Philosophy of science

This book explores how and why exchanges across civilizations have come to enrich science today.

Lochlann Jain's debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things.

Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in technology use and thus daily living.

This is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.

This volume, the third in this Springer series, contains selected papers from the four workshops organized by the ESF Research Networking Programme "e;The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective"e; (PSE) in 2010: Pluralism in the Foundations of Statistics Points of Contact between the Philosophy of Physics and the Philosophy of Biology The Debate on Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and StatisticsThe volume is accordingly divided in four sections, each of them containing papers coming from the workshop focussing on one of these themes.

This book describes the picture of reality given by Newton, and the development of the later picture of reality given by field theory.

Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe.

The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers.

This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time.

This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotly debated questions in philosophy of biology Lively head-to-head debate format sharply defines the issues and paves the way for further discussion Includes coverage of the new and vital area of evolutionary developmental biology, as well as the concept of a unified species, the role of genes in selection, the differences between micro- and macro-evolution, and much more Each section features an introduction to the topic as well as suggestions for further reading Offers an accessible overview of this fast-growing and dynamic field, whilst also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers and biologists

An original interpretation of the connection between idealism, history and nationalism in Fichte''s general philosophical, educational and moral project.

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy.

Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA and Australia.

This book examines the nuanced and situated experiences of self-study researchers.

An innovative integrated approach to classical physics and the beginnings of quantum physics through a sequence of historical case studies.

As a discipline, social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism.

Writing even in overview of more than a half-century of professional life of a giant of twentieth century science and technology such as Edward Teller is a daunting task.

Since the seventeenth century our ideas of scientific authorship have expanded and changed dramatically.

A collection of new essays examining the impact of Neo-Kantianism on a range of philosophical topics and fields of study.

This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld.

In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions of health and immunity that have persisted since the 19th century, and had a formative influence over the design of not only homes, but entire cities.

The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and of science--one that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, and that casts the work of science as an effort to discover and understand those mechanisms.

This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science.

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive textbook offers an exceptionally accessible yet in-depth introduction to the philosophy of social science.

This book employs contemporary philosophy, scientific research, and clinical reports to argue that pain, though real, is not an appropriate object of scientific generalisations or an appropriate target for medical intervention.

This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program.

Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Wolodzko urges us to rethink our relationship with ourselves, each other and other organisms.

The text of two series of lectures given by one of the great philosopher-scientists of the century.

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

This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism.

This book presents the second volume of Piola's original Italian text together with the English-language translation and comments, showing convincingly that Gabrio Piola's work must still be regarded as a modern theory.

This book presents a perspective on the history of theoretical physics over the past two hundreds years.

This book explores the moving qualities of mountains by utilising theories, ideas and processes which contribute to a larger understanding of these geological forms.

A scientist's personal reflections on how to harness creativity and curiosity to generate new ideas and discover the unexpectedLike any creative endeavor, science can be a messy and chaotic affair.

Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent.

Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind.

The Handbook of Bioethical Decisions Volume II addresses and analyzes the most important ethical concerns and moral quandaries related to scientific integrity and institutional ethics.

Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field.

David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time.

The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds’ inner workings.

In this compendium of essays, some of the world's leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline.

In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time.

This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences of complexity, and a few workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the wider implications of complexity studies.

Originally published in 1937.

Although scientific models and simulations differ in numerous ways, they are similar in so far as they are posing essentially philosophical problems about the nature of representation.

This revised and enhanced new edition of a well-established textbook provides a balanced overview of various areas of theoretical physics based on the use of variational principles.

In its modern usage, the term "e;consilience"e; was first established by Edward O.

Dovring explores the limits of science as causes of ignorance.