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9780300196719 | Yale Univ Pr, April 28, 2015, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780395808825, titled "Public Speaking" | Houghton Mifflin College Div, October 1, 1996, cover price $83.95 | also contains Public Speaking

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Product Description: Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein’s revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science," a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher of science Steven Gimbel explores the many meanings of this provocative phrase and considers whether there is any sense in which Einstein’s theory of relativity is Jewish...read more

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9781421405544 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 10, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Is relativity Jewish?

Paperback:

9781421411828 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 4, 2013), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Is relativity Jewish?

Hans Reichenbach, a philosopher of science who was one of five students in Einstein's first seminar on the general theory of relativity, became Einstein's bulldog, defending the theory against criticism from philosophers, physicists, and popular commentators. This book chronicles the development of Reichenbach's reconstruction of Einstein's theory in a way that clearly sets out all of its philosophical commitments and its physical predictions as well as the battles that Reichenbach fought on its behalf, in both the academic and popular press. The essays include reviews and responses to philosophical colleagues; polemical discussions with physicists Max Born and D. C. Miller; as well as popular articles meant for the layperson. At a time when physics and philosophy were both undergoing revolutionary changes in content and method, this book is a window into the development of scientific philosophy and the role of the philosopher.
By Steven Gimbel (editor), Hans Reichenbach and Anke Walz (trans)

Hardcover:

9780521859585 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2006, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Hans Reichenbach, a philosopher of science who was one of five students in Einstein's first seminar on the general theory of relativity, became Einstein's bulldog, defending the theory against criticism from philosophers, physicists, and popular commentators.

Paperback:

9780521371162, titled "Defending Einstein: Hans Reichenbach's Writings on Space, Time and Motion" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 21, 2011), cover price $44.99

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From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the “scientific method”—a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into the office of a theoretical physicist or the laboratory of a biochemist and ask “Which step are you on?” and you will likely receive a blank stare. This is not how science works. But science does work, and here award-winning teacher and scholar Steven Gimbel provides students the tools to answer for themselves this question: What actually is the scientific method?           Exploring the Scientific Method pairs classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of science with milestones in scientific discovery to illustrate the foundational issues underlying scientific methodology. Students are asked to select one of nine possible fields—astronomy, physics, chemistry, genetics, evolutionary biology, psychology, sociology, economics, or geology—and through carefully crafted case studies trace its historical progression, all while evaluating whether scientific practice in each case reflects the methodological claims of the philosophers. This approach allows students to see the philosophy of science in action and to determine for themselves what scientists do and how they ought to do it.            Exploring the Scientific Method will be a welcome resource to introductory science courses and all courses in the history and philosophy of science.        
By Steven Gimbel (editor)

Hardcover:

9780226294810 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2011, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the “scientific method”—a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart.
9780198267614, titled "Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love" | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $59.00 | also contains Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love | About this edition: This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros, the love found in Greek thought, and agape, the love characteristic of Christianity.

Paperback:

9780226294834 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2011, cover price $31.00

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Product Description: Book by Gimbel, Steven

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9781599350608, titled "Profiles in Mathematics: Rene Descartes: Rene Descartes" | Morgan Reynolds Pub, August 1, 2008, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Book by Gimbel, Steven

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Twenty philosophical essays about the Grateful Dead phenomenon evaluates the band, its lyrics, and its influence from a variety of ancient and modern perspectives to consider how it fits into broader trends of American thought. Original.
By Steven Gimbel (editor)

Paperback:

9780812696233 | Open Court Pub Co, May 25, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Twenty philosophical essays about the Grateful Dead phenomenon evaluates the band, its lyrics, and its influence from a variety of ancient and modern perspectives to consider how it fits into broader trends of American thought.

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