The Concept of Nature
First published in 1920, this classic series of Tarner Lectures by Whitehead represents an early attempt to get to grips with the new physics of…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
The Natural and the Human
This book is the third volume of a magnum opus on science and the shaping of modernity - previous volumes have covered the periods 1210…… Read More »
Ockham's Razors
Most readers will be familiar with Occam's razor or the principle of parsimony that states that simpler theories are better than more complex ones, other…… Read More »
Images of Time – Mind, Science, Reality
A fascinating and wide-ranging study of time, drawing on physics, mathematics, philosophy, religion, history, science fiction and even films. A leitmotif throughout the book is…… Read More »
Black Holes - a Very Short Introduction
This book describes not only the physics underlying the phenomenon of black holes, but also the history of thinking about these issues that led to…… Read More »
Junk DNA
Following her earlier book, The Epigenetics Revolution, Nessa Carey takes the reader on a tour through what she calls the dark matter of the genome,…… Read More »
Origins
Subtitled 'the scientific story of creation', this book is a real tour de force covering origins since the beginning of the universe, namely of space,…… Read More »
Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Authors: Kostas Kampourakis, Ronald L Numbers
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Although the blurb uses the strong word 'debunking' this book is in fact more about setting the record straight by correcting misrepresentations and misconceptions about…… Read More »
Letters from the Malay Archipelago
Authors: Alfred Russel Wallace, John van Wyhe, Kees Rookmaker
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
The Network held a conference in 2008 to mark the 150th anniversary of the joint paper delivered to the Linnean Society by Wallace and Darwin.…… Read More »
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 »