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Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt

A Natural History of Natural Theology

An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God. Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which…

Jerry Goldsmith

Star Trek (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

Thomas Metzinger

The Elephant and the Blind

"The Elephant and the Blind is a book about why we need a new culture of consciousness, and how to get it. A culture of consciousness (or Bewusstseinskultur) is a culture that values and cultivates the me…

Life and Mind

This volume provides a broad overview of some cutting-edge philosophical topics of growing interest at the juncture between cognitive science and biology. The main goal is not to integrate the variety of …

Biomedical Visualisation

This book brings together current advances in high-technology visualisation and the age-old but science-adapted practice of drawing for improved observation in medical education and surgical planning and …

Giorgio Agamben,

First Philosophy Last Philosophy

What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called "first philosophy" or "metaphysics"? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a…

Giorgio Agamben,

First Philosophy Last Philosophy

What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called "first philosophy" or "metaphysics"? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a…

Worthington Hooker

Science for the School and Family

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Worthington Hooker

Science for the School and Family

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Auf dem Weg zu einer Philosophie des kosmischen Lebens

Wie die sechs Äste eines Schneekristalls in regelmäßigen Proportionen auf ihr gemeinsames Zentrum zulaufen, so deuten die sechs Beiträge dieses Buches eine zukünftige Philosophie des kosmischen Lebens an.…

Yafeng Shan

Alternative Approaches to Causation

This volume focuses on alternatives to the two main philosophical approaches to causation: mechanistic explanation, and explanation in terms of difference-making. It explores the pluralistic, the fictiona…

Noa Levin

Benjamin, Deleuze and the Baroque

For Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, who both authored seminal theoretical works on early cinema and photography, the history of modern media begins much earlier, in Baroque culture and science. Benjam…

Patrick H Byrne

Toward Environmental Wholeness

Offers a unified vision for approaching human ethical responses to what science is telling us about the crises facing our environment and climate.

Barry Loewer

Laws of Nature and Chances

Barry Loewer presents a novel account of the metaphysics of laws of nature, chances, fundamental ontology, and the space-time arena they occupy. He discusses the history of the concept of laws of nature, …

Mirko Farina, Andrea Lavazza, Duncan Pritchard

Expertise

This is a collective study of philosophical questions to do with experts and expertise, such as: What is an expert? Who decides who the experts are? Should we always defer to experts? How should expertise…

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer

Once an overlooked figure in 20th-century philosophy, Susanne K. Langer has become a prominent thinker among philosophers and artists, particularly because of her development of a new theory of art from s…

Katherine Brading, Marius Stan

Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason

Katherine Brading and Marius Stan provide a new framing of natural philosophy and its transformations in the Enlightenment and propose an account of how physics and philosophy evolved into distinct fields…

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve,

Carbon

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across 10 million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in…

Zeynep Pamuk

Politics and Expertise

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Our ability to act on some of the most pr…