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  • The Environment

    Philosophy, Science, and Ethics

    Edited by William P. Kabasenche, Michael O'Rourke, Matthew H. Slater ...
    Series series Topics in Contemporary Philosophy
    Original essays by leading scholars consider the environment from biological and ethical perspectives.Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers' invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the central philosophical problem posed by the environment involves not what it can teach us about ourselves and our place in the cosmic order ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Designer Biology

    The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems

    by Immaculada de Melo Martin, Valentina Urbanek, William Kabasenche, Nicholas Agar, S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Rebecca Roache, Stephen Jackson, Donald S. Maier, Nicole Hassoun, Benjamin Hale, Sune Holm, Scott Simmons, Allen Thompson, David A. Frank ...
    Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts, this is exemplified in the pursuits ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • A Cooperative Species

    Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

    by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis ...
    A thought-provoking scientific exploration of the evolutionary origins of human cooperation.Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Social Science

    by Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable for social scientists because the choices they make in answering ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $62.99 USD

  • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight

    The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984-2019

    by David C. Krakauer ...
    Series series Compass
    Over the last three decades, the Santa Fe Institute and its network of researchers have been pursuing a revolution in science.Ignoring the boundaries of disciplines and schools and searching for novel fundamental ideas, theories, and practices, this international community integrates the full range of scientific inquiries that will help us to understand and survive on a complex planet.This volume ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Theory of Ecological Communities

    by Mark Vellend ...
    Series Book 57 - Monographs in Population Biology
    A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of community ecology—understanding patterns of diversity and composition of biological variants across space ... Read more

    Was $43.99 USD Now $34.59 USD

  • Key Concepts in Geography

    Edited by Professor Nicholas Clifford, Dr Sarah L Holloway, Dr Stephen P Rice, Professor Gill Valentine ...
    Including ten new chapters on nature, globalization, development and risk, and a new section on practicing geography, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling, standard student resource.Key Concepts in Geography explains the key terms - space, time, place, scale, landscape - that define the language of geography. It is unique in the reference literature as it provides - ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Science, Truth, and Democracy

    by Philip Kitcher ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the role of science in shaping our lives. Kitcher explores the sharp divide between those who believe that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is always valuable and necessary--the purists--and those who believe that it invariably serves the interests of ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Frameworks for Policy Analysis

    Merging Text and Context

    by Raul P. Lejano ...
    Frameworks for Policy Analysis argues that, in order to bring relevance back to policy analysis, we need to approach policy situations as complex phenomena and employ multiple ways of looking at things in order to understand the essential elements of each policy case. The book is an exploration of distinct, sometimes radically different, models for analysis, but it is also a reference for these ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Evolution, Games, and God

    Edited by Martin A. Nowak ...
    Evolution, Games, and God explores how cooperation and altruism, alongside mutation and natural selection, play a critical role in evolution, from microbes to human societies. Inheriting a tendency to cooperate and self-sacrifice on behalf of others may be as beneficial to a population’s survival as the self-preserving instincts of individuals. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Diffractive Ethnography

    Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn

    by Jessica Smartt Gullion ...
    Across intellectual disciplines, the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly disparate realms of indigenous philosophy and quantum physics, the turn invites us to think about intra-actions and assemblages of human and nonhuman entities.This raises epistemological questions about how we know about the world, and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD