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Surfing Uncertainty
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, ...
Science without numbers
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
Science Without Numbers' caused a stir when it was originally published in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the philosophy of mathematics and science. It has been unavailable for 20 years and is now reissued in ...
Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the ...
Explanation in ethics and mathematics: debunking and dispensability
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
How far should our realism extend, and how should we understand the entities referred to by mathematical and ethical talk? This volume explores how argumentative strategies in the philosophy of mathematics might apply to ...
Surfing Uncertainty
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, ...
Surfing Uncertainty
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, ...
Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the ...
Slow reading in a hurried age
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013)
Why should you read a book? Many millions of people in the world can’t read, and of those who can, very few read books regularly. It’s easy to fi ll the day (when you’re not working, doing chores, or talking to friends, ...
The horizon: a history of our infinite longing
(University of California Press, 2011)
What is a horizon? A line where land meets sky? The end of the world or the beginning of perception? In this brilliant, engaging, and stimulating history, Didier Maleuvre journeys to the outer reaches of human experience ...
The wherewithal of life: ethics, migration, and the question of well-being
(University of California Press, 2013)
Through extensive conversations with three key informants - from Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Mexico - in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Cambridge, MA, Jackson compares and contrasts what is at stake for each person in migrating ...