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A Realist Theory of Science
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 45.95Dealing with philosophy of science, this book sets out to revindicate ontology, critiquing the reduction of being in favor of knowledge, which the author calls the "epistemic fallacy". more...
Living within Limits
Algora Publishing 2008; US$ 32.95The author, a research scientist, explores without jargon or mathematics the scientific search for truth, the nature of life and the future of man. Explaining and appreciating the scientific method and major scientific challenges such as measuring the known universe, the theoretical and experimental underpinnings for theories of evolution, and the... more...
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 39.95Following on from Roy Bhaskar?s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as explanatory?and thence emancipatory?critique. Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation starts from an assessment of the impasse of contemporary... more...
Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95This book presents a clear formulation and addresse a the major arguments for scientific realism. Sankey appeals to philosophers beyond the community of, typically Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of science to appreciate and understand the doctrine. The book emphasizes the epistemological aspects of scientific realism and contains an original... more...
Reference and Description
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 29.95In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this... more...
New Essays on the Explanation of Action
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 135.00These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons. more...
The Epistemology of Belief
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00A re-examination of certain epistemic features of belief, which challenges current ideas and provides a unified and coherent picture of the epistemology of belief. more...
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 25.00Provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. more...
Ethics, Knowledge and Truth in Sports Research
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 166.00The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation. In this groundbreaking study, Graham McFee argues that sound high-level research into sport requires... more...
Psycho-Physical Dualism Today
Lexington Books 2008; US$ 74.99Philosophers and scientists have recently been showing renewed interest in dualistic conceptions of the human mind, owing to growing acknowledgment of the failings of materialism and reductionism in contemporary philosophical and scientific thought. This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of current developments in this exciting new area of... more...









