The Secrets of Bees
If you want to know about the life-cycle and development of the bee, this is the book for you, written by an expert biodynamic beekeeper…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
The Discrete Charm of the Machine
This book explains the genesis and development of the transformation from analogue to digital representing a shift from continuous to discrete in terms of 0…… Read More »
Goethe and Steiner as Pioneers of Emergence
Although short, this essay provides some significant insights into the evolution of the concept of emergence, grounding it in a qualitative holistic understanding. Like Andrew…… Read More »
Thinking About Technology
In the first sentence of this stimulating book, the author observes that thinking about technology is not the same as thinking technologically, by which he…… Read More »
Where are we Heading?
Ian Hodder is an archaeologist who is professor of anthropology at Stamford, and brings an unusual turn of mind to his discussion of the evolution…… Read More »
Rediscovering Darwin
As was also the case with Newton, Darwin's influence was subject to the larger currents of his time and key phrases such as the survival…… Read More »
IS THERE PURPOSE IN BIOLOGY?
Denis Alexander is one of the foremost scholars in the science and religion field as former chair of the molecular immunology programme at the Babraham…… Read More »
EVERYTHING FLOWS
Authors: Daniel J. Nicholson, John Dupré
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
This significant volume is one of the main outcomes from a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council on process philosophy of biology.…… Read More »
SCIENCE AND HUMANITY
The author of this brilliant and wide-ranging book on science, philosophy and meaning is a professor of physics at Oxford specialising in experimental and theoretical…… Read More »
UNDERSTANDING MAMMALS
When I read Wolfgang Schad's book, Man and Mammals: Toward a Biology of Form (Waldorf Press, 1977), some 20 years ago, I had a threefold…… Read More »