Metaphysics
The History of Philosophy: Metaphysics
Presuppositions of Modern Science
History of The Idea of Nature in Western Philosophy Outline:
Idea of Nature: History of Western Philosophy
Bibliography
Plato
The Parmenides
and
The Timaeus
Aristotle
(384 B.C.E.-322 B.C.E.)
Metaphysics
Translated with Commentaries and Glossary
by Hippocrates G. Apostle, 1966
Aristotle:
The desire to understand
by Jonathan Lear, 1988/1999
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
by Immanuel Kant, 1783
A revision of the Carus translation with an introduction
by Lewis White Beck, 1950
About Science: The method is analytical,
i.e., they begin with experience and regress
upon its a priori presuppositions or principles without which it would not be possible
to have that kind of experience.
Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
Translated
by Norman Kemp Smith, 1965
About Science: The method is synthetic,
i.e., it begins with principles and thence proceed
to the experiences which they organize, govern, and render intelligible.
The Phenomenology of Mind
by G.W.F. Hegel
Translated by J. B. Baillie, 1807/1967
Hegel's Science of Logic
Translated
by A. V. Miller, 1812/1969
The Concept of Nature
by Alfred North Whitehead, 1919
Science and the Modern World
by Alfred North Whitehead, 1925
Process and Reality
by Alfred North Whitehead, 1927-28
Space, Time, and Deity
by S. Alexander, 1920
Holism and Evolution
by Jan Christian Smuts, 1926
Experience and Nature
by John Dewey, 1929
Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger
Translated
by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, 1962
Being-in-the World:
A Commentary on Heidegger's
Being and Time, Division I
by Hubert Dreyfus, 1991
An Essay on Metaphysics
by R. G. Collingwood, 1940
Revised Edition with an Introduction and additional material
edited by Rex Martin, 1998
The Idea of Nature
by R. G. Collingwood, 1945
Science for the Citizen
by Lancelot Hogben, 1938
The Sea Around Us
by Rachel Carson, 1951
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson, 1962/2002
Readings in Philosophy of Science
Edited by H. Feigl and M. Brodbeck, 1953
(parts VI & VII)
The Counterrevolution of Science
by F. A. Hayek, 1955
The Poverty of Historicism
by Karl R. Popper, 1957
Personal Knowledge:
Toward a Post-Critical Philosophy
by Michael Polanyi, 1958
(A general work in Philosophy of Science but its themes bear on human concerns)
The Common Sense of Science
by J. Bronowski, 1951
Science and Human Values
by J. Bronowski, 1956
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller, 1969
Grunch* of Giants
R. Buckminster Fuller
*Gross Universal Cash Heist, 1983
Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller, 1981
Synergetics
Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
R. Buckminster Fuller, 1975
The Identity of Man
by J. Bronowski, 1965
Nature and Knowledge:
The Philosophy of Contemporary Science
by J. Bronowski, 1969
The Assent of Man
by J. Bronowski, 1973
A Sense of the Future
by J. Bronowski, 1977
Philosophy of Science:
Readings selected, Edited, and Introduced
by Arthur Danto and Sidney Morgenbesser
preface by Ernest Nagel, 1960
Biography of Physics
by George Gamow, 1961
Science in the Making
by Joel H. Hildebrand, 1962
The World of Elementary Particles
by Kenneth W. Ford, 1963
Foresight and Understanding:
An Enquiry into the Aims of Science
by Stephen Toulmin, 1963
Science and Education
by Thomas Huxley, 1964
The Crime of Galileo
by Giorgio De Santillana, 1965
The Phenomenon of Life:
Toward A Philosophical Biology
by Hans Jonas, 1966
The Population Bomb
by Paul R. Ehrlich, 1968
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1970
Explanation and Understanding
by Georg Henrik von Wright, 1971
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
by David Bohm, 1980
The Cosmic Code:
Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature
by Heinz R. Pagels, 1984
A Brief History of Time:
From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by Stephen W. Hawking, 1988
Chaos:
Making A New Science
by James Gleick, 1988
The Tao Of Physics
by Fritjof Capra, 1984
The Web Of Life
by Fritjof Capra, 1997
A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
Unweaving the Rainbow:
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
by Richard Dawkins, 1998
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene, 1999
The Dancing Wu Li Masters:
An Overview of the New Physics
by Gary Zukav, 2001
The Canon:
A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier, 2007
The Human Touch:
Our Part in the Creation of a Universe
by Michael Fran, 2007
The Black Hole War:
My Battle with Stephen Hawking
to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by Leonard Susskind, 2008
Virtual Words
Language on the Edge of Science and Technology
by Jonathon Keets, 2010
The Science Delusion
Asking the Big Questions
in a Culture of Easy Answers
By Curtis White, 2013
Big Science
Ernest Lawrence and the
Invention that Lanched the
Military-Industrial Complex
by Michael Hiltzik, 2015
The Legacy of Buckminster
by Jonathon Keets, 2016
Theory and Reality
An Introductio to the Philosophy of Science
by Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2003
Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection
by Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2011
Philosophy of Biology
by Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2016
Other Minds
The Octopus, the Sea, and the
Deep Orgins of Consciousness
by Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2016
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