Philosophy of science

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.

Explores Galen''s contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology and their legacy in the Islamic world.

Explores Galen''s contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology and their legacy in the Islamic world.

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

Clarifies how to distinguish appropriate and inappropriate influences of values on science – urgently needed in today''s polarised world.

Clarifies how to distinguish appropriate and inappropriate influences of values on science – urgently needed in today''s polarised world.

This book develops a novel account of assertion in terms of its function of sharing knowledge.

This book develops a novel account of assertion in terms of its function of sharing knowledge.

Uses the study of ancient societies and anthropology to suggest a new cross-cultural perspective for the history of science.

Uses the study of ancient societies and anthropology to suggest a new cross-cultural perspective for the history of science.

This Element is an accessible introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification.

This Element is an accessible introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification.

Introduces an original approach to foundations of mathematics, departing from Gödel and Tarski and spanning many different areas of logic.

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

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

This Element examines the relationship between the theory and experimental result and how the latter can support the former.

This Element examines the relationship between the theory and experimental result and how the latter can support the former.

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

Provides a conceptual framework in which to understand the relationship between models and the parts of the world they represent.

An accessible survey of a programme in logic that allows mathematics to be inconsistent.

An accessible exploration of scientific explanation and how it leads to knowledge and understanding of the world.

An accessible exploration of scientific explanation and how it leads to knowledge and understanding of the world.

This Element discusses the problem of mathematical knowledge and its relevance to other areas of philosophical concern.

This is a refreshing account of psychological science that focuses on moral responsibility, collective commitment, and justice.

A unique, brief survey of the metaphysics of biology, which also introduces and advocates a processual perspective on living systems.

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

Provides a conceptual framework in which to understand the relationship between models and the parts of the world they represent.

An accessible survey of a programme in logic that allows mathematics to be inconsistent.

This Element discusses the problem of mathematical knowledge and its relevance to other areas of philosophical concern.

A unique, brief survey of the metaphysics of biology, which also introduces and advocates a processual perspective on living systems.

This is a refreshing account of psychological science that focuses on moral responsibility, collective commitment, and justice.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the history and evolution of the major disciplines of science, which include the basic sciences, bioscience, natural sciences and medical science, with special emphasis on the Indian perspective.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering a sympathetic reconstruction of a philosophy of science commensurate with Marx's thought.

This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering a sympathetic reconstruction of a philosophy of science commensurate with Marx's thought.

First published in 1962 The Origins of Science tries to explain scientific thought from its historical and psychological origins.

First published in 1956 The Language of Modern Physics gives a complete account of the concepts both of classical and quantum physics.

First published in 1962 The Origins of Science tries to explain scientific thought from its historical and psychological origins.

First published in 1956 The Language of Modern Physics gives a complete account of the concepts both of classical and quantum physics.

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay.

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay.

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