Philosophy of science

Carl G.

While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life.

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.

A unique take on how to survive and thrive in the process your PhD, this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides.

This book explores the different conceptions of reality in the various interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, demonstrating the intimate connection to philosophy of physics.

This book examines Aristotle''s use of the theory of natural teleology in producing explanations of natural phenomena.

Science should tell us what the world is like.

The Encyclopaedia fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural stud- ies.

Communication: The Essence of Science provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of scientific communication.

In this challenging and provocative book, Steve Fuller contends that our continuing faith in science in the face of its actual history is best understood as the secular residue of a religiously inspired belief in divine providence.

Shakespeare's Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure.

This volume offers critical responses to philosophical naturalism from the perspectives of four different yet fundamentally interconnected philosophical traditions: Kantian idealism, Hegelian idealism, British idealism, and American pragmatism.

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise's conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences.

The centerpiece of Emilie Du Chatelet's philosophy of science is her Foundations of Physics, first published in 1740.

In this collection of essays, the four branches of radical cognitive science-embodied, embedded, enactive and ecological-will dialogue with performance, with particular focus on post-cognitivist approaches to understanding the embodied mind-in-society; de-emphasising the computational and representational metaphors; and embracing new conceptualisations grounded on the dynamic interactions of "e;brain, body and world"e;.

The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981.

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition.

The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996.

The first comprehensive exploration of the nature and value of understanding, addressing burgeoning debates in epistemology and philosophy of science.

This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

The major innovations which have occurred between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century represent a fresh challenge to the responsibility of innovators.

Muhammad Ali Khalidi proposes a new approach to classifications in the natural and social sciences, avoiding essentialism and social constructionism.

This book presents in full the work of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana and explains its impacts, which are still being felt.

Long before science as we know it today existed, sophisticated studies of the external world were undertaken, notably in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece.

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932.

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

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined.

In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science.

Examines the implications of evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology for some of the most important philosophical questions.

For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E.

If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion?

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson's L'evolution creatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc- tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London.

Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science.

A concise guide to the principles of scientific method with applications across all sciences, both basic and applied.

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The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlstrom emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptualization and inquiry is irreducibly valuational.

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education: "e;You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"e; continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the teaching of bioethics from disparate disciplines, geographies, and contexts.

The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

Biologists, climate scientists, and economists all rely on models to move their work forward.

In the follow-up to his acclaimed Science in the Looking Glass, Brian Davies discusses deep problems about our place in the world, using a minimum of technical jargon.

What is free will?

Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy.

There has recently been considerable discussion of a "e;replication crisis"e; in some areas of science.

This book is based on two premises: one cannot understand philosophy of mathematics without understanding mathematics and one cannot understand mathematics without doing mathematics.