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From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III Science Goes Vernacular
This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in...
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Science, Faith, Society: New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi
The book is arguably the first comprehensive collection of essays on Michael Polanyi’s social, political philosophy. The essays combine philosophical...
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Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr.
This collection of original articles draws from a cross section of distinguished scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. It is focussed primarily on...
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Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024 Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights
Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Oper...
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Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge
The book sets an ambitious goal. It devises a new account of scientific methodology that makes it possible to explain how scientists manage, at least...
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Grounding in Medieval Philosophy
This book offers a selection of 13 case studies on how the notion of grounding helps illuminate philosophical discussions of our past with a special...
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An Epistemology of Belongingness Dreaming A First Nation’s Ontology of Hope
The intent of this book focuses on Australia’s First Nations truth, voice, recognition, diversity, and respect. Hope O’Chin explains that knowledge...
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The Palgrave Companion to George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith
The first of its kind, this project is a collection of critical and interpretive essays on George Santayana’s seminal work in American philosophy, Scep...
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Procedures of Resistance Contents, Positions and the 'Doings' of Literary Theory
This volume explores the state of literary theory today, decades after the repeatedly proclaimed end of theory. It builds on the idea that theory is...
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Intuitively Rational: How We Think and How We Should
This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists,...
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“‘Faith’ is a fine invention” Dickinson’s Performance of Doubt and Belief
This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties. Studies...
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Descartes on Mathematics, Method and Motion On the Role of Cartesian Physics in the Scientific Revolution
This book argues that Descartes’ physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics. After Newton introduced a completely different...
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The Philosophy of Inquiry and Global Problems The Intellectual Revolution Needed to Create a Better World
Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry. This holds that, in order to do justice to the...
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The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics
This book differentiates between and analyzes the Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist spirit in traditional Chinese aesthetics, explains the core...
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New Mechanism Explanation, Emergence and Reduction
This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book...
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Are Statistics Only Made of Data? Know-how and Presupposition from the 17th and 19th Centuries
This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and...
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Human Nature, Mind and the Self in Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy What Does it Mean to Be Human?
This book investigates the problematisation in Adam Smith's moral philosophy of a classical question: what makes us human beings from a moral...
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Standpoint Phenomenology Methodologies of Breakdown, Sign, and Wonder
This book introduces a standpoint approach to phenomenology and reconceives the phenomenological project as not an individual but a communal...
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Resolving Disagreements A Semantic and Epistemological Inquiry
This book examines how the semantics and metaphysics of disagreement affect the epistemology of disagreement. It thus broadens the philosophical...
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Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control
This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes...
