Philosophy of science

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The first six chapters of this volume present the author's 'predictive' or information theoretic' approach to statistical mechanics, in which the basic probability distributions over microstates are obtained as distributions of maximum entropy (Le.

A few days before his death my husband requested me to write a few words of thanks on the publication of this collection of articles.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects.

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

At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science.

Is the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence a genuine scientific research programme?

What is the origin of our universe?

In Vienna in the 1920s a group of brilliant philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists - led by figures such as Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Hahn - gathered to discuss the foundations of science and mathematics.

This book provides a comprehensive account of vascular biology and pathology and its significance for health and disease.

Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity.

By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism.

In this collection of new and previously published essays, noted philosopher Eric Schliesser offers new interpretations of the signifance of Isaac Newton's metaphysics on his physics and the subsequent development of philosophy more broadly.

In this small book, theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel prize 1999), philosopher Emanuele Severino (Lincei Academician), and theologian Piero Coda (Pontifical Lateran University) confront one another on a topic that lies at the roots of quantum mechanics and at the origin of Western thought: Determinism and Free Will.

Offers an accessible yet cutting-edge tour of the many conceptual interconnections between physics and computer science.

Are there truly fundamental entities in nature?

Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis.

Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors.

Presents a fresh perspective that explores the development of psychology as both a human and a natural science.

This book is Ellery Eells'' influential examination and analysis of theories of rational decision making.

This book is an exploration of the fundamental metaphysical problems of substance, space and time.

In this long-awaited book, pre-eminent analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.

Explains the rapid rise of China''s innovation system and provides a roadmap for the prospects of China''s AI development.

This book is designed as a textbook for students who need to fulfil their science requirements.

First published in 1951 to coincide with the British Festival, this book explores the developments in science which had occurred since the Great Exhibition of 1851.

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to Adam Smith, one of the most important economic thinkers.

This book examines the foundations of defeasible logic, exploring the properties of everyday reasoning patterns.

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

We live in a space, we get about in it.

The book is inspired by the second seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano.

This Companion commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species and examines all of its main arguments.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is widely regarded as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century.

Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault.

Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self.

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

Textbooks and other popular venues commonly present science as a progressive "e;brick-by-brick"e; accumulation of knowledge and facts.

The current volume of the Parmenides Series "e;On Thinking"e; addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of "e;the present,"e; from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy.

Provides a minimal metaphysics for scientific practice, yielding new accounts of lawhood, causation and reduction.

In this, the first book devoted to Peter Achinstein's influential work in philosophy of science, twenty distinguished philosophers, including four Lakatos award winners, address various aspects of Achinstein's influential views on the nature of scientific evidence, scientific explanation, and scientific realism.

A collection of original essays by major thinkers, addressing how the biological sciences inform and inspire philosophical research.

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologiesOur ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, depends on knowledge provided by scientists and other experts.

Chapters "e;Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate"e; and "e;Turing and the History of Computer Music"e; are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

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

Arguing for a renewed view of objects and nature, Ethical Responses to Nature's Call considers how it is possible to understand our ethical duties - in the form of ethical intuitionalism - to nature and the planet by listening to and releasing ourselves over to the call or address of nature.

In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy.