{"id":27520,"date":"2025-01-21T19:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=27520"},"modified":"2025-01-22T20:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T01:32:06","slug":"do-you-have-any-favorite-books-on-the-philosophy-of-science-or-scifi-like-ted-chiang-thanks-sm-crying-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/01\/21\/do-you-have-any-favorite-books-on-the-philosophy-of-science-or-scifi-like-ted-chiang-thanks-sm-crying-emoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have any favorite books on the philosophy of science? Or scifi like Ted Chiang! Thanks sm [crying emoji]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW012124.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW012124.jpg\" alt=\"Do you have any favorite books on the philosophy of science? Or scifi like Ted Chiang! Thanks sm [crying emoji]\" class=\"wp-image-27519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW012124.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW012124-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW012124-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AW012124-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Do you have any favorite books on the philosophy of science? Or scifi like Ted Chiang! Thanks sm [crying emoji]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We do have Chiang&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Stories of Your Life and Others<\/em>, which includes his short story, &#8220;Story of Your Life,&#8221; on which the film\u00a0<em>Arrival<\/em>was based. Thanks for your interest! I&#8217;ll have my assistant order more of his work. Thomas Kuhn&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Structure of Scientific Revolutions<\/em>(O&#8217;Neill Library Q175 .K95 1974) is a classic in science epistemology. For a more recent work, try Nancy Cartwright&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Dappled World\u00a0<\/em>(O&#8217;Neill Library Q175 .C37 1999).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do have Chiang&#8217;s\u00a0Stories of Your Life and Others, which includes his short story, &#8220;Story of Your Life,&#8221; on which the film\u00a0Arrivalwas based. Thanks for your interest! I&#8217;ll have my assistant order more of his work. Thomas Kuhn&#8217;s\u00a0Structure of Scientific Revolutions(O&#8217;Neill Library Q175 .K95 1974) is a classic in science epistemology. For a more recent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/01\/21\/do-you-have-any-favorite-books-on-the-philosophy-of-science-or-scifi-like-ted-chiang-thanks-sm-crying-emoji\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you have any favorite books on the philosophy of science? Or scifi like Ted Chiang! Thanks sm [crying emoji]&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27525,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27520\/revisions\/27525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}