Philosophy of science

This book examines how evolutionism can justify the existence of ethical normativity.

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

This book offers an alternative perspective on the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind.

This important collection focuses on the nature and importance of biodiversity.

This 1998 collection of essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo''s work.

The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty''s philosophy.

In this 2006 volume, Alexander Pruss examines the substantive philosophical issues raised by the Principle of Sufficient Reason.

This book, first published in 2006, evaluates Kuhn''s most influential ideas using theories developed by cognitive scientists.

This book examines the early modern science of generation, analyzing its influences on contemporary philosophical questions.

This book contains essays by Ernst Mayr, the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century.

This book explores some central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in experimental biology.

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

This 2004 book develops an approach to the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics.

A concise survey of basic probability theory from a thoroughly subjective point of view.

This book uses Darwin''s evolutionary theory to account for language development and change.

This book develops the tools necessary to transform the philosophical study of knowledge into a proper scientific discipline.

Science and Ethics examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science.

Is nature all there is?

This 2004 book focuses on three issues of debate in Darwin''s theory of evolution using a historical and philosophical perspective.

This book explores the nature of development against current trends in biological theory and practice.

Presents the history of space-time physics, from Newton to Einstein, as philosophical and scientific developments.

This biography addresses the full range of Descartes'' interests and traces his intellectual development.

This book examines the foundations of defeasible logic, exploring the properties of everyday reasoning patterns.

Offers an introduction to Churchland''s work, alongside a critique of his most famous philosophical positions.

A fresh and compelling intervention in the very contentious debate over heritability.

This book develops a philosophical framework for understanding a scientific principle''s validation, for philosophers, historians and physicists.

This volume contains essays on the history and philosophy of probability and statistics.

The first in-depth study of the development of philosophy of science during the Cold War.

Naturalistic Hermeneutics, first published in 2005, shows how ''meaningful'' materials can be dealt with using the hypothetico-deductive method.

Denny Borsboom provides an in-depth treatment of the philosophical foundations of widely used measurement models in psychology.

Ron Amundson examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology.

This book presents for the first time a fully developed and workable concept of cultural DNA.

These essays examine the developments in three fundamental biological disciplines - embryology, evolutionary biology, and genetics.

A controversial challenge to current views of evolution, for the general reader.

A 2003 synthesis of scientific, philosophical and religious issues in cosmology.

A short, readable 2003 textbook that is about the philosophical, social and political aspects of biology.

The essays in this volume discuss Putnam''s major philosophical contributions.

An introduction to the life and work of Thomas Kuhn, probably the best-known historian and philosopher of science of the last 25 years.

This collection provides a thoughtful overview of the debate about the status of economic knowledge.

This book sets out conflict resolution strategies to bridge disagreements between logic and mathematics.

This 2003 book focuses on neuropsychiatric models of self-consciousness, set against introductory essays describing the philosophical, historical and psychological approaches.

A radical critique of current attempts to reconcile natural sciences with the concept of divine action.

This 2003 book discusses the relationship between numerical thinking and the human language faculty.

This 2003 book is a full treatment of the comprehensive defense of ''realization physicalism''.

Reviews the conceptual basis of evidence-based medicine and the ethical issues it gives rise to.

This book examines the scientific procedures devised by Ptolemy for investigating the structures underlying musical melody.

A wide-ranging and illuminating account of how our understanding of the world has developed by uncovering ''hidden unities'' in nature.

This book is an interdisciplinary treatment of the evolution of morality and religion, drawing from biology, philosophy and theology.

These essays by a leading philosopher of science present a defence of integrative pluralism.

The essays in this collection explore free logic, an important field of philosophical logic that first appeared in the 1950s.