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  • Beyond New Atheism and Theism
    Sal Restivo
    Focusing on the debates between the New Atheists and theists, this book addresses the failings in understanding on both sides, arguing for a sociological perspective on religion, God and science as a practice, together with a critical realist approach to the nature of the real world as we experience it. ...
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    77,53 €

  • Beyond New Atheism and Theism
    Sal Restivo
    Focusing on the debates between the New Atheists and theists, this book addresses the failings in understanding on both sides, arguing for a sociological perspective on religion, God and science as a practice, together with a critical realist approach to the nature of the real world as we experience it. ...
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    268,26 €

  • Inventions in Sociology
    Sal Restivo
    This book presents a collection of old and new essays exploring the author’s unique contributions to the sociology of science, mathematics, logic, robotics, brain, and god. Known for his defense of a strong social constructionist approach to the hard problems in the sociology of science, the power and range of Restivo’s interests and studies are discussed in this unique text. T...
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    145,56 €

  • Social Brain
    Sal Restivo
    This book introduces the idea of the social brain networked in the world. The author’s foundational thesis is that humans appear in evolution always, already, and everywhere social. We have social selves, social brains, and social genes. ...
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    121,87 €

  • Inventions in Sociology
    Sal Restivo
    This book presents a collection of old and new essays exploring the author’s unique contributions to the sociology of science, mathematics, logic, robotics, brain, and god. Known for his defense of a strong social constructionist approach to the hard problems in the sociology of science, the power and range of Restivo’s interests and studies are discussed in this unique text. T...
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    143,87 €

  • Society and the Death of God
    Sal Restivo
    From a sociological and anthropological perspective, this book provides a scientific argument for the position that God and the gods are human creations, contending that the severity of the threats currently faced by the world requires us to correct our errors and re-establish belonging and compassion on a non-transcendental foundation. ...
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    268,23 €

  • Society and the Death of God
    Sal Restivo
    From a sociological and anthropological perspective, this book provides a scientific argument for the position that God and the gods are human creations, contending that the severity of the threats currently faced by the world requires us to correct our errors and re-establish belonging and compassion on a non-transcendental foundation. ...
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    74,80 €

  • Einstein’s Brain
    Sal Restivo
    This book reviews the research on Einstein’s brain from a sociological perspective and in the context of the social brain paradigm.  Instead of 'Einstein, the genius of geniuses' standing on the shoulders of giants, Restivo proposes a concept of Einstein the social being standing on the shoulders of social networks. Rather than challenging Einstein’s uniqueness or the uniquenes...
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    72,97 €

  • Einstein’s Brain
    Sal Restivo
    This book reviews the research on Einstein’s brain from a sociological perspective and in the context of the social brain paradigm.  Instead of 'Einstein, the genius of geniuses' standing on the shoulders of giants, Restivo proposes a concept of Einstein the social being standing on the shoulders of social networks. Rather than challenging Einstein’s uniqueness or the uniquenes...
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    71,28 €

  • The Age of the Social
    Sal Restivo
    This book seeks to re-establish the credentials of sociology as the science of society. While championing interdisciplinarity in recognising the capacity of converging perspectives to yield more interesting general theories of social life, the author defends disciplinarity in maintaining sociology’s achievements as a discipline. ...
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    80,03 €

  • The Age of the Social
    Sal Restivo
    This book seeks to re-establish the credentials of sociology as the science of society. While championing interdisciplinarity in recognising the capacity of converging perspectives to yield more interesting general theories of social life, the author defends disciplinarity in maintaining sociology’s achievements as a discipline.With chapters on the sociological world view, imag...
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    268,05 €

  • Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy
    Sal Restivo
    This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetuate the false reality that values and politics are separate from scientific knowledge and its applications. These ideas are reinforced by cultural myths about free will and individu...
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    144,07 €

  • Worlds of ScienceCraft
    Alexander Stingl / Sabrina M. Weiss / Sal Restivo
    A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about minds, identities, and bodies are challenged through case studies from mathemati...
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    97,57 €

  • Red, Black, and Objective
    Sal Restivo
    Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin’s concept of anarchism as one of the social sciences, Red, Black, and Objective expounds and develops an anarchist account of science as a social construction and social institution. Restivo’s account is at once normative, analytical, organizational, and policy oriented, in par...
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    97,66 €

  • Worlds of ScienceCraft
    Alexander Stingl / Sabrina M. Weiss / Sal Restivo
    A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about minds, identities, and bodies are challenged through case studies from mathematic...
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    301,83 €

  • Red, Black, and Objective
    Sal Restivo
    Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin’s concept of anarchism as one of the social sciences, Red, Black, and Objective expounds and develops an anarchist account of science as a social construction and social institution. Restivo’s account is at once normative, analytical, organizational, and policy oriented, in par...
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    301,91 €