Philosophy of science

Intersecting physics and philosophy of science, this book outlines the philosophical challenge to theoretical physics in a measured style.

Intersecting physics and philosophy of science, this book outlines the philosophical challenge to theoretical physics in a measured style.

Presents the observations that helped establish our theories of the cosmos, from a unique and engaging perspective.

Presents the observations that helped establish our theories of the cosmos, from a unique and engaging perspective.

An overview of fine-tuning arguments in physics, for students and researchers in physics and philosophy.

Presents a detailed and critical examination of the available conceptions of set and proposes a novel version.

A collection of essays on the philosophy and foundations of quantum gravity by leading philosophers and physicists in the field.

Discusses ecological models.

A short and accessible introduction to philosophy of science for students and researchers across the life sciences.

A timely and accessible synthesis of the strengths, weaknesses and reality of science through the eyes of a practicing scientist.

A timely and accessible synthesis of the strengths, weaknesses and reality of science through the eyes of a practicing scientist.

This study of mathematical structuralism explores its core concern with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects.

This accessible book presents a new theory of biological functions and connects it to contemporary problems in philosophy and science.

This Element provides an exposition of what the authors believe to be ''biology''s first law''.

Interpreting Kuhn provides a comprehensive, up-to-date study of Thomas Kuhn''s philosophy and legacy.

Discusses ecological models.

An examination of the causal structure of natural selection and its connections to general philosophy of science and metaphysics.

What are the meanings of number expressions, what can they tell us about questions central to the philosophy of mathematics?

This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the ''model organism'' in contemporary biology.

Outlining Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), this volume assesses its viability as the leading alternative to the standard cosmological model.

This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the ''model organism'' in contemporary biology.

Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date volume on the conceptual and philosophical problems related to the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

This work presents probability theory as a logic of confidences, and it critically explores a Bayesian epistemology of scientific reasoning.

What are the meanings of number expressions, what can they tell us about questions central to the philosophy of mathematics?

An examination of the causal structure of natural selection and its connections to general philosophy of science and metaphysics.

A collection of new essays on Ernst Mach''s scientific and philosophical thought by leading Mach scholars.

Explores causation, capacities, organization levels and issues around discovering mechanisms and the clarity of mechanistic representations.

Outlining Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), this volume assesses its viability as the leading alternative to the standard cosmological model.

A collection of new essays on Ernst Mach''s scientific and philosophical thought by leading Mach scholars.

Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities and cognitive capacities.

This study of mathematical structuralism explores its core concern with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects.

This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself.

The philosophical positions of realism and anti-realism are difficult to distinguish, nowhere more so than in the philosophy of mathematics.

Provides a series of essays interpreting and critically evaluating the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend.

This accessible book presents a new theory of biological functions and connects it to contemporary problems in philosophy and science.

Explores causation, capacities, organization levels and issues around discovering mechanisms and the clarity of mechanistic representations.

Provides a series of essays interpreting and critically evaluating the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend.

Presents a detailed and critical examination of the available conceptions of set and proposes a novel version.

A philosophical examination of the deep past, and how paleontologists, archaeologists and geologists tell its story.

Expected Utility Theory can be defended by money-pump arguments.

Proposes an epistemological strategy to resolve controversial issues in the indigenous psychology (IP) movement.

Introduces the topic of limited and changing awareness to those interested in the philosophy of decision-making and uncertain reasoning.

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

This Element establishes the principles of rationality for degrees of belief by appealing to their role in guiding decisions.

This Element introduces the only decision theory that really treats human decisions as part of nature, not supernatural interventions.

An ontological account of the unity of science, focusing on the role of natural kinds and pluralism vs ontological reductionism.

Against the dogma that mental disorders are diseases, this Element argues that mental disorders are biological kinds with harmful effects.

An accessible overview of the contemporary philosophy of causation, introducing the central theories, concepts and key tools.

Presents a collection of essays from leading physicists, philosophers and historians of science providing perspectives on the epistemic status of fundamental physics.

A philosophical examination of the deep past, and how paleontologists, archaeologists and geologists tell its story.