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A Contemporary Introduction
This text identifies the profound philosophical problems that science raises through an examination of enduring questions about its nature, methods an...
Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including e...
Originally published in 1981. Why have the social sciences in general failed to produce results with the ever-increasing explanatory power and predict...
Enjoying Life Without Illusions
We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the ...
Preface p. ix Chapter 1 Biology and Its Philosophy p. 2 1.1 The Rise of Logical Positivism p. 2 1.2 The Consequences for Philosophy p. 4 1.3 Problems ...
Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology
After the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, scientists working in molecular biology embraced reductionismโthe theory that all complex syste...
"Economics will never be able to move beyond these vague predictions because it treats human behavior - individual and social - as the product of expe...
A collection of essays by Alexander Rosenberg, the distinguished philosopher of science. The essays cover three broad areas related to Darwinian thoug...
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 Rosenberg โ ...
Do the sciences aim to uncover the structure of nature, or are they ultimately a practical means of controlling our environment? In Instrumental Biolo...
A Philosophical Analysis
Rosenberg applies current thinking in philosophy of science to neoclassical economics in order to assess its claims to scientific standing. Although p...
The authors demonstrate that Hume's views can stand up to contemporary criticism and are relevant to current debates on causality....
Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today
This book is an eye opening and mind expanding collection of important writings, chosen with erudition and situating music education in the long sweep...
This is an expanded and thoroughly revised edition of the widely adopted introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences. Ranging ...
The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its histor...
These twelve original essays are 'after' Marx in several senses. The first and most obvious is the purely chronological sense: They are written one hu...
Romare Bearden As Printmaker
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Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg's and Lee McIntyre's u...
Why Economic Theory Can't Get Any Better...Why We Need It Anyway
"A defense of economic theory, in spite of its failure as a predictive science, as a tool of social engineering"--...
"Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg's and Lee McIntyre's ...
A Selective List Compiled by Alexander Rosenberg
After being blacklisted for having communist sympathies as a student twenty years before, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Tom Wrought escapes America...
Suspense and Thrillers