Philosophy of science

Haunted Data explores the concepts that are at work in our complex relationships with data.

New concepts are constantly being introduced into our thinking.

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science.

Who are we in simulated worlds?

Originally published in 1950.

Presenting a realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics and, in particular, a realistic view of quantum waves, this book defends, with one exception, Schrodinger's views on quantum mechanics.

Shedding new light on Einstein''s study of unified field theory, this book will interest physicists, historians and philosophers of science.

In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature.

Computational methods have become the dominant technique in many areas of science.

Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities.

This book discusses Collingwood's conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis.

An introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism, first published in 1983.

Collected essays from the New York Times-bestselling author's celebrated columns in Scientific American.

Addressing a wide range of topics, from Newton to Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science, these essays critically examine themes that have been central to the influential work of philosopher Michael Friedman.

This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion.

First published in 1998, Loughlin examines the conception of rationality through the gazes of science, philosophy and political philosophy to further explain the concept of rational reasoning, the effects it has on the development on natural and social science and its implications on how we think about morals and politics.

Anyone who claims the right 'to choose how to live their life' excludes any purely deterministic description of their brain in terms of genes, chemicals or environmental influences.

Science and Ethics examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science.

The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality.

Philosophers approach the problem of possibility in two markedly different ways: with reference to worlds, whereby an event is possible if there is a world in which it occurs, and with reference to modal properties, whereby an event is a possible manifestation of a property of some substance or object.

Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this.

Checking is a very common concept for describing a subject's epistemic goals and actions.

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay.

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious thought.

Applying new skills to established topics, this is how you want to examine human geography.

This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural and geographical, and as a question of life and death.

Discusses ecological models.

This book brings together about 2,500 quotations on various topics of interest to scientists and engineers, including students of STEM disciplines.

Originally published in 1981.

This volume examines the Prisoner''s Dilemma, exploring its continued significance and ramifications in varying fields of study.

In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie - The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge - as '.

Examines how the philosophy of biology has evolved to our current understanding.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

This new edition of Thomas Kuhn's Revolution marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kuhn's most influential work.

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

This book outlines a theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an intrinsic aspect of evolutionary biology.

On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the "e;turbulence problem"e;.

This is a collection of essays on the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology by the well-known Canadian scholar, Michael Ruse.

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research.

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time.

Concepts related to probability permeate physics.

One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein.

Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a fuhrer over God, and personal gain over professional ethics.

This major new series in the philosophy of science aims to provide a new generation of textbooks for the subject.

In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction, as well as an original contribution, to the main philosophical issues raised by climate science.

Originally published in 1957 and written by one of the 20th Century's leading botanists and a fierce advocate of organicism, this book explores concepts about man and his relation to life and the universe, and about the great creative and spiritual powers within and around him.

As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?