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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive John Stuart Mill · 1843 · ★ 3.8 · 570p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Méthodologie, Sciences, Methodology, Theory of Knowledge with this book.
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Science and Method (Key Texts) Henri Poincaré · 1900 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Méthodologie, Sciences, Methodology, Science with this book.
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The philosophy of science Stephen Edelston Toulmin · 1953 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Wetenschapsfilosofie, Science, Philosophy with this book.
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper · 1935 · ★ 4.0 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century. Shares Méthodologie, Sciences, Methodology, Science
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Essays on politics and society John Stuart Mill · 1963 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Méthodologie, Sciences, Methodology, Theory of Knowledge with this book.
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Against Method Paul K. Feyerabend · 1975 · ★ 4.0 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Moderate **Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge** is a 1975 book about the philosophy of science by Paul Feyerabend, in which the author argues that science is an anarchic enterprise, not a nomic (customary) one. In the context of this work, the term anarchy refers to epistemological anarchy. (Source: Wikipedia) Shares Sciences, Methodology, Theory of Knowledge, Knowledge
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The advancement of learning Francis Bacon · 1605 · ★ 4.4 · 115p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The Advancement of Learning (full title: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human) is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon. It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer-essayist Catherine Drinker Bowen with being a pioneering essay in support of empirical philosophy. Shares Méthodologie, Sciences, Methodology, Theory of Knowledge
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Discours de la méthode René Descartes · 1644 · ★ 3.8 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Challenging By an almost universal agreement among philosophers and historians, Rene' Descartes is considered the originator of modern philosophy, or at least the first important philosopher of our times. If we add to this the common belief that philosophy points the way for developments in all other fields, it will be evident that to Descartes is ascribed an importance comparable to that of the beginnings… Shares Méthodologie, Sciences, Methodology, Science
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The common sense of science Jacob Bronowski · 1951 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable. Shares Science, Philosophy, History
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Critiques of knowing Lynette Hunter · 1999 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Wetenschapsfilosofie, Theory of Knowledge, Knowledge, Science with this book.
Zhongguo zao qi ke ji qi kan hui bian
Zhongguo zao qi ke ji qi kan hui bian Yasha Jiang · 2008 · 739p · ≈ 24h · Moderate Shares Technology, Science with this book.
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Decline of Science in England Charles Babbage · 1830 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Challenging xvi, 228 p. 22 cm Shares Science, History
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy John Stuart Mill · 1865 · 650p · ≈ 21h · Demanding "In this book, John Stuart Mill examines the philosophy of Sir William Hamilton and discusses the principal philosophical questions in his writings. The acknowledged position of Hamilton at the head of the school of philosophy to which he belongs, has principally determined Mill to connect with his name and writings the speculations and criticisms contained in the present work. The justification… Shares Methodology, Theory of Knowledge, Science, Philosophy
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The Nature of the Physical World Arthur Stanley Eddington · 1928 · ★ 4.1 · 370p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Sciences, Theory of Knowledge, Science, Philosophy with this book.
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La valeur de la science Henri Poincaré · 1905 · ★ 4.2 · 152p · ≈ 5h · Moderate La recherche de la verite doit etre le but de notre activite ; c'est la seule fin qui soit digne d'elle. Sans doute nous devons d'abord nous efforcer de soulager les souffrances humaines, mais pourquoi ? Shares Sciences, Methodology, Science, Philosophy
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Longitude Dava Sobel · 1995 · ★ 4.3 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude,… Shares Science, History
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Χαρμίδης Plato · 1977 · ★ 3.5 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "Crois-tu qu'une ville serait bien gouvernée, si la loi ordonnait à chacun de tisser et de laver son vêtement, de tisser ses chaussures, sa burette à huile, son étrille et le tout le reste de même, sans mettre la main aux affaires d'autrui..." L'évocation de la priorité donnée aux affaires privées n'a rien d'étonnant dans le Charmide pour qui connaît l'entêtement de Platon à souligner l'état… Shares Theory of Knowledge, Knowledge, Philosophy
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Novacene James Lovelock · 2019 · ★ 3.8 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Technology, Philosophy with this book.

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