Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
$29.99 Add to cartThe general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be furth… [more below]
- Author: Firestein, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019939010X
- Language: English
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Darwin Devolves
$17.99 Add to cartThe scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and
- Author: Behe, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0062842668
- Language: English
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Great Minds Don’t Think Alike: Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, Ai, Immortality, and the Human
$19.95 Add to cartDoes technology change who we are, and if so, in what ways? Can humanity transcend physical bodies and spaces? Will AI and genetic engineering help us reach new heights or will they unleash dystopias?
- Author: Gleiser, Marcelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0231204116
- Language: English
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Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Prigogine, Ilya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1786631008
- Language: English
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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
$19.95 Add to cartNobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theory
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly hav- Author: Penrose, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178534
- Language: English
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The World As I See It
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 05 2007
- ISBN10: 9562912493
- Language: English
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The World As I See It
$17.99 Add to cartA fascinating collection of Einstein’s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius’s intellect
In the aftermath of the First World War, Einstei… [more below]- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1453204989
- Language: English
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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
$26.00 Add to cartIn this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the “bodies” that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envi… [more below]
- Author: Hayles, N. Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0226321460
- Language: English
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A Philosopher Looks at Science
$16.99 Add to cartWhat is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically re… [more below]
- Series: A Philosopher Looks at
- Author: Cartwright, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1009201883
- Language: English
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
$20.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people–from relig… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 143917122X
- Language: English
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Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on the evolution debates comes this critically acclaimed investigation into one of the most controversial topics of our times
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Miller, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0061233501
- Language: English
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Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
$19.99 Add to cartIn Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather … [more below]
- Series: William Patrick Book
- Author: Norman, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 1994
- ISBN10: 0201626950
- Language: English
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Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World
$23.00 Add to cartQuantum Psychology offers a coherent and humorous description of how our thoughts, values and behaviors have been colored by our use of language and our prevailing view of the universe. While Quantum … [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Robert Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0692767045
- Language: English
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Letters from Lake Como: Explorations on Technology and the Human Race
$17.99 Add to cartThis book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity i… [more below]
- Series: Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought
- Author: Guardini, Romano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: June 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0802801080
- Language: English
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Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings
$14.00 Add to cartProvocative, stimulating, and insightful, Einstein and Buddha points to the far-reaching and profound parallels between Western scientific thought and Eastern religion. These remarkably similar discip… [more below]
- Series: Parallel Sayings
- Author: McFarlane, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 20 2002
- ISBN10: 1569753377
- Language: English
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Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
$24.95 Add to cartThe science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according to natural science,
- Author: Graves, Joseph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200676
- Language: English
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Society of Mind
$23.00 Add to cartMarvin Minsky — one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT — gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: “How does the mind work?… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Book
- Author: Minsky, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0671657135
- Language: English
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
$17.99 Read moreMany appreciate Richard P. Feynman’s contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him — how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0465023940
- Language: English
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The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphere
What is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the world? In recent years, philosophers and scientists ha- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130791
- Language: English
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Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
$18.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller
CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year
It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley ex
- Author: Kotler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0062429663
- Language: English
