Philosophy of science

The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone's right to "e;share in scientific advancement and its benefits"e; and to "e;enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.

There is currently a burgeoning interest in the relationship between the Western psychotherapeutic and Buddhist meditative traditions among therapists, researchers, and spiritual seekers.

To scientists, the tsunami of relativism, scepticism, and postmodernism that washed through the humanities in the twentieth century was all water off a ducks back.

From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number of far-reaching unity of science projects.

Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life.

Science fiction explores the wonderful, baffling and wildly entertaining aspects of a universe unimaginably old and vast, and with a future even more immense.

Species Problems and Beyond offers a collection of up-to-date essays discussing from an interdisciplinary perspective the many ramifications of the 'Species Problem.

In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that there are no objects.

This book about the philosophy of science is the second out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series.

The main item in the present volume was published in 1930 under the title Das Unendliche in der Mathematik und seine Ausschaltung.

Balancing readability with intellectual rigor, this is an essential guide to understanding the complex relationship between psychology, science, and pseudoscience.

This book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences.

This third volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science contains papers which are based upon Colloquia from 1964 to 1966.

This Element provides an entry point for philosophical engagement with quantization and the classical limit.

This book develops and establishes knowledge about borderology in the border zone between different countries, cultures, and climatic environment.

What do we see?

For readers concerned about the roots of the public mistrust of science, get the book that Publishers Weekly says is "e;an ardent appraisal of what ails the scientific establishment.

This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy.

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This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate realist and empiricist perspective.

David Papineau presents a controversial view of human reason, portraying it as a normal part of the natural world, and drawing on the empirical sciences to illuminate its workings.

This book traces the evolution of the ideas that eventually resulted in the elementary quantum theory in 1925/26.

Recent years have seen a rise in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the mind.

"e;An engaging, insightful, and challenging call to examine both the rhetoric and reality of innovation and inclusion in science and science policy.

Critical edition, translation, and extended interpretation of this important work which reveals the operation of Aristotle''s methodology.

Explores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Starting from the earlier notions of stationary action principles, these tutorial notes shows how Schwinger's Quantum Action Principle descended from Dirac's formulation, which independently led Feynman to his path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics.

Emile Meyerson's writings on the philosophy of science are a rich source of ideas and information concerning many philosophical and historical aspects of the development of modem science.

This new scientific biography explores the influences on, and of, Galileo's exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the worldviews of his age and beyond.

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline-and how to save itPsychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us?

Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures explores how our conceptions of time, space, and the physical universe have evolved across cultures throughout the centuries.

This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead's organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices.

What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative?

Questions central tenets of the current philosophical consensus about mechanisms and develops the novel alternative of Methodological Mechanism.

This book presents a substantial collection of essays from a wide range of well respected scholars addressing several aspects of Piero Sraffa's economics in light of continuing controversies over the interpretation that should be placed on his work.

Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recognized - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour.

Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields.

Sind Wahrheit und Schönheit verbunden?

This book is uniquely about the relationship between the optical telescope and astronomy as they developed together.

Originally published in 1991.

This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching metaphysical and epistemological consequences for Hume's philosophy.

This book presents a systematic design methodology for decoding the interior structure of the Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical device from ancient Greece.

This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel.

The various efforts to develop a Marxist philosophy of science in the one- time 'socialist' countries were casualties of the Cold War.

Leibniz's metaphysics of space and time stands at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the high-water marks in the history of the philosophy of science.

SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "e;Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De- velopment and European Expansion"e; is the product of an International Colloquium, "e;Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien- tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries"e;.