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  • Natural Philosophy

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Interconnected Sciences and Philosophies of Nature

    by Wilhelm Ostwald, Logan Lambert ...
    Translated by Thomas Seltzer ...
    In "Natural Philosophy," Wilhelm Ostwald presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the principles governing nature, bridging the gap between science and philosophy. The work is characterized by its clear, coherent prose and systematic approach, reflecting the era's burgeoning interest in the unification of knowledge. Ostwald's inquiry delves into the fundamental concepts of energy, matter, and ... Read more

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  • Natural Philosophy

    by Wilhelm Ostwald ...
    Translated by Thomas Seltzer ...
    Along with several collaborators, Russian-born chemist Wilhelm Ostwald is regarded as one of the key figures in developing the field now known as physical chemistry. In 1909, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on catalysis and several other key processes. In this comprehensive volume, Ostwald lays out a complete scientific system and relates it to many other topics, including cognition ... Read more

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    Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

    by Morris F. Cohen ...
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  • The Art of Philosophizing

    And Other Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Three essays on mathematics, logic, and philosophy from the Noble Prize–winning author of A History of Western Philosophy.The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of Communist aggression and more with "the art ... Read more

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  • The King of Infinite Space

    Euclid and His Elements

    by David Berlinski ...
    Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over two thousand years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics In The King of Infinite Space, renowned mathematics writer David Berlinski provides a concise homage to this elusive ... Read more

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  • Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

    by Henri Bergson ...
    "Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness" is Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis which was first published in 1889. In the work Bergson introduces us to his theory of duration, a response to Kant's ideas regarding free will as something only possible outside of time and space. Bergson argues that the traditional concept of free will is merely confusion among philosophers ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Nature

    by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ...
    In this externality the determinations of the concept have the appearance of an indifferent subsistence and isolation in regards to each other. The concept therefore exists as an inward entity. Hence nature exhibits no freedom in its existence, but only necessity and contingency. For this reason nature, in the determinate existence, which makes it nature, is not to be deified, nor are the sun, ... Read more

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  • The Concept of Nature

    by Alfred North Whitehead ...
    This volume on ‘the Concept of Nature’ forms a companion book to my previous work An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. Either book can be read independently, but they supplement each other. In part the present book supplies points of view which were omitted from its predecessor; in part it traverses the same ground with an alternative exposition. For one thing, mathematical ... Read more

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  • The Metaphysics Within Physics

    by Tim Maudlin ...
    What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical theory? Physics straightforwardly postulates quarks and electrons, but what of the more intangible elements, such as laws of nature, universals, causation and the direction of time? Do they have a place in the physical structure of the world? Tim Maudlin argues that the ontology derived from physics takes a form quite different from ... Read more

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  • The Forbidden History of Science

    by Mike ...
    "The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer." – Terence McKennaAt school, you are taught "science". You are not taught the history of science, so you have no idea how science came to be the institution it now is. Above all, you have no idea that science is a vast, rigid system of dogmatism and ideology, an inflexible paradigm, an incomplete and inconsistent set of heuristic ... Read more

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  • Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge. First published in 1948, this provocative work contributed ... Read more

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