Philosophy & Social Aspects 10

**One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at mathーfocusing on questions, not answers        Winner of the *Los Angeles Times *Book Prize A New Scientist Best Book o……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science is an indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science. It contains sixty-two spec……続きを見る

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothe……続きを見る

Engineering has always been a part of human life but has only recently become the subject matter of systematic philosophical inquiry. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering presents……続きを見る

The first book devoted to the bioethics of the space-mission environment, The Bioethics of Space Exploration explores the ethical status of possible biomedical challenges in future long-term space m……続きを見る

It is often thought that the numerous contradictory perspectives in Margaret Cavendish's writings demonstrate her inability to reconcile her feminism with her conservative, royalist politics. In thi……続きを見る

We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information?……続きを見る

Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. ……続きを見る

A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy With her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a r……続きを見る

“The best science and nature writingーwhich these stories representーreminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make our place in it,” writes Susan Orlean in……続きを見る

This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forestーa movi……続きを見る

Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power ……続きを見る

Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. Visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords – replacin……続きを見る

Forms of Life and Subjectivity: Rethinking Sartre’s Philosophy explores the fundamental question of why we act as we do. Informed by an ontological and phenomenological approach, and building mainly……続きを見る

A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts with the world **“This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world are partner……続きを見る

"[An] intriguing philosophical journey into a critical issue within evolutionary theory that for too long has remained unresolved." ーWall Street Journal Matt Ridley is one of our finest science wri……続きを見る

A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts? **The instant Sunday Times bestseller** Rejecting the futile modern obsessi……続きを見る

Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of pe……続きを見る

The Nature of Technology will change the way you think about this fundamental subject forever. W. Brian Arthur's many years of thinking and writing about technology have culminated in a unique under……続きを見る

Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world…The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written bo……続きを見る

** A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2025 ** **** A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025 ** 'Lively and provocative.' FINANCIAL TIMES** 'Makes a convincing case for how tech became radicalized.' BLOOMBE……続きを見る

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. 続きを見る

Physics and Mathematics: Collaboration, Contradiction, and the Quest for Truth: Physics and mathematics, twin pillars of human understanding, have built our greatest theories and deepest paradoxes. ……続きを見る

Data science has never had more influence on the world. Large companies are now seeing the benefit of employing data scientists to interpret the vast amounts of data that now exists. However, the fi……続きを見る

**New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "This is a book to shake up the world." ーAnn Patchett** Nicholas Carr’s bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one o……続きを見る

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, he……続きを見る

An examination of eugenic thinking past and present, from forced sterilization to prenatal screening, drawing on experience with those who survived eugenics. Part science and part social movement, e……続きを見る

'Fascinating, absorbing and educative' A. C. Grayling 'Highly original and beautifully written' Dominic Lawson A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific res……続きを見る

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesio……続きを見る