Philosophy of science

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.

The book provides a novel account of laws of nature via dispositions.

Published in 1934, this monograph was one of the first introductory accounts of the principles which form the physical basis of the Quantum Theory, considered as a branch of mathematics.

An inter-disciplinary perspective on the role of simplicity in modelling and inference, first published in 2002.

How is that when scientists need some piece of mathematics through which to frame their theory, it is there to hand?

Using an integrated philosophical and historical approach, this book explores the fundamental shift in understandings of space in the scientific revolution.

A philosophical perspective to statistical mechanics for graduate students and researchers in the foundations and philosophy of physics.

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works.

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

This highly readable book is a collection of critical papers on Otto Neurath (1882-1945).

Presents the observations that helped establish our theories of the cosmos, from a unique and engaging perspective.

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

The Theoretical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics addresses fundamental issues that are not discussed in most books on quantum mechanics.

This 2004 book traces the history of evolutionary thought, and challenges many long-established assumptions.

Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests.

This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies.

Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data.

In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world.

If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world?

This volume offers a fundamentally different way of conceptualizing time and reality.

First published in 1937, The Philosophy of Relativity contains an exposition of Einstein, a step-by step deduction of the main equations of both the special and general theories of relativity.

Published in 1934, this monograph was one of the first introductory accounts of the principles which form the physical basis of the Quantum Theory, considered as a branch of mathematics.

Hacking explores how mathematics became possible for the human race, and how it ensured our status as the dominant species.

An exploration of key concepts in the study of animal communication, covering case studies as well as more theoretical issues.

Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge.

This book is primarily about the methodological questions involved in attempts to understand two of the most peculiar phenomena in physics, both occurring at the lowest of temperatures.

To construct a comprehensive theory of information, meaning and intentionality, the book develops a naturalistic perspective based on Peircean biosemiotics.

Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and meaningful research.

The Nature of Science in Science Education is the first book to blend a justification for the inclusion of the history and philosophy of science in science teaching with methods by which this vital content can be shared with a variety of learners.

That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted.

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This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history.

At the turn of the first millennium, scientific and philosophical knowledge was far from dormant.

This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics.

This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle.

The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant.

Neoliberalism is a doctrine that adopts a free market policy in a deregulated political framework.

In this accessible analysis, a philosopher and a science educator look at biological theory and society through a synthesis of mechanistic and organicist points of view to best understand the complexity of life and biological systems.

This collection explores the arguments related to veg(etari)anism as they play out in the public sphere and across media, historical eras, and geographical areas.

Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research.

This book offers a unique perspective on one of the deepest questions about the world we live in: is reality multi-leveled, or can everything be reduced to some fundamental 'flat' level?

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This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry-and how the 'bandits' fight back.

This book addresses the morality of engaging in weapons research, a topic that has been neglected but which is extremely important.