Philosophy of science

The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.

Rhetoric and Incommensurability examines the complex relationships among rhetoric, philosophy, and science as they converge on the question of incommensurability, the notion jointly (though not collaboratively) introduced to science studies in 1962 by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend.

In his 2005 bestseller, The Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming scientific consensus has met immovable political obstacles.

The author of Charlatan is "e;the perfect armchair cosmonaut"e; for "e;a very funny and provocative rumination on the big move to off-planet real estate"e; (Mark Haskell Smith, author of Blown).

In The Faith of a Seeker, the author draws upon his lifelong search for truth and understanding, trying to face squarely the difficult issues of faith and science and those raised by biblical criticism.

We learn about life through the lives of others.

Activating the compassionate intelligence of the heart to reconnect to the universe and our spiritual future *; Shows how the heart is connected to our prefrontal cortex and offers a balancing counterweight to the calculating intellect of the lower brain *; Explains how we are stuck in reactive behavior loops resulting from the loss of the nurturing culture of our ancestors *; Reveals how the Heart-Mind Matrix connects us to the universe and is the engine of spiritual evolution Expanding the revolutionary theories of mind explored in the bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Biology of Transcendence, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains how the heart provides the balancing intelligence to the brain's calculating intellect, an innate system of emotional-mental coherence lost generations ago through a breakdown of the nurturing culture of our ancestors.

Ask a young Catholic why they are walking away from the Church and one of the main reasons is usually a perceived conflict between science and Christianity.

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought.

Appeals to human dignity are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time.

To scientists, the tsunami of relativism, scepticism, and postmodernism that washed through the humanities in the twentieth century was all water off a ducks back.

Applying new skills to established topics, this is how you want to examine human geography.

ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and myopic.

From Science to God offers a crash course in the nature of reality.

One man shares the story of his transformation from evangelical Christian to atheist and examines the train of thought that brought him there.

ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and myopic.

Change the story and change the future - merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign AnthropoceneIn Changing Tides, Alejandro Frid tackles the big questions: who, or what, represents our essential selves, and what stories might allow us to shift the collective psyche of industrial civilization in time to avert the worst of the climate and biodiversity crises?

The harmful side of even relatively benign technology is plain to see, but is hardly ever discussed.

Nanotechnology!

Ask a young Catholic why they are walking away from the Church and one of the main reasons is usually a perceived conflict between science and Christianity.

Had enough of people insisting you believe things that aren't true?

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It has been said that science and religion aren't friends.

Who am I?

Is magic real?

In its attempt to ascertain the mechanisms of nature, contemporary science seems to be generating unanswerable questions.

Are humans free, or are we determined by our genes and the world around us?

What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and modern science?

In The Boiler Room Boys: An Underground Story of Science, Religion, and the Faith that Fuels Both, Tim Smith describes how from too-young an age he followed two seemingly alternate paths, religion and science, only to find that they are not alternate at all.

Classical Christian theologies came to expression at a time when the universe seemed relatively fixed and unchanging.

Most of us have experienced the impact of randomness in our lives not only as individuals but in our interactions with others as well.

Is God a superfluous hypothesis for modern cosmology?

The Daniel Fast is essentially a spiritual exercise with numerous health benefits.

It is well known that energy is a fundamental concept in physics.

Science and faith have had a long intertwined history.

If youve ever wondered if a particle can have weight but no mass, why the neutron is neutral or why the electrona negative particledoesnt fly apart when all of its inner parts are presumably negative also, then this book is for you.

'What Fauber does well is humanize these four residents of the pantheon of science.

** An FT Book of the Year and Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize for Sustainability**The Darkness Manifesto urges us to cherish darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth.

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence.

What if there were a pill for love?

What if there were a pill for love?

What if there were a pill for love?

Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher.

The Law and the Word explores the connection between thought energy, scientific reasoning, and creative power.

Thomas Troward was an early New Thought writer who had an immense impact on those who would follow.

Principles of Philosophy was written in Latin by René Descartes.

OUR next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away.

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be.

"e;Highly recommended for fans of Tolkien and Lewis, for those who love literature and ecology, and really for all of us whose capacity for wonder will be expanded by this delightful little book.