Science & Technology

  • Western Technoscience
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    Western Technoscience

    Western Technoscience: Not the Usual Story offers an engaging and witty introduction to science and technology studies, seamlessly integrating history, philosophy, and sociology. Nathan Kowalsky…

  • Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century – Second Edition
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    Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century – Second Edition

    Good science deserves good sentences, not just correct ones. Concise and current, Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century provides practical strategies for a wide range…

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Value Alignment Problem

    Artificial Intelligence and the Value Alignment Problem

    Written for an interdisciplinary audience, this book provides strikingly clear explanations of the many difficult technical and moral concepts central to discussions of ethics and…

  • An Inquirer’s Guide to Ethics in AI

    An Inquirer’s Guide to Ethics in AI

    Pulling from ethics, computer science, philosophy of science, and history, this book offers a series of investigative tools to enable readers to establish interdisciplinary connections…

  • A Field Guide to Climate Change

    A Field Guide to Climate Change

    This book is a guide for understanding climate change. It takes an interdisciplinary approach because climate change is simultaneously a matter of science, engineering, economics,…

  • Bringing Biology to Life

    Bringing Biology to Life

    Bringing Biology to Life is a guided tour of the philosophy of biology, canvassing three broad areas: the early history of biology, from Aristotle to Darwin;…

  • Technology and Society: A Philosophical Guide

    Technology and Society: A Philosophical Guide

    Technology and Society provides an up-to-date introduction to the basic issues that have come to define the philosophy of technology: What is “technology”? Does technology…

  • Is That a Fact? - Second Edition

    Is That a Fact? – Second Edition

    How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain…

  • Science and Society

    Science and Society

    Developed for use in college and university courses, Science and Society provides a broad selection of science writing intended to help students think critically about…

  • Science and the World

    Science and the World

    This new anthology includes both classic and contemporary readings on the methods and scope of science. Jeffrey Foss depicts science in a broadly humanistic context,…

  • On the Origin of Species

    On the Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, in which he writes of his theories of evolution by natural selection, is one of the most important…

  • Nineteenth-Century Science

    Nineteenth-Century Science

    Nineteenth-Century Science is a science anthology which provides over 30 selections from original 19th-century scientific monographs, textbooks and articles written by such authors as Charles…