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Science and the human temperament
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The common sense of science
Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable.
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Kant; a collection of critical essays
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Fragments of science
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Decline of Science in England
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Illustrations of universal progress
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Short studies on great subjects
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas' Financial Times'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it is highly recommended' the Independent'(Greene) send(s) the reader's imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride. As a popularizer of exquisitely abstract science, he is both a skilled and kindly explicator' the New York…
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My Philosophical Development
Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his Hegelian period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science. He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of idealism and adoption of a mathematical logic founded upon that of Giuseppe Peano. After two chapters on Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), he passes to…
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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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Principia philosophiae
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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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Reason & violence
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The fundamental questions of philosophy
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The Universe
A readable introduction to scientific facts about the earth, the solar system, and the universe.
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De caelo
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Women, Science and Technology
"Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm."--Pub. desc.
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