Failure
This is the sequel to the author's book Ignorance, and builds on some of its insights. The main thrust of the book will be familiar…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Of Science
Science, Philosophy and Sustainability
Authors: Angela Guimaraes Pereira, Silvio Funtowicz
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Philosophy Of Science
I feel I must begin with a comment on the Taylor and Francis/Earthscan pricing policy, which you can see above. Here is a book that…… Read More »
It Started with Copernicus
This book is an updated and revised version of a book first published in 2006. It is a good introduction to the philosophy of science,…… Read More »
The Tyranny of Science
The Tyranny of Science arose from a series of lectures originally entitled 'What is knowledge? What is science?' that Paul Feyerabend gave to a general…… Read More »
On Being
Peter Atkins is well known as an exponent of scientific materialism and absolute believer in the adequacy of this approach to answer any and every…… Read More »
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science
Widely acclaimed by specialists in the field, this Companion serves as an overall introduction to the subject. The four parts deal with the historical and…… Read More »
Beyond the Hoax
Alan Sokal is famous, even notorious, for his spoof article parodying post-modernists and which was published in the cultural studies Journal Social Text in 1996.…… Read More »
R.E.A.L.I.T.Y.
The biggest questions, pursued to their end, all start to shimmer into one. Why is there something, rather than nothing? Why is the universe the…… Read More »
Continental Philosophy of Science
This book fills a lacuna in British philosophy of science texts, where little if any attention is paid to currents of thought in Continental Europe…… Read More »
Leaving us to Wonder
This book is the outcome of a collaboration between a biologist and a philosopher posing the question of how to live well in a technoscientific…… Read More »