Philosophy of science

Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry.

A certain kind of talk is ubiquitous among both philosophers and so-called "e;ordinary people"e;: talk of one phenomenon generating or giving rise to another, or talk of one phenomenon being based in or constructed from another.

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art?

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art?

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action.

As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future.

As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future.

Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "e;ether"e; (or "e;aether"e;), in the early twentieth century.

Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "e;ether"e; (or "e;aether"e;), in the early twentieth century.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II builds on Volume I, which established that no generic concept of action will suffice for understanding the character of divine actions explicit in the Christian faith.

The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy.

The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy.

Causal powers are ubiquitous.

Causal powers are ubiquitous.

Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity.

Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity.

Model theory is used in every theoretical branch of analytic philosophy: in philosophy of mathematics, in philosophy of science, in philosophy of language, in philosophical logic, and in metaphysics.

The nature and reality of self is a subject of increasing prominence among Western philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists.

Probability is increasingly important for our understanding of the world.

If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion?

If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion?

Intuitions may seem to play a fundamental role in philosophy: but their role and their value have been challenged recently.

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other?

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other?

Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion.

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations.

This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing.

This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing.

Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction.

Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, or Basic Laws of Arithmetic, was intended to be his magnum opus, the book in which he would finally establish his logicist philosophy of arithmetic.

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Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "e;many worlds"e; theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy.

Metaphysics and Science brings together important new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science.

Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics is a conceptual analysis of one the most prominent and exciting new areas of physics, providing the first full-length philosophical treatment of quantum information theory and the questions it raises for our understanding of the quantum world.

Synaesthesia is, in the words of the cognitive neuroscientist Cytowic, a strange sensory blending.

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P.

What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series?

In recent years philosophers of science have urged that many scientific theories are extremely useful and successful despite being internally inconsistent.

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?

Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the physics and metaphysics of chance and time.

Causation is at once familiar and mysterious.

How should we reason in science?

Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day.

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things?

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things?

The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence.

Not everything is black and white.

Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations.

Hans Christian orsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time.

Hans Christian orsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time.