Philosophy of science

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

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

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

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

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

Surveys major topics in the epistemology of big data based scientific approaches and defends an inductivist view of these approaches.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

Challenges traditional evolutionary, psychological and neurobiological theories by using the ecology of art to explore art behaviors.

Surveys important literature using game theory and evolutionary game theory to shed light on questions in the philosophy of biology.

Surveys important literature using game theory and evolutionary game theory to shed light on questions in the philosophy of biology.

A novel and up-to-date approach to quantum mechanics that extends the standard formalism to cover the observer and their apparatus.

A novel and up-to-date approach to quantum mechanics that extends the standard formalism to cover the observer and their apparatus.

This book introduces readers to the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification, presenting contrasting perspectives on controversial issues.

This book introduces readers to the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification, presenting contrasting perspectives on controversial issues.

A balanced and accessible introduction to the engagements that feminist scientists and science scholars undertake with a variety of biological sciences.

A balanced and accessible introduction to the engagements that feminist scientists and science scholars undertake with a variety of biological sciences.

Combining physics and philosophy, this interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science provides an up-to-date examination of developments in this field.

Combining physics and philosophy, this interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science provides an up-to-date examination of developments in this field.

This book tackles the most difficult and profound open questions about life and its origins from an information-based perspective.

This book tackles the most difficult and profound open questions about life and its origins from an information-based perspective.

Hacking explores how mathematics became possible for the human race, and how it ensured our status as the dominant species.

Hacking explores how mathematics became possible for the human race, and how it ensured our status as the dominant species.

Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends.

An introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism, first published in 1983.

Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends.

An introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism, first published in 1983.

Explicitness is one of the fundamental mysteries in which our lives are wrapped.

New insights from the science of science
 
Facts change all the time.

Quando se trata de antigas ciências médicas, os mal-entendidos e a confusão prevalecem.

Cuando se trata de ciencias médicas antiguas, prevalecen los malentendidos y la confusión.

Rigorous and interdisciplinary perspective on the meaning and origin of the arrow of time, drawing on physics and its philosophy.

Rigorous and interdisciplinary perspective on the meaning and origin of the arrow of time, drawing on physics and its philosophy.

Explores the interesting and challenging philosophical terrain where issues regarding cooperation, commitment, and control intersect.

Explores the interesting and challenging philosophical terrain where issues regarding cooperation, commitment, and control intersect.

Explore the computational possibilities unleashed by modern physics.

Science is intimately shaped by social and political values.

Science is intimately shaped by social and political values.

Examines the influences on and impact of Thomas Kuhn''s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Examines the influences on and impact of Thomas Kuhn''s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.