Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution

From Copernicus to Newton

Edited by Wilbur Applebaum

With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses...

Published March 14th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Invisible Hand in Economics

How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences

By N. Emrah Aydinonat

This is a book about one of the most controversial concepts in economics: the invisible hand. The author explores the unintended social consequences implied by...

Published February 14th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science

Edited by Stathis Psillos, Martin Curd

This indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science contains fifty-five specially commissioned entries by a...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

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Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction

By Alex Rosenberg, Daniel W. McShea

Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex...

Published December 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Biomedical Research and Beyond

Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry

By Christopher O. Tollefsen

What is the relationship between scientific research and ethics? Some think that science should be free from ethical and political considerations. Biomedical Research and Beyond...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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Critical Political Economy

Complexity, Rationality, and the Logic of Post-Orthodox Pluralism

By Christian Arnsperger

This book asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and taught. It suggests that if economists today are serious about emancipation and empowerment,...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity

Edited by William Lane Craig, Quentin Smith

Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess...

Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Environmental Values

By John O'Neill, Alan Holland, Andrew Light

We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming. In everyday life...

Published July 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Years of High Econometrics

A Short History of the Generation that Reinvented Economics

By Francisco Louçã

A fascinating and comprehensive history, this book explores the most important transformation in twentieth century economics: the creation of econometrics.

Containing fresh archival material that has...

Published July 12th 2007 by Routledge.

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Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy

By David Sepkoski

What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the...

Published June 15th 2007 by Routledge.

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