As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Francois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of ......
The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy
On December 20, 2005, a US district court in Dover, Pennsylvania, ruled in Kitzmiller et al v Dover Area School Board that teaching Intelligent Design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This collection informs readers about the history of the debate.
Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present
Illuminates the historical evolution of the materialist critique - that is, explaining the world in terms of itself - from antiquity onwards through engaging the work of Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Stephen Jay Gould, among others. This book offers tools to understand and defend critical and scientific reasoning.
Materialism Versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present
Illuminates the historical evolution of the materialist critique - that is, explaining the world in terms of itself - from antiquity onwards through engaging the work of Plato, Aristotle, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Stephen Jay Gould, among others. This book offers empowering tools to understand and defend critical and scientific reasoning.
Examines the relationship between sciences and religious non-belief. This book offers a history of science and philosophical doubt, and describes those theories in contemporary science that challenge spiritual views by favouring a naturalistic conception of the world.
Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy of the laws of physics symmetry. Symmetry is the basic underlying principle that defines the laws of nature and hence controls the universe. This book explains the supremely elegant concept of symmetry and its profound ramifications to life on Earth and the universe at large.
Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of ......
Biologists study life in its various physical forms, while philosophers of biology seek answers to questions about the nature, purpose, and impact of this research. This edition contains material on design without selection, testing macroevolutionary claims, biotechnological issues, key ecological concerns, the Gaia hypothesis, and more.
