Philosophy of science

Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts.

The present volume aims at giving a discussion ot the problems ot reductionism in contemporary life sciences.

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

Explores the significance of the Anthropocene for environmental politics, analysing political concepts in view of contemporary environmental challenges.

Making Sense of the World offers original work on the nature of understanding by a range of distinguished philosophers.

The subject of the book is a biography of the theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951).

This book argues, partly through detailed case studies, for the importance of causal reasoning in physics.

First published in 1998, this book shows that modern materialistic science - for all its ability to analyse in truly impressive detail the workings of the living world - remains powerless to explain the phenomenon of life itself.

The relationship between geography and philosophy is still largely in need of being explored.

This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.

Design and Science addresses the inter-relationship, in both historical and contemporary contexts, between design thinking and design processes and scientific and medical research methods.

Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to with everyday life?

Burtt's book, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, is something of a puzzle within the context of twentieth-century intellectual history, especially American intellectual history.

This book discusses a link between statistical theory and quantum theory based on the concept of epistemic processes.

Reissuing works originally published between 1938 and 1993, this set offers a range of scholarship covering Aristotle's logic, virtues and mathematics as well as a consideration of De Anima and of his work on physics, specifically light.

The Twentieth Century has seen a dramatic rise in the use of probability and statistics in almost all fields of research.

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the world really is the way our best scientific theories describe it .

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How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century?

This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology.

This collection explores the arguments related to veg(etari)anism as they play out in the public sphere and across media, historical eras, and geographical areas.

Als der Atmosphärenchemiker Paul Crutzen und der Limnologe Eugene F.

Covering much of the recent debate, this ambitious text provides new, decisive proof of the reality of the wave function.

The Hungarian emigre Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper.

The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history.

Natural disasters and cholera outbreaks.

This book puts multilevel selection theory into a much needed historical perspective.

From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number of far-reaching unity of science projects.

The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .

The proliferation of chemical substances in commerce poses scientific and philosophical problems.

First published in1966, here is presented a comprehensive overview of one of the most elusive scientific speculations by the pre-eminent genius of the 20th century.

Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology s impact on society and our lives.

Although the debate about the true nature of the quantum behavior of atomic systems has never ceased, there are two periods during which it has been particularly intense: the years that saw the founding of quantum mechanics and, increasingly, these modern times.

Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our political processes less democratic.

Where do we come from?

This edited book presents the problems of time and direction from an interdisciplinary point of view, concentrating in particular on the following relations:* Time and physics* Time, philosophy and psychology* Time, mathematics and information theoryIt is a unique contribution by philosophers and scientists who are active in mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, information theory and psychology.

This book examines central topics in philosophy of biology and challenges much of the current thinking.

A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael ShermerIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create heaven on earth.

In the debate leading up to the EU referendum in the United Kingdom, the British politician Michael Gove declared that "e;people in this country have had enough of experts"e;.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology.

Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues.

These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associations.

This book is about scientific theories of a particular kind - theories of mathematical physics.

The idea for this issue arose during a gathering of scholars to com- memorate the hundredth anniversary of Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), the philosopher from Germany whose influence gave Austria its most characteristic philosophical voice between the two world wars.

The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities.

This book offers a step-by-step introduction to an integrated theory of physical and biological evolution, from the early universe to the world we know today.