Philosophy of science

Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century.

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics.

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics.

Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective intentionality, and human agency; or by following a strategy that promotes the quest for completely autonomous concepts.

Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective intentionality, and human agency; or by following a strategy that promotes the quest for completely autonomous concepts.

The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines.

The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines.

Population health has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of twentieth-century public health and medicine into a theoretical framework with a corresponding field of research-population health science.

Population health has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of twentieth-century public health and medicine into a theoretical framework with a corresponding field of research-population health science.

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law.

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law.

Although philosophers have explored memory since antiquity, recent years have seen the birth of philosophy of memory as a distinct field.

Although philosophers have explored memory since antiquity, recent years have seen the birth of philosophy of memory as a distinct field.

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects.

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects.

Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the philosophy of science and aesthetics.

Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the philosophy of science and aesthetics.

Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years.

Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years.

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective.

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective.

In this beautifully written book, David E.

In this beautifully written book, David E.

Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.

Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.

Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other.

Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other.

This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification.

This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification.

'A scientific opinion is one which there is some reason to believe is true; an unscientific opinion is one which is held for some reason other than its probable truth.

'A scientific opinion is one which there is some reason to believe is true; an unscientific opinion is one which is held for some reason other than its probable truth.

In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism.

In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism.

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with the self and proposes a solution-the Multitudinous Self Model (MuSe).

These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associations.

These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associations.

This book seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an ontology of the natural world that matches all of today's well-established physical theories.

This book seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an ontology of the natural world that matches all of today's well-established physical theories.

The intersection between morality and emotion is not always easily discernible.

The intersection between morality and emotion is not always easily discernible.

Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)?

Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)?

This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities in general and spatial perception in particular in a systematic and interdisciplinary way.

This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities in general and spatial perception in particular in a systematic and interdisciplinary way.

We are all captivated and puzzled by the infinite, in its many varied guises; by the endlessness of space and time; by the thought that between any two points in space, however close, there is always another; by the fact that numbers go on forever; and by the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful God.

First published in 1996, Science as a Questioning Process evaluates scientific theories through from Darwinian evolution to relativity, and from quantum theory to cosmology.

First published in 1996, Science as a Questioning Process evaluates scientific theories through from Darwinian evolution to relativity, and from quantum theory to cosmology.

We are all captivated and puzzled by the infinite, in its many varied guises; by the endlessness of space and time; by the thought that between any two points in space, however close, there is always another; by the fact that numbers go on forever; and by the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful God.