Philosophy of science

Skepticism is one of the most enduring and profound of philosophical problems.

Philosophers have not taken the evolution of human beings seriously enough.

Reflecting upon the recent growth of interest in feminist ideas of philosophy of science, this book traces the development of the subject within the confines of feminist philosophy.

In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar.

A translation of Kant''s mature reflections on issues in the philosophy of natural science.

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition.

The advance of scienti?

Summarising the most novel facts and theories which were coming into prominence at the time, particularly those which had not yet been incorporated into standard textbooks, this important work was first published in 1921.

How is medical knowledge made?

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

This accessible book presents a new theory of biological functions and connects it to contemporary problems in philosophy and science.

This book builds on the path-breaking work of George E.

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers.

First Published in 2004.

At the end of the Eighteenth century, British writers began to celebrate work in a strangely indirect way.

This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences.

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics.

This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies.

Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning investigates the metaphysical position of dual-aspect monism, with particular emphasis on the concept of meaning as a fundamental feature of the fabric of reality.

Originally published in 1982.

Population health has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of twentieth-century public health and medicine into a theoretical framework with a corresponding field of research-population health science.

This book presents a unique, feminist approach to 'sex' dolls and 'sex' robots, taking a critical look at the academic and business narratives that serve to rationalise them.

This book consists of eleven new essays that provide new insights into classical and contemporary issues surrounding free will and human agency.

Public health is a particular area of medical practice that raises a series of philosophical issues that require urgent discussion.

Following on from Roy Bhaskar's first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, establishes the conception of social science as explanatory-and thence emancipatory-critique.

In order to describe the logic of morality, "e;contractualist"e; philosophers have studied how individuals behave when they choose to follow their moral intuitions.

The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical questions of ontology and epistemology in a unique way, bringing to traditional conceptions the analytic apparatus of modern logic, and the new content and conceptual models of active scientific investigations.

Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature.

A comprehensive treatment of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi.

This book presents new insights into Freud's famous "e;discovery"e; of the unconscious and the subsequent development of psychoanalytic theories.

This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century.

First Published in 2004.

This book presents a collective attempt to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed WWII.

This book explores recent developments in ethics of virtue.

The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlstrom emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptualization and inquiry is irreducibly valuational.

This book is the product of a collaboration stretching the years 2007-10, whose initial fruit was a paper on "e;Plenum Theory"e; published in Nous.

This biography of Charles Darwin, first published in 1937, re-lives Darwin's life year by year, allowing the reader to share his experiences.

This volume contains essays that offer both historical and contemporary views of nature, as seen through a hermeneutic, deconstructive, and phenomenological lens.

Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems.

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate.

This volume reflects the 'philosophy of science in practice' approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research.

This book, first published in 1938, is based on the Muirhead Lectures given at Birmingham University in February and March of 1937.

'HyperReality is a technological capability like nanotechnology, human cloning and artificial intelligence.

First published in 1974.

This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz's thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries.

This book is both dif?

From climate change to species extinction, and habitat loss to soil degradation, a stark awareness of the often devastating impacts of human actions is growing.