Philosophy of science

Reviews the conceptual basis of evidence-based medicine and the ethical issues it gives rise to.

This collection of essays examines the question of theory from the perspective of the history of chemistry.

Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the physics and metaphysics of chance and time.

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense against pathogens.

Newton is an evocative intellectual history of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton the natural philosopher, covering his influential thoughts about philosophical problems, our knowledge of nature, and even the nature of the divine.

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability.

A detailed account of the contemporary controversy surrounding the publication of Albert Einstein''s theory of relativity.

In this book I discuss the justification of scientific change and argue that it rests on different sorts of invariance.

The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism.

The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision sets an agenda for exploring the future of what we - human beings reimagining our selves and our society - want, need and ought to know.

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get the most out of lifeToday's world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy.

Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy.

Based on the lecture notes of a school titled 'Tides in Astronomy and Astrophysics' that brought together students and researchers, this book focuses on the fundamental theories of tides at different scales of the universe-from tiny satellites to whole galaxies-and on the most recent developments.

As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C.

Contemporary interest in Darwin rises from a general ideal of what Darwin's books ought to contain: a theory of transformation of species by natural selection.

Originally published in 1957, The Uniqueness of the Individual is a collection of 9 essays published from the ten years preceding publication.

This book offers the first comprehensive and authoritative text on the history of physics in Italy's industrial and financial capital, from the foundation of the University of Milan's Institute of Physics in 1924 up to the early 1960s, when it moved to its current location.

This book presents a philosophical interpretation to numerical cognition based on dual process theories and heuristics.

Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science and to a large extent his 'paradigm shift' view has replaced logical positivism and the philosophy of Karl Popper.

Going beyond the division of nature and society, this unique book explores human life as a process of biosocial becoming.

This book addresses several of the foundational problems in thermophysics, i.

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Reissuing five works originally published between 1937 and 1991, this collection contains books addressing the subject of time, from a mostly philosophic point of view but also of interest to those in the science and mathematics worlds.

In this collection of interrelated essays, the authors review landmark developments in electrochemistry building on biographic material and personal insight.

In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress.

This book, first published in 1938, is based upon the Muirhead lectures on political philosophy delivered in the University of Birmingham in January and February of 1938.

The concept of a chemical element is foundational within the field of chemistry, but there is wide disagreement over its definition.

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This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia.

For over 40 years, Mary Midgley made a forceful case for the relevance and importance of philosophy.

This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology.

A critical assessment of the standard cosmological model and its main challenger, modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND).

Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws.

We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology.

This self-contained essay collection is published to commemorate half a century of Bell's theorem.

This is the first book dedicated to the topic of epistemic autonomy.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the characterization of vagueness in pictures.

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood.

This book argues that our current best theories of fundamental physics are best interpreted as positing spacetime as non-fundamental.

Showing that different approaches can be combined in a single disciplinary framework, Scott argues that sociologists can transcend theoretical differences.

Arne Naess is considered one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities has been the traditional tendency to focus on the horizontal dimension of wholes (i.

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time of Galileo.

In this wide-ranging philosophical work, Koons takes on two powerful dogmas--anti-realism and materialism.

Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.

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