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Nicholas Maxwell
Wisdom in the University
€ 56,58
This provocative and challenging book questions how people think about what universities should seek to do and how they should respond to the grave problems of our age.
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Nicholas Maxwell
The Comprehensibility of the Universe
€ 59,51
The Comprehensibility of the Universe puts forward a radically new conception of science. Nicholas Maxwell argues that the prevailing view of the relation between scientific theory and evidence is untenable; he calls for a new orthodoxy which sees science as making a hierarchy of assumptions about the comprehensibility of the universe.
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Nicholas Maxwell
The Philosophy of Inquiry and Global Problems
€ 147,39
Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry. This holds that, in order to do justice to the basic humanitarian aim of helping to promote human welfare, academic inquiry must, in the first instance, seek knowledge and technological know-how.
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Nicholas Maxwell
The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism
€ 108,99
This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction.
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Nicholas Maxwell
Science and Enlightenment
€ 60,99
This book argues that two great problems of learning confront humanity: learning about the nature of the universe and about ourselves and other living things as a part of it; and learning how to become civilized.
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Ronald Barnett€ 56,58
Nicholas Maxwell€ 59,51
Nicholas Maxwell€ 147,39
Nicholas Maxwell€ 108,99
Nicholas Maxwell€ 60,99