Is Water H2O?: Evidence, Realism and Pluralism (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 293)
By: Hasok Chang
4.41
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
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4.01
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2. Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock
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4.07
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By: William James
3.58
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5. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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6. The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.29
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3.73
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3.90
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9. Min kamp 5 (Min kamp #5)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33
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10. Philosophical Investigations
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3.68
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3.94
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12. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
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4.16
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13. On Certainty
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , Georg Henrik von Wright , G.E.M. Anscombe , None
4.50
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3.69
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15. Logic: A Very Short Introduction
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3.97
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16. Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality
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4.00
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4.08
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4.27
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4.14
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4.26
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4.35
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4.01
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26. Is Water H2O?: Evidence, Realism and Pluralism (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 293)
By: Hasok Chang
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4.55
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31. Scientific Perspectivism
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3.82
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