This provocative and critical work addresses the question of why scientific realists and positivists consider experimental physics to be a natural and empirical science. Taking insights from contemporary science studies, continental philosophy, and the history of physics, this book describes and analyses the metaphysical presuppositions that underwrite the technological use of experimental apparatus and instruments to explore, model, and understand nature. By revealing this metaphysical foundation, the author questions whether experimental physics is a natural and empirical science at all.

This book questions the way that modern science and technology are considered able to liberate society from the erratic forces of nature. Modern science is implicated in a gamble on a technological society that will replace the natural world with a 'better' one. The author questions the rationality of this gamble and its implications for our lives.

Taking insights from the philosophy of science and technology, theories of participatory democracy and Critical Theory, the author tackles and explores how democratic participation in scientific research and technological innovation could be possible, as a deliberative means of improving the rational basis for the development of modern society.

This booklet presents an argument in defense of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, which reads "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The author discusses the meaning of this amendment and explains its importance for democracy in America, while addressing concerns about public safety and the need for gun control.

Next Places is a book for anyone reaching a point of change in life--the young adult moving from school to the world, the professional who is no longer satisfied with his or her work, the person making the transition to another town or a new relationship, the baby boomer contemplating how life will be once out of the workplace, or an older person continuing to open up new paths toward wisdom. Rather than laying out a universal quick fix for dealing with change, Harvey Sarles's meditations entice readers to find their own senses of self-clarity. The idea is to handle change by growing oneself...

Citizens United v the Federal Elections Commission 2010 was a landmark case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States of America that allowed unlimited expenditures by corporations during election campaigns. Read why this court ruling needs to be overturned and how the American people can overturn it.

In this critique of science, technology, and civilization, Karl Rogers questions the preconceived notions of the philosophy of science, shows them to be inadequate, and challenges us to rethink science and the mechanistic conception of Nature it entails. Moving beyond the philosophy of science, and taking insights from history, anthropology, sociology, and psychology, as well as many important philosophical thinkers, Rogers explains the origins of science and the reductionistic metaphysics on which it depends. He explains why it has led to an impoverished view of Nature as something valued...