Science

Great Minds Don’t Think Alike

Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human Edited and with commentary by Marcelo Gleiser

Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20411-8 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20410-1 January 2022 264 pages Intervolution

Smart Bodies Smart Things Mark C. Taylor

Mark C. Taylor explores how technological change is weaving together smart things and smart bodies to create new forms of life. He reveals that we are already cyborgs, integral cogs in what will become a superorganism of bodies and things.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19821-9 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19820-2 2020 224 pages 10 illus.

NO LIMITS

Freedom

An Impossible Reality Raymond Tallis

Raymond Tallis brings his familiar erudition and insight to this most intriguing and important philosophical question—the nature of our freedom—one that impacts most directly on our lives and takes us to the heart of what we are.

$35.00 cloth 978-1-78821-378-3 2021 288 pages

AGENDA PUBLISHING

Thinking the Problematic

Genealogies and Explorations between Philosophy and the Sciences Edited by Oliver Leistert and Isabell Schrickel

This book explores central scenes and conceptual elaborations of what historically has been called “the problem” or “the problematic.” The chapters contextualize the (re-)arising of this notion within the history of power and knowledge since the late nineteenth century.

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4640-5 2020 260 pages

TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING

Bernoulli’s Fallacy

Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science Aubrey Clayton

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it.

$34.95 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19994-0 2021 368 pages Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation

Current Debates and International Perspectives Edited by Solveig Lena Hansen and Silke Schicktanz

This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. It covers core issues in the global ethical debate such as donating, procuring, allocating, and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives.

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4643-6 2020 320 pages

TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING

Narratives and Comparisons

Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science? Edited by Martin Carrier, Rebecca Mertens, and Carsten Reinhardt

As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing.

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5415-8 2021 250 pages 32 illus.

BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Mind Ecologies

Body, Brain, and World Matthew Crippen and Jay Schulkin

Matthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, and history of science, Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended nature of mind.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19025-1 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19024-4 2020 336 pages