Philosophy of science

Examines the implications of evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology for some of the most important philosophical questions.

This book examines Aristotle''s use of the theory of natural teleology in producing explanations of natural phenomena.

Containing interviews with astronomers, geologists, biologists, and writers, this book will fascinate anyone who has ever wondered ''Are we alone?

Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture.

Richards surveys the history of thinking about species to understand the origin of the problem, and provides an innovative solution.

Presents a summary of current research on the philosophical issues inherent in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics.

Leading historians explore the complex and contingent histories of religious engagements with science, and challenge the famous ''conflict thesis''.

Raises questions about the future shape of Evolutionary Developmental biology as it matures as a field.

Introduces a broad range of scientific and philosophical issues about life through the original historical and contemporary sources.

Explores the nature of error and inference, drawing on exchanges on experimental reasoning, reliability, and the objectivity of science.

This book argues against the assumption that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously.

This book addresses the most important developments and debates in this exciting area of research for historians, philosophers of science and physicists.

Leading historians explore the complex and contingent histories of religious engagements with science, and challenge the famous ''conflict thesis''.

Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion.

Explores the nature of error and inference, drawing on exchanges on experimental reasoning, reliability, and the objectivity of science.

This book discusses the philosophical work of Decio Krause.

Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book gives an insight into science''s place in society.

Philosophers, historians, ethicists, and theologians provide the perspectives of their fields on astrobiology for graduate students and researchers.

This book emphasizes the difference between religion and science as means for understanding causal relationships.

This book argues against the assumption that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously.

Offers a deep and innovative understanding of our ways of thinking about heredity.

Raises questions about the future shape of Evolutionary Developmental biology as it matures as a field.

Jacob Klapwijk offers the theory of emergent evolution as a way of bridging the gap between creationism and evolutionary science.

This book examines central topics in philosophy of biology and challenges much of the current thinking.

Pope argues that knowledge of evolution, properly interpreted, is compatible with Christian faith and morality.

This book places Carnap''s central ideas in a broad cultural, political and intellectual context.

Andrew Janiak presents Newton as an original and sophisticated contributor to natural philosophy.

This account of predictivism has considerable consequences for the realist/anti-realist debate.

Elliott Sober explores how the concept of evidence applies to creationism, natural selection and common ancestry.

This book clearly introduces the major topics in logic and their relation to current philosophical issues.

An account and technical assessment of Marx''s economic analysis in Capital and other documents.

The thesis of this book is that chance is an integral part of God''s creation.

This book examines some of the problems facing the study of culture.

In Mathematical Thought and its Objects, Charles Parsons examines the notion of object.

Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations of environmentalism in this comprehensively revised second edition.

A vision of how realism can provide a consistent and coherent account of scientific knowledge.

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

Murphy addresses human uniqueness, religious experience, and personal identity before and after bodily resurrection.

This work aims to treat Adam Smith''s two great works as a seamless whole.

This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy.

Lorenzo Magnani argues that existing moral constructs often cannot be applied to new technology.

In this 2005 book, logic, mathematical knowledge and objects are explored alongside reason and intuition in the exact sciences.

This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

In this book, Derek Turner relates the scientific realism debate to the study of prehistory.

Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality.

This text offers an insight into the development of scientific philosophy and the role of the philosopher.

This 2007 book proposes answers to questions central to the philosophy of science by building on classical solutions.

The social, ethical and legal implications of discoveries in the neurosciences.

This book, first published in 2004, provides a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins.

This book summarizes the philosophy of discovery and elaborates the role that mechanisms play in biological discovery.