Philosophy of science

Metaphor lies at the heart of the contemporary debate in aesthetics, semantics and the philosophy of science.

This book is about the 1604 supernova and presents the translation of key documents discussing this astronomical event in Italy.

The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is the first collective critical study of this important period in intellectual history.

Quels rapports l’homme entretient-il avec ses espaces ?

Wie sich Physiker wissensproduktiv die schöne Literatur zueigen gemacht habenIm Einstein-Archiv in Jerusalem stehen in der Bibliothek aus dem Nachlass des Physikers neben wissenschaftlichen Publikationen auch Werke von Goethe und Heine.

Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always?

Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it.

This book argues that conscious experience is sometimes extended outside the brain and body into certain kinds of environmental interaction and tool use.

Adolf Grunbaum is one of the giants of 20th century philosophy of science.

This volume owes its origin to the perception of a puzzling paradox.

Leading historians explore the complex and contingent histories of religious engagements with science, and challenge the famous ''conflict thesis''.

2 result of the attitudes characteristic of the small group of permanent residents at the schools, the academic scholars.

Containing the proceedings of the symposium held by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Niels Bohr, this collection was first published in 1988.

There is also a large and growing consensus in the scientific community that resolving the environmental crisis will require massive changes in our political and economic institutions and new standards for moral and ethical behavior.

What are species?

Philosophy has come to seem like a specialist interest with little or no influence on our lives.

Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions--conflicts between metaphysics and metaphysics.

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Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves?

Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement.

A "e;thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining"e; look at the historical connections between science and liberal democracy, and the forces that threaten both (The Wall Street Journal).

Applied ethics is an essential part of practical knowledge in pluralistic and democratic societies.

A 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis book surveys and examines the most famous philosophical arguments against building a machine with human-level intelligence.

Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene have aroused fierce controversy by arguing for the powerful influence of genes on human behavior.

Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation.

Originally published in 1981.

This book clearly introduces the major topics in logic and their relation to current philosophical issues.

Presents a summary of current research on the philosophical issues inherent in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics.

Kosik writes that the history of a text is in a certain sense the history of its interpretations.

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.

The task of the book is not to give a survey of the main theories on truth found in the literature.

This book offers the most complete and up-to-date overview of the philosophical work of Evandro Agazzi, presently the most important Italian philosopher of science and one of the most influential in the world.

The International Congresses of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, which are held every fourth year, give a cross-section of ongoing research in logic and philosophy of science.

The corps of philosophers who make up the Society for Philosophy & Technology has now been collaborating, in one fashion or another, for almost fifteen years.

This handbook is a 'one-stop shop' for current information, issues and challenges in the fields of research ethics and scientific integrity.

This third volume of American University Publications in Philos- ophy continues the tradition of presenting books in the series shaping current frontiers and new directions in phi.

Rarely has the history or philosophy of mathematics been written about by mathematicians, and the analysis of mathematical texts themselves has been an area almost entirely unexplored.

First published in 1931, this volume represents the culmination of twenty years' of the study on the principles of science.

Für eine Erneuerung unseres Begriffs von Wissen und Handeln.

Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s, philosophical consensus has turned against the idea that mental processes could be identified with brain processes, and multiple realization has become the keystone of the 'antireductive consensus' across philosophy of science broadly.

Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend.

This book clearly explains bioethical issues and their philosophical foundations to science students, encouraging critical thinking about the ethics of biotechnology.

To make decision theory realistic, I show how to choose rationally when possible outcomes have imprecise probabilities and utilities.

This book presents the most complete translation to date of Erwin Schrodinger's work on colorimetry.

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution.