Showing posts with label Science: Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science: Philosophy. Show all posts

Writing in the Margins

Roy Wallis (
Ed.). On the Margins of Science: The Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge. Sociological Review Monograph no. 27. University of Keele, 1979.

Knowing About Knowing

H.M. Collins. ( Ed .) Sociology of Scientific Knowledge; a Sourcebook. Bath University Press, 1982. 
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Philosophy and Parapsychology

Lawrence LeShan. From Newton to ESP; Parapsychology and the Challenge of Modern Science. Turnstone Press, 1985.
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Quantum Thinking

P C W Davies and J R Brown (editors ) The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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Taking Down Dawkins

Fern Elsdon-Baker. The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy. Icon Books, 2009.🔻

Relativity of Theories


F. David Peat. Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into the Native American Universe. Fourth Estate, 1996.

Starry, Starry Night

Lawrence LeShan and Henry Margenau. Einstein's Space and Van Gogh's Sky: Physical Reality and Beyond. Harvester Press, 1982.


Talking to the Aliens

Andrz Kukla. Extraterrestrials: A Philosophical Perspective. Lexington Books, 2010.

A Matter of Principle

John O. Barrow and Frank Tipler. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Clarendon Press, 1986.

Truth and Consequences

Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom. Why Truth Matters. Continuum, 2007.


Atoms and Alchemy

Peter Dear. The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World. U
niversity of Chicago Press, 2006.

Mark S. Morrison. Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Past Imperfect

Rupert Sheldrake. The Presence of the Past. HarperCollins, 1988.

13 Things

Michael Brooks. 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Times. Profile Books.
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Myths About Science

Noretta Koertge (ed.) A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodern Myths About Science. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Deviant Science

James McClenon. Deviant Science; The Case of Parapsychology.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

Looking at the Moon

Scott Montgomery, The Moon and the Western Imagination, University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Thinking About Science

David Lorimer (ed.), Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality, Imprint Academic, 2004.

Tony Rothman, Everything's Relative and Other Fables from Science and Technology, John Wiley and Sons.