Rationality and Science

Reducere. In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of ...

A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science's claims of objectivity, rationality, and truthPublisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): ...

Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversi...

A bold exploration of the reintegration of rationality and intuition, science and soul, to foster individual and planetary healingPublisher: Inner ...

Reducere. DescriptionDoes cognitive science show that religious belief is irrational?Kelly James Clark brings together science and philosophy to examine some...

Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified ...

DescriptionInspired by the bizarre and uncanny, this book attempts to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational, confronting ...

Faith and Rationality investigates the rich implications of what the authors call "Calvinistic" or "Reformed epistemology." This is the view of kno...

The first text to integrate a range of psychological approaches under the paradigm of Behavioral Political Science, giving students insights into u...

A globally renowned economist and expert on rationality presents a spirited and entertaining defence of our emotions, how we got them, and why it's...

Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities (reciprocity, cooperation, empathy) and cogni...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Reducere. Since ancient times man has sought to understand the origins of the universe around him, and his place within it. Such speculations were once the s...

DescriptionThis is the second edition of the popular, low-cost, college-level textbook in logic and critical thinking. Covering topics like worldvi...

Reducere. Killing Time is the story of Paul Feyerabend's life. Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, it is the self-portrait of one of this century's...

Contributor(s): Author: Steven TadelisThis comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the principal ideas and applications of game theory, in a s...

Reducere. Without God, how can we have hope or make sense of such a broken world?Skeptics believe we don't need God to understand reality, and that science a...

Reducere. "I consider The Soul of Science to be a most significant book which, in our scientific age, should be required reading for all thinking Christians ...

DescriptionTWO MASTERS OF HUMOROUS SCIENCE FICTION TOGETHER GREMLINS TAKE TO SPACE These little dudes may be the stuff of legend, but they're just ...

Reducere. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialized from the late eighteenth ...

Reducere. In 1920, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love with science. Painfully rebuffed by a girl she long...

Are We an Accident...or Not?The question of cosmic origins and our place in the grand scheme of things has been debated for millennia. Why do we ex...

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Derek Parfit claims t...

Reducere. In the Enneads, 3rd century mystic philosopher Plotinus synthesized a thousand years of accumulated Greek wisdom with his own profound mystical exp...

DescriptionThis book studies the interplay between the geometry and topology of locally symmetric spaces, and the arithmetic aspects of the special...

An agent often does not have precise probabilities or utilities to guide resolution of a decision problem. I advance a principle of rationality for...

Dawkin's militant atheism is well known; his profound faith less well knownIn this book, atheist philosopher Eric Steinhart explores the spiritual ...

Reducere. For millennia all attempts to end violent war by negotiated or imposed peace have brought only brief respite. On the premise that war is endemic to...

Reducere. For millennia all attempts to end violent war by negotiated or imposed peace have brought only brief respite. On the premise that war is endemic to...

A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the q...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists address issues of moral responsibility and free will, drawing on new findings from empiric...

What do the occult sciences, s ances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteen...

Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, includi...

Reducere. This book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, t...

Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval reli...

Reducere. C. S. Lewis is best known for his Narnia tales and Christian apologetics, works that have sold more than 100 million copies. But Lewis was also a t...

Reducere. Astrologers play an important role in Indian society, but there are very few studies on their social identity and professional practices. Based on ...

Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical t...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel gave many lectures in logic at Berlin University between 1818 and his untimely death in 1831. Edited posthumously by ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hunter BakerThis ambitious work offers one of the most comprehensive attacks on secularism yet attempted. Hunter Baker argu...

Reducere. If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a "machine" would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus that discusses the consequence...

Reducere. For readers who would like to learn economics for the fun of it, economics understood not as the study of the economy but as a tool for understandi...

Reducere. How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news stories change election outcome...

Reducere. "Horesh's perceptive and thoughtful views on fascism are in the great tradition of past works by Orwell, Albert Camus, Hannah Arendt and Henry Thor...

Reducere. Secular, skeptical, disillusioned. These are the traits that mark our age--encouraged by outspoken atheists who insist that faith is na ve and beli...