Philosophy of science

Is the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence a genuine scientific research programme?

Is the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence a genuine scientific research programme?

How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences?

How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences?

Can science explain everything?

Can science explain everything?

Through intimate conversations with some of the world's most distinguished scientists (including two Nobel Laureates), Faith in Science invites us to explore the connections between scientific and religious approaches to truth.

Through intimate conversations with some of the world's most distinguished scientists (including two Nobel Laureates), Faith in Science invites us to explore the connections between scientific and religious approaches to truth.

In this important new text, Holland seeks to explain, by means of social scientific and philosophical inquiry, the difficulties that researchers often experience when attempting to integrate knowledge from different academic disciplines, either individually or as part of a team of subject specialists.

In this important new text, Holland seeks to explain, by means of social scientific and philosophical inquiry, the difficulties that researchers often experience when attempting to integrate knowledge from different academic disciplines, either individually or as part of a team of subject specialists.

According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who feel she sometimes oversteps the mark'.

According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who feel she sometimes oversteps the mark'.

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Described by the philosopher A.

Kan de wetenschap alles verklaren?

Kan de wetenschap alles verklaren?

Can nature be evil, or ugly, or wrong?

Can nature be evil, or ugly, or wrong?

Philosophy and the Sciences of Exercise, Health and Sport is a unique interdisciplinary study that calls on researchers in these disciplines to reflect more critically on the nature and aims of scientific enquiry.

Philosophy and the Sciences of Exercise, Health and Sport is a unique interdisciplinary study that calls on researchers in these disciplines to reflect more critically on the nature and aims of scientific enquiry.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful influence on contemporary philosophy than any other twentieth-century thinker.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful influence on contemporary philosophy than any other twentieth-century thinker.

Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws.

Mumford outlines a major new theory of natural laws.

Is life a purely physical process?

Is life a purely physical process?

In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions.

In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions.

What are scientists working on today?

What are scientists working on today?

The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years.

The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years.

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others.

Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others.

Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

This book provides a methodological perspective on understanding the essential roles of econometric models in the theory and practice.

This book provides a methodological perspective on understanding the essential roles of econometric models in the theory and practice.

With the spectacular developments in technology accompanying and aiding scientific research over the past few decades, postgraduate students are often encouraged to focus more on generating data than to utilize their most sophisticated piece of equipment: their mind.

With the spectacular developments in technology accompanying and aiding scientific research over the past few decades, postgraduate students are often encouraged to focus more on generating data than to utilize their most sophisticated piece of equipment: their mind.

John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called 'OODA' loop model he developed.

John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called 'OODA' loop model he developed.

What makes time interesting and what is time?

This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also attesting to the importance of the medical humanities in addressing urgent questions that medical science alone cannot resolve.

This is a book about one of the most controversial concepts in economics: the invisible hand.

Philosophy of Science: A Unified Approach combines a general introduction to philosophy of science with an integrated survey of all its important subfields.

Philosophy of Science: A Unified Approach combines a general introduction to philosophy of science with an integrated survey of all its important subfields.

Following Amartya Sen's insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account 'non-utility information,' economists, political scientists and philosophers have recently concentrated their efforts in analysing the issues related to rights, freedom, diversity intentions and equality.