James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy atthe University of Toronto, Canada. His previous publications include The Rational and the Social (Routledge, 1989), Smoke and Mirrors: How ScienceReflects Reality (Routledge, 1994), Philosophyof Mathematics (Routledge, Second Edition 2008) and The Laboratory of the Mind (Routledge, Second Edition 2009), Who Rules in Science: A Guide to the Wars(Harvard 2001), and Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge (Routledge 2011).
23 Ebooks by James Robert Brown
James Robert Brown & Michael A Slawinski: ON FOUNDATIONS OF SEISMOLOGY
‘I can wholeheartedly recommend this book students, researchers, college and university science professors, and readers of The Leading Edge. I also recommend it to all those who want to enrich their …
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€77.99
James Robert Brown: Smoke and Mirrors
Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible. Yet this wonderful picture of humanity’s best efforts at knowledge has been badly bruised by …
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€25.04
James Robert Brown: Laboratory of the Mind
Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though …
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€27.37
James Robert Brown: Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following …
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€26.19
James Robert Brown: Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following …
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€54.96
James Robert Brown: Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Mathematics is an excellent introductory text. This student friendly book discusses the great philosophers and the importance of mathematics to their thought. It includes the following …
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€54.76
James Robert Brown: Laboratory of the Mind
Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though …
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€41.61
James Robert Brown: Laboratory of the Mind
Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though …
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€41.67
James Robert Brown: Smoke and Mirrors
Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible. Yet this wonderful picture of humanity’s best efforts at knowledge has been badly bruised by …
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€41.56
James Robert Brown: Smoke and Mirrors
Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible. Yet this wonderful picture of humanity’s best efforts at knowledge has been badly bruised by …
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€41.69
James Robert Brown: Philosophy of Mathematics
In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely …
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€47.64
James Robert Brown: Philosophy of Mathematics
In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely …
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€47.58
James Robert Brown & Melanie Frappier: Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts
From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the …
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€58.10
James Robert Brown & Melanie Frappier: Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts
From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the …
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€57.06
James Robert Brown: Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge
This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, …
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€66.98
James Robert Brown: Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge
This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, …
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€66.98
James Robert Brown: The Laboratory of the Mind
Newton”s bucket, Einstein”s elevator, Schrödinger”s cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? …
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€45.03
James Robert Brown: The Laboratory of the Mind
Newton”s bucket, Einstein”s elevator, Schrödinger”s cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? …
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€45.03
James Robert Brown: Rational and the Social
To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to …
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€22.48
James Robert Brown: Rational and the Social
To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to …
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€22.45
James Robert Brown & Yiftach Fehige: Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from …
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€54.92
James Robert Brown & Yiftach Fehige: Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from …
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€54.88
Professor James Robert Brown: Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers
All the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the present day have been philosophers of science. However, this book concentrates on modern philosophy of science, starting in the nineteenth …
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€35.92
