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This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life.
Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century.
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This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the