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  • Smoke and Mirrors

    How Science Reflects Reality

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Philosophical Issues in Science
    Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible. Yet this wonderful picture of humanity's best efforts at knowledge has been badly bruised by numerous critics. James Robert Brown in Smoke and Mirrors fights back against figures such as Richard Rorty, Bruno Latour, Michael Ruse and Hilary Putnam who have attacked realist accounts of science.But ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • On Foundations Of Seismology: Bringing Idealizations Down To Earth

    by James Robert Brown, Michael A Slawinski ...
    'I can wholeheartedly recommend this book students, researchers, college and university science professors, and readers of The Leading Edge. I also recommend it to all those who want to enrich their own experience of practicing and teaching science with some carefully considered soul searching on how it all fits together in the human story of ‘figuring things out’ … It is written throughout ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    An Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Philosophical Issues in Science
    Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following topics:* the mathematical image* platonism* picture-proofs* applied mathematics* Hilbert and Godel* knots and nations* definitions* picture-proofs and Wittgenstein* computation, proof and conjecture ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Laboratory of the Mind

    Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Philosophical Issues in Science
    Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though most scientists and philosophers would admit their great importance, there has been very little serious study of them. This volume is the first book-length investigation of thought experiments.Starting ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing that only a Platonistic approach can account for concept acquisition in a number of special cases in ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers

    Edited by Professor James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Key Thinkers
    From the 19th century the philosophy of science has been shaped by a group of influential figures. Who were they? Why do they matter? This introduction brings to life the most influential thinkers in the philosophy of science, uncovering how the field has developed over the last 200 years.Taking up the subject from the time when some philosophers began to think of themselves not just as ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts

    Edited by Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell, James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments

    Edited by Michael T Stuart, Yiftach Fehige, James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an invaluable guide and reference source to this multifaceted subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $62.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers

    Edited by Professor James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Key Thinkers
    All the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the present day have been philosophers of science. However, this book concentrates on modern philosophy of science, starting in the nineteenth century and offering coverage of all the leading thinkers in the field including Whewell, Mill, Reichenbach, Carnap, Popper, Feyerabend, Putnam, van Fraassen, Bloor, Latour, Hacking, Cartwright and many ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond

    by Janet G. McCabe, Gabriel M. Filippelli, Kimberly A. Novick, James Shanahan, Eva Sanders Allen, Lingxi Chenyang1, Jeffrey S. Dukes2, Melissa Widhalm3, Ben Kravitz4, Douglas Edmonds5, Chanh Kieu6, Travis A. O'Brien7, Scott Robeson8, Paul Staten9, Brian Yanites0, Chen Zhu1, Sarah Mincey2, Rebecca Lave3, John Baeten4, Justin Maxwell5, Richard Phillips6, Ellen D. Ketterson7, Daniel Becker8, Geoffrey Brown9, Allison Byrd0, Keith Clay1, Adam Fudickar2, Matthew Houser3, Alex Jahn4, Jennifer Ann Lau5, Sarah Wanamaker6, James Robert Farmer7, Elizabeth Grennan Browning8, Heather L. Reynolds9, Samantha L. Hamlin0, Dana Habeeb1, Jeffrey S. Wilson2, Daniel Myers3, Eric Sandweiss4, Beth Edwards5, Nathan Geiger6, Andrea Webster7, David M. Konisky8, Nikolaos Zirogiannis9, Sanya Carley0 ...
    Climate change is affecting Indiana's environment, threatening the way Hoosiers live and do business, and introducing new stresses to the state's economy, health, and infrastructure. And while scientists predict more days of extreme weather, increased public health risks, and reduced agricultural production in the coming years, Hoosiers still have a substantial say in determining their future ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Enduring Motives

    The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America

    by Colin McEwan, Amy Roe, Peter G. Roe, Dr Linea Sundstrom, Ph.D., Dr. Warren DeBoer, Ph.D., Dr. Wesley Bernardini, Ph.D, Dr. John E. Clark, Ph.D0, Dr. Arlene Colman, Ph.D1, Dr. Stephen H. Lekson, Ph.D2, Dr. John Norder, Ph.D3, Dr. John E. Kelly, Ph.D4, Dr. Jeffrey Quilter, Ph.D5, Kelley Hays-Gilpin6, Dr. Alice Beck Kehoe7, Robert L. Hall8, Dr James A. Brown, Ph.D.9, Dr. Cheryl Claassen, Ph.D.0 ...
    Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Classic Ballads: 4 Timeless Books of Traditional Songs

    British and Irish Folk Songs, Romantic Verse, Supernatural Tales, and Historical Romance

    by William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Fletcher, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper, Robert Burns, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Moore, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, James Hogg, William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron, Lord Tennyson ...
    Classic Ballads: 4 Timeless Books of Traditional Songs gathers the ballad tradition in its capacious literary afterlife: tales of courtship, betrayal, warfare, supernatural encounter, exile, and communal memory appear beside lyric meditations and narrative poems shaped by popular song. Its range extends from orally inflected refrains and border legends to Gothic visions, Romantic reverie, dramatic ... Read more

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