Philosophy of science

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective.

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective.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

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.