientist' was coined;...
Science in the Marketplace
Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science,...
Philosophy of Science
The Link Between Science and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A great mathematician and teacher bridges the gap between science and the humanities in this exposition of the philosophy of science. Philipp Frank, a distinguished physicist and philosopher in his own right, traces the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein to illustrate philosophy’s ongoing...
by John L. Heilbron
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped...
The Science of Good and Evil
Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2005
From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore)
A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the...
The Very Idea of Modern Science
Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also...