The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, Hardcover - Michael Strevens

Reducere. "The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise." --R...

Reducere. Michael Strevens's "provocative and fascinating" (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times) investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael StrevensNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 23Cover type: Paperback / ...

DescriptionMany philosophers believe they can gain knowledge about the world from the comfort of their armchairs, simply by reflecting on the natur...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Michael BrooksNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 32Cover type: HardbackRede...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Michael BrooksNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 22Cover type: Paperback / ...

To the medieval thinker, man was the center of creation, and all of nature existed purely for his benefit. The shift from the philosophy of the Mid...

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Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story...

Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importanc...

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The Sumerians were not the only ones to create remarkably accurate standards of measurement in the Ancient world. Some would travel to the ends of ...

Three great cosmological worldviews--of the Latin West, ancient Greece, and the Hebrew/Syriac world--arose from a union of ancient and medieval tho...

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How a bottom-up problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset has nurtured entrepreneurship at MIT. MIT is world-famo...

This immersive dive into the life and work of Salvador Dal unlocks the secret of this creative genius and reveals for the first time how his erotic...

"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due." --Elizabet...

The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earth's poles will switch places - with potentially catastro...

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The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Danny VendraminiThis accessible, intelligent and page turning read sheds new light on how Neanderthals evolved and the orig...

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-Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the wei...

Brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader provides a stunning history of human exploration and assesses where our desire to explore could take us next.

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Creating a visual and written timeline of the age of human domination, The Human Age reveals how this era was born, the ways in which it is impacti...

DescriptionSovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in N...

Reducere. A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of ...