Philosophy of science

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.

Innovation has a dark side.

Genetic differences can influence differences in our human behaviours, but only occasionally undermine the reality of our free will.

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

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

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

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

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.

Provides a philosophical and historical critique of contemporary conceptions of physicalism, especially non-reductive, levels-based approaches to physicalist metaphysics.

Explores the significance of the Anthropocene for environmental politics, analysing political concepts in view of contemporary environmental challenges.

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.

Provides a philosophical and historical critique of contemporary conceptions of physicalism, especially non-reductive, levels-based approaches to physicalist metaphysics.

Explores the significance of the Anthropocene for environmental politics, analysing political concepts in view of contemporary environmental challenges.

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.

Examines the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains in modern British medical research.

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.

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

This updated paperback edition contains all the very latest on the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.

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.

Leading experts in psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology integrate the scientific lenses relevant to understanding psychiatric disorders.

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

Examines the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains in modern British medical research.

Leading experts in psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology integrate the scientific lenses relevant to understanding psychiatric disorders.

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

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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.

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

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