Philosophy of science

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science.

Stover and Erdmann deal with the crises confronting today's world and argue that solutions will come not from new technology nor in retreating to an idealized agrarian past, but by overhauling the beliefs that structure society.

Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and popular, internalist theory of epistemic justification.

As such things happen, several manuscripts in the present volume were under review prior to the ones that appeared in Volume I of the Annals.

Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature.

A unique take on how to survive and thrive in the process your PhD, this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides.

Members of the "e;animal welfare science community"e;, which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than the more "e;sentimental"e; account given by animal liberationists.

The main aim of this book is to contribute to the relationship between science and religion.

Does the solution to our energy crisis depend upon the de- velopment of coal, nuclear, solar, or some other energy source?

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries.

Explores how quantum coherence can be consistently incorporated into Einstein''s theory of gravitation, for researchers in the foundations of physics.

Tanasescu examines the rights of nature in terms of its constituent parts.

This book bridges the gap between the many insights into art provided by research in evolutionary theory, psychology and neuroscience and those enduring normative issues best addressed by philosophy.

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How did science rise up to so dramatically change our world, and where will it take us in the future?

This book seeks to arrive at a better understanding of the relationships between the objective and subjective aspects of time.

This book concentrates on the properties of the stationary states in chaotic systems of particles or fluids, leaving aside the theory of the way they can be reached.

Editor James Fetzer presents an analytical and historical introduction and a comprehensive bibliography together with selections of many of Carl G.

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

This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theoretical constructs, especially in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and philosophy of mind.

Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions.

Ectogenesis refers to the artificial gestation of a fetus outside the womb.

Though thousands of articles and books have been published on various aspects of the Manhattan Project, this book is the first comprehensive single-volume history prepared by a specialist for curious readers without a scientific background.

Bowler traces ideas about progress using evolutionary biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development.

In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue.

This richly illustrated book discusses the ways in which astronomy expanded after 1945 from a modest discipline to a robust and modern science.

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Permeated by the author's delightful humor, this little book explains, with nearly no mathematics, the main conceptual issues associated with quantum mechanics:  The issue of determinism.

This is the first of three volumes which together contain the complete range of Lord Rutherford's scientific papers, incorporating in addition addresses, general lectures, letters to editors, accounts of his scientific work and personal recollections by friends and colleagues.

Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral: "e;Important and timely.

What are individuals?

Mysticism and science: What do they have in common?

Evolution by natural selection explains the tree of life and the complex adaptations found throughout nature.

Economists increasingly recognise that engagement with social ontology - the study of the basic subject matter and constitution of social reality - can facilitate more relevant analysis.

What is risk?

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

There are no books precisely parallel to this one.

This volume gathers together leading philosophers of science and cognitive scientists from around the world to provide one of the first book-length studies of this important and emerging field.

This book focuses on the phenomena of inertia and gravitation, one objective being to shed some new light on the basic laws of gravitational interaction and the fundamental nature and structures of spacetime.

This book is a tribute to the scientific legacy of GianCarlo Ghirardi, who was one of the most influential scientists in the field of modern foundations of quantum theory.

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.

Explores the critical role time plays in our understanding of causality, across psychology, biology, physics and the social sciences.

Professor Danilo Zolo has written an account of Otto Neurath's epistemology which deserves careful reading by all who have studied the development of 20th century philosophy of science.

This book discusses how and why historical measurement units developed, and reviews useful methods for making conversions as well as situations in which dimensional analysis can be used.

This book addresses a tightly knit cluster of questions in the philosophy of mind.

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg's updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction.