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  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures

    de James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value?This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-standard topics such ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Laboratory of the Mind

    Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences

    de James Robert Brown ...
    Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain a greater understanding of the natural world? How is it possible that we can learn new things just by thinking?In this revised and updated new ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    An Introduction to a World of Proofs and Pictures

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Rational and the Social (RLE Social Theory)

    How to Understand Science in a Social World

    de James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to science, notably the strong programme – Bloor’s ‘science of science’ and Barnes’s ‘finitism’ – and that of the ‘anthropologists in the lab’, Collins and Latour and Woolgar. The author argues that although ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    How Science Reflects Reality

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Laboratory of the Mind

    Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • On Foundations Of Seismology: Bringing Idealizations Down To Earth

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 3: More Than 31 Hours of Classic Science Fiction

    Legendary Authors. Timeless Stories. Endless Imagination.

    de James Blish, Edward W. Ludwig, Algis Budrys, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles L. Fontenay, Clifford D. Simak, Evan Hunter, Frank Belknap Long, Frederik Pohl, Fredric Brown, Fritz Leiber, George O. Smith, H. G. Wells, Harry Harrison, Henry Slesar, I. M. Bukstein, Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance, John Bernard Daley, Lester Del Rey, Murray Leinster, Paul Ernst, Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Ross Rocklynne, Sol Boren ...
    Narrado por Scott Miller ...
    Series Audiolibro box set - Lost Sci-Fi Anthologies

    Completo

    31 hora 5 minutos

    50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 3: More Than 31 Hours of Classic Science Fiction continues the journey through the Golden Age of science fiction with fifty unforgettable stories from many of the genre’s greatest visionaries. Spanning more than 31 hours, this remarkable collection is filled with daring adventures, unforgettable characters, and the bold ideas that helped shape modern science fiction ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Harvard Classics Volume 42

    English Poetry 3: Tennyson To Whitman

    de Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Golden Deer Classics, Richard Monckton Milnes, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, J. Wilson, Robert Browning, Emily Brontë, Robert Stephen Hawker, Coventry Patmore, William (Johnson) Cory, Sydney Dobell, William Allingham, George Mac Donald, Edward, Earl of Lytton, Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Alexander Smith, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edward Brown, James Thomson (B. V.), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Morris, John Boyle O'Reilly, Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Robert Williams Buchanan, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Sidney Lanier, Bret Harte, Walt Whitman ...
    Series Libro 42 - Harvard Classics
    Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 50 Classic Gothic Works Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

    Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

    de Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Golden Deer Classics, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Beckford, H.P. Lovecraft, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charles Robert Maturin, Washington Irving, James Hogg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Charlotte Brontë, James Malcom Rymer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Horace Walpole ...
    The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock and Key Version) - Charles Robert Maturin The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving The ... Leer más

    $0.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Eighth Reader

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Richness of Victorian Literature and Literary Classics

    de Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Charles Lamb, Victor Hugo, George Eliot, Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns0, Ralph Waldo Emerson1, Washington Irving2, John Bunyan3, Nathaniel Hawthorne4, James Whitcomb Riley5, John Burroughs6, Abraham Lincoln7, Robert Browning8, Oliver Goldsmith9, Alexander Pope0, Eliza Cook1, Alfred Tennyson2, Henry W. Longfellow3, W. M. Thackeray4, Percy B. Shelley5, Darcy Wycombe0 ...
    Eighth Reader is a magnificent compilation that navigates the rich landscape of Western literary tradition, featuring the evocative voices of the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection spans a vast array of literary styles including poetry, essays, and eloquent prose, encapsulating an era where romanticism transitions into realism. Notable works peppered throughout, from insightful essays to ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus