Philosophy of science

The Number: What Happens When You Measure SomethingA clear, rigorous exploration of the ideas behind the title.

Better Than Nothing: How Real Measurements End Up Belonging to Something ElseA clear, rigorous exploration of the ideas behind the title.

The Four Clocks: What We Mean When We Say TimeA clear, rigorous exploration of the ideas behind the title.

This book advances scholarly discourse at the interface of Islam, biomedicine, and the human being.

This book advances scholarly discourse at the interface of Islam, biomedicine, and the human being.

Iris Murdoch was a thinker of extraordinary breadth and ambition.

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Iris Murdoch was a thinker of extraordinary breadth and ambition.

There has been a surge of recent interest in a family of phenomena that may broadly be described as emergent.

Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), a medical doctor who was an extremely important, but for a long time relatively neglected, follower of Descartes in the seventeenth century.

In Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach, Michael Tooley offers detailed criticism of various approaches to understanding causation and makes an argument for the superiority of a theoretical-term, non-reductionist analysis of causation.

Four-dimensional vistas is a philosophical and scientific exploration that examines the relationship between space perception mathematics and human consciousness.

In Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach, Michael Tooley offers detailed criticism of various approaches to understanding causation and makes an argument for the superiority of a theoretical-term, non-reductionist analysis of causation.

Kin and kinship matter to us.

Newton's Metaphysics of Substance offers a systematic interpretation of Isaac Newton's views on the ontology of substance and related issues of modality, causation, and dependence.

This volume brings together 124 of Leibniz's writings on some of his most distinctive and ambitious projects including developing a new logic or art of discovery as a tool for uncovering new truths; creating a universal language with a rational, philosophical grammar structured to reflect human reasoning; designing a symbolic script (the characteristic) to facilitate discoveries across all fields of knowledge; planning an encyclopaedia in which existing knowledge would be systematically arranged to yield new insights; and advancing his vision of a collaborative, higher-order science (the general science) that would encompass the foundational principles of all other sciences.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is likely the greatest philosophical thinker America has ever produced.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is likely the greatest philosophical thinker America has ever produced.

William James was a giant of turn-of-the-century intellectual life.

From self-help to medication, therapy, and cognitive neuroscience, this book traces the uses and limits of psychology.

From self-help to medication, therapy, and cognitive neuroscience, this book traces the uses and limits of psychology.

Challenges Kripkean orthodoxy; develops Wittgensteinian alternatives in logic, language, and metaphysics; and reassesses fundamental philosophical conceptions.

Challenges Kripkean orthodoxy; develops Wittgensteinian alternatives in logic, language, and metaphysics; and reassesses fundamental philosophical conceptions.

Kin and kinship matter to us.

Newton's Metaphysics of Substance offers a systematic interpretation of Isaac Newton's views on the ontology of substance and related issues of modality, causation, and dependence.

The Wilderness of the Infinite explores the emergence in the Latinate thirteenth century of original approaches to mathematical infinity and to unequal infinities.

The Wilderness of the Infinite explores the emergence in the Latinate thirteenth century of original approaches to mathematical infinity and to unequal infinities.

'A marvellous, insouciant and liberating book' John Banville, Irish TimesThe global bestselling superstar poet of physics returns with a dazzling philosophical exploration of our place in the universeWhat can we really know about the world around us?

History is littered with scientific errors: bodily humors, atomic affinities, mislabeled planets.

History is littered with scientific errors: bodily humors, atomic affinities, mislabeled planets.

Where are the edges of a tree?

The Early Years of Mind offers a panoramic overview as well as in-depth accounts of the first decades of Mind - one of the leading philosophical journals since almost 150 years.

Where are the edges of a tree?

Imagine two worlds.

The theory of self-assembling games studies how evolutionary games emerge from basic interactions, and explores how once formed, the structure of a game may evolve on continued play.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science contains twenty-seven freshly written chapters to give the reader a panoramic introduction to philosophical issues in the practice of political science.

When life changes, we often lose our sense of where we are headed.

Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on the Humean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity.

The two fundamental pillars of physics for over 100 years have been quantum theory and general relativity, but their unification at short distances remains elusive, both technically and conceptually.

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Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice offers a novel community-centric account of scientific explanation.

Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice offers a novel community-centric account of scientific explanation.

The pilot-wave theory developed by de Broglie and Bohm has a special place in the history of contemporary physics, being the very first alternative formulation of quantum mechanics.

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In an age of 'scientific psychiatry' and evidenced-based medicine, the judgement of the psychiatric clinician in treating an individual patient has been devalued as the 'art' of medicine as opposed to science, with reduced evidentiary value.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony.

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications examines human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with contributions from leading paleobiologists, anthropologists, geologists, philosophers of science, and ethicists.

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications examines human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with contributions from leading paleobiologists, anthropologists, geologists, philosophers of science, and ethicists.

The programme of 'constructive axiomatics', promulgated by Hans Reichenbach in 1924, seeks to build up the architecture of our best theories of physics from basic axioms supposedly imbued with immediate and indubitable empirical content.