Philosophy of science

This book gives a critical evaluation of the Vienna Circle, its historical influences, and the philosophical legacy of logical empiricism.

This book seeks to fill a void in contemporary aesthetics scholarship by considering the cognitive features that make the aesthetic and artistic worthy of philosophical study.

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism.

This self-contained essay collection is published to commemorate half a century of Bell's theorem.

Originally published in 1967.

A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics.

A book that combines moral and political philosophy with traditions of activism and literature in a background of scientific knowledge and interpretation to build a comprehensive picture of an ecological humanity.

This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution.

Letters from 1875, when Darwin published Insectivorous plants and began work on Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.

Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity.

This book provides guidelines to key soil taxa in the deserts of Kuwait and guidance to associated procedures for laboratory analyses of soils, leading to land use planning on informed decisions.

This book has been a long time in the making.

This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern philosophy by highlighting Pierre Bayle's engagement with non-Christian sources.

Appeals to human dignity are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time.

Cuando indagamos con referencia al origen, evolución y fin de la vida; no podemos detenernos a pensar en uno mismo como un ente individual.

First published in 1995.

This book presents the latest research, conducted by leading philosophers and scientists from various fields, on the topic of top-down causation.

Explore the latest scientific research, philosophical thinking, and expressions of human creativity.

It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free.

This book offers an extensive assessment of the nature and feasibility of the metaverse and is the first to critically examine its social and ethical implications.

Originally published in 1960, The Future of Man is a chronicle of Professor Medwar's Reith lectures of 1959.

For a decade, we have admired the incisive and broadly informed works of Ladislav Tondl on the foundations of science.

This book explains the role of simple biological model systems in the growth of molecular biology.

This volume contains ten new essays focused on the exploration and articulation of a narrative that considers the notion of order within medieval and modern philosophy--its various kinds (natural, moral, divine, and human), the different ways in which each is conceived, and the diverse dependency relations that are thought to obtain among them.

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

Why do so many Americans reject the modern theory of evolution?

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas.

Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world.

This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism.

One of the most attractive features of the young discipline of Space Science is that many of the original pioneers and key players involved are still available to describe their field.

John Dupre explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society.

First published in 1967, The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science and on the logical connections between creative and critical thought.

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.

The first full-length historical study of the intellectual origins and institutional context of the nineteenth-century German thinker Hermann Lotze.

Proponents of the concept of ecological integrity argue that it is a necessary component of global governance on which the sustainable future of the planet and its inhabitants depends.

Using COVID-19 as a base, this groundbreaking book brings together several renowned scholars to explore the concept of crisis, and how this global event has shaped the discipline of psychology.

Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics.

This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist.

In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate.

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region.

Originally published in 1992.

This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, particularly as developed by Tartaglia in his Quesiti et inventioni diverse, Book VII and Book VIII (1546; 1554).

The role of experts and their expertise, in our personal and social lives, has taken centre stage in the debates about our post-COVID-19 world.

This monograph presents a new perspective on the history of general relativity.