Bøker fra Cambridge University Press
Kun lagervarer
The Dappled World
It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one...
Les mer
The Dappled World
It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one...
Les mer
Knowledge, Science and Relativism
This third volume of Paul Feyerabend’s philosophical papers, which gathers together work originally published between 1960 and 1980, offers a range...
Les mer
Biology and the Foundations of Ethics
There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This...
Les mer
Genes, Genesis, and God
Holmes Rolston challenges the sociobiological orthodoxy that would naturalize science, ethics, and religion. The book argues that genetic processes...
Les mer
Genes, Genesis, and God
Holmes Rolston challenges the sociobiological orthodoxy that would naturalize science, ethics, and religion. The book argues that genetic processes...
Les mer
Genetics and Reductionism
With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity,...
Les mer
The Design Inference
The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating their key trademark: specified events of small probability. Just about anything that...
Les mer
Explaining Chaos
Chaotic dynamics has been hailed as the third great scientific revolution in physics this century, comparable to relativity and quantum mechanics. In...
Les mer
Beyond Science
John Polkinghorne has had a distinguished career as a particle physicist and as an author of books exploring themes in science and religion. In...
Les mer
The City of God against the Pagans
This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the...
Les mer
Darwinism’s Struggle for Survival
In Darwinism’s Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by...
Les mer
On the Citizen
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all...
Les mer
The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
This important book brings recent findings and theories in biology and psychology to bear on the fundamental question in ethics of what it means to...
Les mer
On the Citizen
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all...
Les mer
The English Levellers
The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be...
Les mer
The English Levellers
The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be...
Les mer
The Urban Image of Augustan Rome
The Urban Image of Augustan Rome examines the idea and experience of the ancient city at a critical moment, when Rome became an Imperial capital....
Les mer
Dialectology
When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial...
Les mer
Approaches to the Evolution of Language
This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory, without abandoning...
Les mer
Language and History in the Early Germanic World
This book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe with classical antiquity...
Les mer
Measuring Minds
This book explores the origins of the American intelligence testing movement. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America’s...
Les mer
Islam and Postcolonial Narrative
In Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, John Erickson examines four major authors from the third-world - Assia Djebar, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar ben...
Les mer
Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition
Arthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular tradition. This book, uniquely, looks at Latin...
Les mer
