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Reference Module Humanities eBook Series

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  • Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

    by Delphine Bellis, Zvi Biener, Justin E. H. Smith, Angus Gowland, Ruth Hagengruber, Hiro Hirai, Martin Lenz, Gideon Manning, Silvia Manzo, Cesare Pastorino, Marius Stan, Kirsten Walsh ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity. Combining careful contextual reconstruction with arguments from traditional philosophy, the book examines methodological dimensions, breaks down traditional oppositions such as rationalism vs. empiricism, calls attention to gender issues, to ... Read more

    $1,313.99 AUD

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  • Science and Religion

    Some Historical Perspectives

    by John Hedley Brooke ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar ... Read more

    $33.98 AUD

  • A Discourse on the Method

    of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences

    Translated by Ian Maclean ...
    by René Descartes ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes'sA Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography ... Read more

    $9.24 AUD

  • The Restless Clock

    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

    by Jessica Riskin ...
    A "wide-ranging, witty, and astonishingly learned" scientific and cultural history of the concept of the capacity to act in nature ( London Review of Books).Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the ... Read more

    $35.19 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scientific Revolution

    by Steven Shapin ...
    This scholarly and accessible study presents "a provocative new reading" of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry ( Kirkus Reviews).In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a "revolution" ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the ... Read more

    $21.66 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of the Framework

    In Defence of Science and Rationality

    by Karl Popper ...
    In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject.Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the ... Read more

    $89.50 AUD

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  • Inventing Chemistry

    Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

    by John C. Powers ...
    Series series Synthesis
    The story of this little-known Dutch physician "will interest students and practitioners of history, chemistry, and philosophy of science" ( Choice).In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth ... Read more

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  • The Discourse of Modernism

    by Timothy J. Reiss ...
    Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a ... Read more

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  • Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

    Edited by Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, Dror Weil ...
    This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space.The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern world, using this idea as a jumping-off point ... Read more

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  • The Handy Philosophy Answer Book

    by Naomi Zack, Ph.D. ...
    Series series The Handy Answer Book Series
    Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Sartre, and many more. Who were they? What did they say? Why should we care? How did changing philosophical thought affect the history of civilization? How does philosophy affect pop culture, politics and government, and our everyday lives?Combining a basic history of philosophical thought with the often quirky personal stories of famous philosophers, The Handy ... Read more

    Was $27.99 AUD Now $24.99 AUD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Desmond M. Clarke, Catherine Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion. The period between the publication ... Read more

    $69.51 AUD

  • Divine Machines

    Leibniz and the Sciences of Life

    by Justin Smith-Ruiu ...
    Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. In Divine Machines, Justin Smith offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas ... Read more

    $109.99 AUD