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History and Philosophy of Science
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by:
Thomas S. Kuhn
4.03 avg rating β 29,127 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking
4.21 avg rating β 467,038 ratings
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Timaeus
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Plato
3.85 avg rating β 3,220 ratings
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,050 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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Albert Einstein
4.20 avg rating β 22,703 ratings
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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Roger Penrose
4.16 avg rating β 8,351 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
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Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating β 41,143 ratings
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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Daniel C. Dennett
4.07 avg rating β 16,863 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
by:
Stephen Hawking
4.19 avg rating β 44,656 ratings
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The Character of Physical Law
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Richard P. Feynman
4.30 avg rating β 7,712 ratings
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Edwin A. Abbott
3.81 avg rating β 75,633 ratings
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
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Rudolf Carnap
4.26 avg rating β 162 ratings
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Discourse on Method
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RenΓ© Descartes
3.72 avg rating β 24,480 ratings
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What Is This Thing Called Science?
by:
Alan F. Chalmers
3.80 avg rating β 2,203 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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Charles Darwin
4.01 avg rating β 120,190 ratings
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by:
Sam Harris
3.90 avg rating β 24,023 ratings
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Physics
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Aristotle
3.98 avg rating β 4,370 ratings
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by:
Michael Shermer
3.86 avg rating β 9,953 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Walter Isaacson
4.17 avg rating β 197,576 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating β 28,421 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by:
Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.34 avg rating β 111,150 ratings
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The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
by:
Isaac Newton
4.24 avg rating β 4,779 ratings
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An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
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Ian Hacking
3.79 avg rating β 164 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions FailβBut Some Don't
by:
Nate Silver
3.97 avg rating β 51,882 ratings
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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
by:
Willard Van Orman Quine
4.14 avg rating β 1,210 ratings
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh
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David Hume
3.82 avg rating β 909 ratings
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Language, Truth and Logic
by:
Alfred Jules Ayer
3.75 avg rating β 4,177 ratings
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Pantheisticon: A Modern English Translation
by:
John Toland
3.78 avg rating β 23 ratings
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The Best Bits of Physics
by:
Alasdair C. Shaw
4.25 avg rating β 16 ratings
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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
by:
Dalai Lama XIV
4.03 avg rating β 9,699 ratings
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.26 avg rating β 7,483 ratings
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Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science
by:
Michael Friedman
3.89 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
by:
Lisa Jardine
3.77 avg rating β 321 ratings
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Het verschijnsel wetenschap : een inleiding tot de wetenschapsfilosofie
by:
Herman Koningsveld
3.31 avg rating β 13 ratings
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
by:
Carolyn Merchant
3.82 avg rating β 632 ratings
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The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science
by:
Nancy Cartwright
3.94 avg rating β 53 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by:
Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating β 9,816 ratings
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Reflections on Gender and Science
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Evelyn Fox Keller
3.83 avg rating β 140 ratings
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Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines
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Evelyn Fox Keller
3.97 avg rating β 37 ratings
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A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, 4th Edition
by:
John Losee
3.61 avg rating β 119 ratings
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Science and the Quest for Meaning
by:
Alfred I. Tauber
4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
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The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor?
by:
Alfred I. Tauber
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science
by:
Steve Fuller
3.40 avg rating β 149 ratings
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The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence: With extracts from Newton's 'Principia' and 'Optiks'
by:
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
3.98 avg rating β 133 ratings
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Space from Zeno to Einstein: Classic Readings with a Contemporary Commentary
by:
Nick Huggett
4.09 avg rating β 65 ratings
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Einstein's Clocks, PoincarΓ©'s Maps: Empires of Time
by:
Peter Galison
3.88 avg rating β 622 ratings
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Philosophy Of Physics (Dimensions of Philosophy Series)
by:
Lawrence Sklar
3.63 avg rating β 38 ratings
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Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties
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Alexander Bird
3.67 avg rating β 15 ratings
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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
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Sean Carroll
4.06 avg rating β 6,757 ratings
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Time
by:
Jonathan Westphal
4.26 avg rating β 19 ratings
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The New Organon
by:
Francis Bacon
3.69 avg rating β 1,749 ratings
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Laws and Symmetry
by:
Bas C. Van Fraassen
3.83 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Natural Laws in Scientific Practice
by:
Marc Lange
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Laws of Nature
by:
John W. Carroll
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Word and Object
by:
Willard Van Orman Quine
4.01 avg rating β 1,735 ratings
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Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach
by:
Colin Howson
3.67 avg rating β 43 ratings
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Understanding Scientific Reasoning
by:
Ronald N. Giere
3.47 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.01 avg rating β 11,432 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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Thomas Hager
4.09 avg rating β 5,802 ratings
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Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation
by:
James Woodward
3.83 avg rating β 42 ratings
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Causation and Explanation
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Stathis Psillos
4.22 avg rating β 18 ratings
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How the Laws of Physics Lie
by:
Nancy Cartwright
3.94 avg rating β 68 ratings
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What is a Law of Nature?
by:
D.M. Armstrong
3.65 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Readings On Laws Of Nature
by:
John W. Carroll
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Reason, Truth and History
by:
Hilary Putnam
3.87 avg rating β 305 ratings
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On Aggression
by:
Konrad Lorenz
4.04 avg rating β 1,663 ratings
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Historical Ontology
by:
Ian Hacking
3.86 avg rating β 108 ratings
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Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
by:
Nelson Goodman
4.01 avg rating β 193 ratings
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The Law-Governed Universe
by:
John T. Roberts
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings