Philosophy of science

Epistemology has traditionally been motivated by a desire to respond to skeptical challenges.

Epistemology has traditionally been motivated by a desire to respond to skeptical challenges.

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other?

Philosophy of Medicine asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we think of it?

Philosophy of Medicine asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we think of it?

Special relativity provides the foundations of our knowledge of space and time.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement.

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other?

Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician.

Science and Human Values was originally a lecture by Jacob Bronowski at MIT in 1953.

Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician.

The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse.

Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century.

Reflections on a Surprising Universe takes the reader beyond the headlines of the latest scientific breakthroughs, translating complicated topics into an understandable narrative.

Does human life have any meaning?

What is science?

This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William Bynum, and the cover design is by Damien Hirst.

Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYA revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.

Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The Dutch bestseller Nominated for Le Prix Nicolas Bouvier'A masterclass in storytelling, exploring who we are and where we came from' Danielle Clode 'Gripping and brilliantly told, We Hominids deftly blends personal experience with a journalist's eye for a remarkable story' Mark McKennaWHO ARE WE?

A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds.

A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science.

A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement.

Galileo once wrote that 'the Bible tells us how to go to Heaven, but not how the heavens go'.

A book which offers fresh perspectives on the scientific developments of the past hundred years through the complementary work of two of the century's greatest thinkers, Einstein and Freud.

'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) fue uno de los filosofos mas influyentes del siglo XX.

This series of books is meant to present the fundamentals of reasoning well in a clear manner accessible to both scholars and students.

'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) fue uno de los filosofos mas influyentes del siglo XX.

The bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang.

A spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth's conjuror - the great philosopher, scientist and magician, Dr John Dee (1527-1608) and a history of Renaissance science that could well be the next 'Longitude'.

From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.

First time in ebook format, this biography of Isaac Newton reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries.

This new ebook from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry.

The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats-and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves.

In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies.

In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies.

The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays' was first published in 1919.