18 books like Essays on politics and society
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
This book deals on self-belief that social planning and political action should rely primarily on scientific knowledge, not on authority, custom, revelation, or prescription.
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as…
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The advancement of learning
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.
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An introduction to logic and scientific method
Much as he considered himself a philosopher, Morris Raphael Cohen was also immersed in the machinery of social life. From his first years of "engagement" as a volunteer teacher in Thomas Davidson's school for working-class people, to his last as professor of philosophy at New York's City College and at the University of Chicago, he constantly sought to understand the underlying…
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy
"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…
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Conjectures and refutations
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most comprehensive and well-known books, distinguished not only for its sharp analysis of the development of scientific knowledge but also for extending those insights to politics and history. It offers a clear and accessible explanation of the core principle that shaped his work: both our knowledge and our objectives and standards evolve…
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Science and Method (Key Texts)
Henri Poincare's Science and Method is an examination of the process scientists go through when determining which of the countless facts before them will be most useful in advancing scientific knowledge. In this highly readable text-first published in 1908 and here presented in a 1914 translation by Francis Maitland-Poincare investigates mathematics, logic, physics, mechanics, and astronomy and…
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The principles of science
With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.
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Discours de la méthode
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…
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Wissenschaft der Logik
"Wissenschaft der Logik" von Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,des berühmte deutschen Philosophs und mit wichtigsten Vertreters des berühmten deutschen Idealismus, enthält u. a.:Wissenschaft der Logik Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelsAllgemeiner Begriff der LogikAllgemeine Einteilung der LogikDie Lehre vom SeinWomit muß der Anfang der Wissenschaft gemacht werden?Allgemeine Einteilung des SeinsErster…
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Improving Intelligence Analysis
This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more established academic disciplines of political science and international relations, intelligence studies scholarship…
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Against Method
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.
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The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace
How is knowledge produced and used in cyberspace? David Hakken - a key figure in the anthropology of science and technology studies - approaches the study of cyberculture through the venue of knowledge production, drawing on critical theory from anthropology, philosophy and informatics (computer science) to examine how the character and social functions of knowledge change profoundly in…
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The Nature of the Physical World
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La valeur de la science
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 ?
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The Fairyland of Science
The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, the Fairyland of Science. It travels over a wide field, pointing out a few of the marvellous facts which can be studied and enjoyed by the help of optical instruments. It will be seen at a glance that any one of the subjects dealt with might be made the study of a lifetime, and that the…
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Longitude
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,…
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A history of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom
In this important work, which spawned a great deal of controversy at its appearance, White exhaustively documents the battle between science and religion in matters of creation versus evolution, the geocentric versus the heliocentric universe, and the "fall of man" versus anthropology. The struggle of science over outmoded medieval concepts is still emerging.
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