Philosophy of science

To make decision theory realistic, I show how to choose rationally when possible outcomes have imprecise probabilities and utilities.

Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities and cognitive capacities.

An ontological account of the unity of science, focusing on the role of natural kinds and pluralism vs ontological reductionism.

Surveys major topics in the epistemology of big data based scientific approaches and defends an inductivist view of these approaches.

Against the dogma that mental disorders are diseases, this Element argues that mental disorders are biological kinds with harmful effects.

Interpreting Kuhn provides a comprehensive, up-to-date study of Thomas Kuhn''s philosophy and legacy.

This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself.

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

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

This Element provides an exposition of what the authors believe to be ''biology''s first law''.

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

Presents a collection of essays from leading physicists, philosophers and historians of science providing perspectives on the epistemic status of fundamental physics.

The philosophical positions of realism and anti-realism are difficult to distinguish, nowhere more so than in the philosophy of mathematics.

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

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

Surveys important literature using game theory and evolutionary game theory to shed light on questions in the philosophy of biology.

Surveys important literature using game theory and evolutionary game theory to shed light on questions in the philosophy of biology.

Establishes new connections between dispositionalism and a variety of debates in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Establishes new connections between dispositionalism and a variety of debates in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science.

A new pragmatist philosophy of science that conceives truth and reality as operational ideals achievable in actual scientific practice.

Unlock today''s statistical controversies and irreproducible results by viewing statistics as probing and controlling errors.

Unlock today''s statistical controversies and irreproducible results by viewing statistics as probing and controlling errors.

An overview of the collapse theories of quantum mechanics written by distinguished physicists and philosophers of physics.

Innovation has a dark side.

A novel and up-to-date approach to quantum mechanics that extends the standard formalism to cover the observer and their apparatus.

A novel and up-to-date approach to quantum mechanics that extends the standard formalism to cover the observer and their apparatus.

Explores how decision-makers can manage uncertainty that varies in both kind and severity by extending and supplementing Bayesian decision theory.

This book introduces readers to the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification, presenting contrasting perspectives on controversial issues.

This book introduces readers to the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification, presenting contrasting perspectives on controversial issues.

In-depth discussion of the value of scientific theories, bringing together and advancing current important debates in realism.

A balanced and accessible introduction to the engagements that feminist scientists and science scholars undertake with a variety of biological sciences.

A balanced and accessible introduction to the engagements that feminist scientists and science scholars undertake with a variety of biological sciences.

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

This text brings history and the key fields of physics together to present a unique technical discussion of the principles of least action.

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.

This text brings history and the key fields of physics together to present a unique technical discussion of the principles of least action.

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.

Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science.

Combining physics and philosophy, this interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science provides an up-to-date examination of developments in this field.

An accessible but rigorous introduction to genes for non-experts, explaining what genes are and what they can and cannot do.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Combining physics and philosophy, this interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science provides an up-to-date examination of developments in this field.

An accessible but rigorous introduction to genes for non-experts, explaining what genes are and what they can and cannot do.

Comprehensive and in-depth study of this important text, the first book of Aristotle''s foundational treatise on natural philosophy.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to all aspects of decision theory, now with new and updated discussions and over 140 exercises.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to all aspects of decision theory, now with new and updated discussions and over 140 exercises.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction, as well as an original contribution, to the main philosophical issues raised by climate science.