The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge, Paperback - William Poundstone

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Martin Harwit, author of the influential book Cosmic Discovery, asks key questions about the scope of observational astronomy. Humans have long sou...

Publisher: BenBella BooksAuthor(s): Bobby AzarianNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

How do you predict something that has never happened before?

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Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government - Adam Przeworski

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From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everyth...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): John (University of Wolverhampton, UK) RobertsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Presenting a critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, the author, one of the greatest philosophers of his generation, reorients ethical theory t...

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The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From Research to Public Policy - Professor Reiner Grundmann, Professor Nico Stehr

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This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the C...

A new edition of the important work of philosophy from the late Williams. With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear and commentary on the text by A.W. M...

Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls. In the ...

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Reducere. This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the mystery of its o...

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DescriptionPhilosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism--either a radical separation of mind and bod...

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This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the mystery of its o...

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