Philosophy of science

The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters-written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers-that assess the past, present, and future of pragmatism.

The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters-written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers-that assess the past, present, and future of pragmatism.

Scientific realism is a central, long-standing, and hotly debated topic in philosophy of science.

Scientific realism is a central, long-standing, and hotly debated topic in philosophy of science.

Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today.

Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today.

What Is Scientific Knowledge?

What Is Scientific Knowledge?

This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism.

This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism.

Debates over relativism are as old as philosophy itself.

Debates over relativism are as old as philosophy itself.

Some of philosophy's biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong?

Some of philosophy's biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong?

Luck permeates our lives, and this raises a number of pressing questions: What is luck?

Luck permeates our lives, and this raises a number of pressing questions: What is luck?

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism.

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism.

Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective.

Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective.

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present.

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present.

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor.

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor.

The central question of naturalism - the relation of philosophy to science - was one of the defining strands of twentieth-century thought and remains a major source of debate and controversy.

The central question of naturalism - the relation of philosophy to science - was one of the defining strands of twentieth-century thought and remains a major source of debate and controversy.

Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices.

Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices.

In this collection of essays, the four branches of radical cognitive science-embodied, embedded, enactive and ecological-will dialogue with performance, with particular focus on post-cognitivist approaches to understanding the embodied mind-in-society; de-emphasising the computational and representational metaphors; and embracing new conceptualisations grounded on the dynamic interactions of "e;brain, body and world"e;.

In this collection of essays, the four branches of radical cognitive science-embodied, embedded, enactive and ecological-will dialogue with performance, with particular focus on post-cognitivist approaches to understanding the embodied mind-in-society; de-emphasising the computational and representational metaphors; and embracing new conceptualisations grounded on the dynamic interactions of "e;brain, body and world"e;.

Philosophers increasingly engage in practical work with other disciplines and the world at large.

Philosophers increasingly engage in practical work with other disciplines and the world at large.

With the failure of economics to predict the recent economic crisis, the image of economics as a rigorous mathematical science has been subjected to increasing interrogation.

With the failure of economics to predict the recent economic crisis, the image of economics as a rigorous mathematical science has been subjected to increasing interrogation.

In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy.

In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy.

According to the moral error theorist, all moral judgments are mistaken.

According to the moral error theorist, all moral judgments are mistaken.

Since its development as a field over the last part of the twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have been heavily concerned with methodological issues.

Since its development as a field over the last part of the twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have been heavily concerned with methodological issues.

Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories.

Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories.

Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters.

Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters.

Relativism can be found in all philosophical traditions and subfields of philosophy.

Relativism can be found in all philosophical traditions and subfields of philosophy.

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could change with the current reform of the International System of Units (SI).

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could change with the current reform of the International System of Units (SI).

Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science.

Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science.