History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2006-07-05 | Author:Carl Sagan [Carl Sagan]

About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look at. Many things prevent my ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-18 | Author:John Archibald Wheeler [Wheeler, John Archibald]

With Janette and our three children (from left to right): Alison Lahnston, Jamie Wheeler, and Letitia UfFord, 1985. Soon after my return to Princeton, 1987. (Photograph by Robert Matthews, courtesy ...
( Category: Scientists October 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Alder

All that remained was to boil down those concatenated results into a single number: the meter. For the next few weeks, each commissioner calculated independently, using his own preferred method. ...
( Category: Geography October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Cobb [Cobb, Matthew]

That question remains unanswered. In 2014, the ENCODE consortium published a second wave of papers and seemed to back away from their earlier headline claim of 80 per cent function, ...
( Category: Genetics October 13,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Theodore Dalrymple [Dalrymple, Theodore]

CHAPTER SEVEN There is, I trust, no need to point out again the convenience of the neurochemical hypothesis of unhappiness and undesirable conduct to those who seek to “lay their ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought October 13,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

CHAPTER IX. THE WORLD OF UNIVERSALS At the end of the preceding chapter we saw that such entities as relations appear to have a being which is in some way ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

So it was the Canaanites’ fault: they had it coming to them because God wanted their land for his pet tribe’s Lebensraum and the incumbents just refused to get up ...
( Category: Biology October 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

VII When the historical sense reigns unchecked and drags with it all its consequences, it uproots the future, because it destroys illusions and takes from existing things the atmosphere in ...
( Category: Existentialism October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ziauddin Sardar

Rediscovering Indian Science A similar discourse on Indian science emerged during the 1980s and 90s. It is most strongly associated with the numerous academic and radical groups involved in the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Dennis E. Shasha

This was first pointed out by Rob Pratt of the University of North Carolina and independently by Michael Bookbinder, Brett Stevens, Ivan Rezanka, Wim Caspers, and Joe Binsack. OPEN PROBLEM. ...
( Category: Puzzles October 9,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

There is a very good reason why the erotic side of Man has called forth so much more discussion lately than has his appetite for food. The reason is this: ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar September 24,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:Einstein, Albert [Einstein, Albert]

THE DISPERSAL OF EUROPEAN JEWRY From an address by radio for the United Jewish Appeal, broadcast March 22, 1939. Published in Out of My Later Years, New York: Philosophical Library, ...
( Category: Anthologies September 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

Today the story leaves us in shock. But in the moral universe of the settlers, allowing the girl to die and actively ending her life were live options. Though we ...
( Category: Violence in Society September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Das, Kunal K.

Figure 11.1 Newton’s second law of motion states that acceleration is proportional to the applied force if the mass or weight of the object is unchanged. (a) A light spring ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 23,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Wootton

Diodati had written to Galileo in 1620 asking if he had plans for publication, and offering to help him get round any ‘local obstacles’ – news of the condemnation of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 22,2015 )