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Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. ‘A deeply …
"This volume assembles twelve texts published between 1892 and 1915 . . . . The editors allow one to see the genesis of the ideas of Duhem, philosopher and historian, of the …
First Published in 1982 Philosophy and the New Physics is a compact and yet remarkably rich excursion through the history of physics from Newtonian mechanics to quantum physics. …
While women's participation in the national economic growth is seen as critical to sustainable development, women's underrepresentation in Cameroon's higher institutions, such as …
In the wake of The Making of a Counter Culture Theodore Roszak established himself as the pre-eminent critic of twentieth-century American society and technocracy. Roszak later …
The value of "personal responsibility" increasingly stands at the center of contemporary discussions about distributive justice and the welfare state. While deep disagreements …
How long do we have left until the human race goes extinct? The Doomsday Argument uses basic probability theory to give a forecast about how many more humans will exist by …
Why do we observe phenomena that necessitate indeterminacy prior to observation? Why don't we notice quantum phenomena at scales similar to our own? How can we intuitively …
Skepticism is one of the perennial problems of philosophy: from antiquity, to the early modern period of Descartes and Hume, and right through to the present day. It remains a …
Trotz vielf ltiger Ablenkungen ist die Mathematik in den knapp 300 St cken der Korrespondenzen dieses Bandes wieder ein dominantes Thema. Mehrere Auseinandersetzungen begleitet …