An Innovative Nation Revisited
Author: Thomas Barlow
In Australia we believe we are innately innovative and original people. Yet in recent years a pessimism has grown within the national psyche - that Australia is being left behind by an accelerating world. If you're tired ... |
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The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities
Author: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate the conditions an entity must satisfy to be a living individual. He explores the reason for this failure and ... |
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Author: Andy Clark
Mindware is an introductory text with a difference. In eight short chapters it tells a story and invites the reader to join in some up-to-the-minute conceptual discussion of the key issues, problems, and opportunities in ... |
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Author: Alexander George & Daniel Velleman
During the first few decades of the twentieth century, philosophers and mathematicians mounted a sustained effort to clarify the nature of mathematics. This led to considerable discord, even enmity, and yielded fascinati ... |
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The Technological Condition - An Anthology
Author: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
This anthology brings together, for the first time, a collection of both seminal historical and contemporary essays on the nature of technology and its relation to humanity. Its selections not only situate technology in ... |
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Rediscovering the Soul of Matter
Author: Christian De Quincey
Do animals have souls? Do worms and insects feel pain or pleasure? Can trees feel anything at all? Ever wondered where in the great unfolding of evolution consciousness first appeared? If questions like these intrigue yo ... |
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Author: Ursula W. Goodenough
This volume reconciles the modern scientific understanding of reality with our timeless spiritual yearnings for reverence and continuity, examining topics such as evolution, emotions, sexuality, and death. Goodenough wri ... |
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A Turn Around the World of Science
Author: Steve Jones
THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that brings clarity to almost a ... |
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Author: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
This set of original essays by some of the best names in philosophy of science explores a range of diverse issues in the intersection of biology and epistemology. It asks whether the study of life requires a special biol ... |
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Author: Charles Birch
Birch confronts the impression conveyed by modern biology that it explains all that is to be known about life. While biology has had a superb history of explaining the objective aspects of life, it has been unable to dea ... |
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A Beginner's Guide
Author: Aaron D. Levine
Would you drink milk from a cloned cow? When will we be able to clone humans? How would you react if a friend's child was a genetic clone of herself? Could the science of cloning provide the cure to Alzheimer's? Ever sin ... |
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A Historical Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
Author: Alan Musgrave
Can we know anything for certain? Dogmatists think we can, sceptics think we cannot, and epistemology is the great debate between them. Some dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of the senses. Sceptics object th ... |
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Author: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
The philosophy of biology is one of the most exciting new areas in the field of philosophy and one that is attracting much attention from working scientists. This Companion, edited by two of the founders of the field, in ... |
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Author: Rene Descartes
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. It includes D ... |
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The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking
Author: David Perkins
From Archimedes' discovery of the principle of water displacement to Einstein's Theory of Relativity; from Brunelleschi's development of perspective drawing to the Impressionist revolution; from the taming of fire to the ... |
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Selection, Adaptation and Progress in Evolutionary Biology
Author: Timothy Shanahan
No other scientific theory has had as tremendous an impact on our understanding of the world as Darwin's theory as outlined in his Origin of Species, yet from the very beginning the theory has been subject to controversy ... |
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On the Emergence of Life and Meaning
Author: Niels Gregersen
Brings together a group of scholars in the sciences of complexity, and workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the implications of complexity studies. This book includes an introduction to complexity ... |
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The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air
Author: Joe Sherman
From a baby's first breath-that universal and fundamental entry into life outside the womb-air is taken for granted. Joe Sherman's Gasp is an entertaining investigation of air and the discoveries of how it works in the b ... |
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Author: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something ... |
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