Philosophy of science

Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society.

Seit der griechischen Antike gehört die Frage, was Wissenschaft ist, zu den wichtigsten Fragestellungen der Philosophie.

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century.

This book emphasizes the rising need for people to have a basic understanding of science and technology and the emphatic role they can play in shaping the AI-driven future, especially in terms of creating sustainable societies with growing job opportunities.

The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences.

This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938.

This combination of historiography and theory offers the growing Anglophone readership interested in the ideas of Gilbert Simondon a thorough and unprecedented survey of the French philosopher's entire oeuvre.

Dismissed by some as the last of the anti-Darwinians, his fame as a rigorous biologist even tainted by an alleged link to National Socialist ideology, it is undeniable that Jakob von Uexkull (1864-1944) was eagerly read by many philosophers across the spectrum of philosophical schools, from Scheler to Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze and from Heidegger to Blumenberg and Agamben.

Originally published in 1950, this book challenged the basis of our beliefs about the relation of life to matter.

This book offers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to scientific theories and the evolution of science and mathematics through the centuries.

The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Science presents a practical and up-to-date research resource to the philosophy of science.

Global warming and, even more recently, the COVID pandemic have brought into public focus our dependence on science and the lens with which it considers the world.

The Philosophy of Time Society grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy of Time offered by George Schlesinger in 1991.

In this third installment of his classic 'Foundations' trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics.

This new study provides a refreshing look at the issue of exceptions and shows that much of the problem stems from a failure to recognize at least two kinds of exception-ridden law: ceteris paribus laws and ideal laws.

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

This book presents a collection of essays that explore the life and works of Tatjana Afanassjewa (1876-1964), a Russian-Dutch physicist-mathematician.

Originally published in 1937.

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.

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

Dictionary of Critical Realism fulfils a vital gap in the literature, Critical Realism is often criticised for being too opaque and deploying too much jargon, thereby making the concepts inaccessible for a wider audience.

Contemporary Materialism brings together the best recent work on materialism from many of our leading contemporary philosophers.

Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century and provide a new work that would be of value to both systems and philosophy.

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries.

Im vorliegenden Buch entwickelt Marc Dusseldorp eine gänzlich neue Perspektive auf das Problem des Umgangs mit Zielkonflikten der Nachhaltigkeit.

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biologyThis is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject.

This work introduces the reader to the central issues and theories in western environmental ethics, and against this background develops a Buddhist environmental philosophy and code of ethics.

Traditional sources of morality-philosophical ethics, religious standards, and cultural values-are being questioned at a time when we most need morality's direction.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural?

In reviewing and reconsidering the intellectual history of scientism and antiscientism, the authors assess the process of reasoning and prejudices of these contrasting viewpoints, while discussing the repercussions of scientific hegemony and its contemporary criticism.

This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.

This Element covers a great number of philosophical issues regarding special relativity in a pedagogical and highly non-partisan way.

This book charts the development of nanotechnology in relation to society from the early years of the twenty-first century.

Drawing on research in plant science, systems ecology, environmental philosophy, and cultural anthropology, Andrew F.

History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life's paradoxes.

How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences?

We are still looking for a satisfactory definition of what makes an individual being a human individual.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the connection between processes of neoliberalization and the advancement and transformation of technoscience.

Since the end of the Cold War, the human face of economics has gained renewed visibility and generated new conversations among economists and other social theorists.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between digital technology and healthcare delivery, emphasising sustainable innovation in health services.

Pillars of Evolution provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution.

This collection responds to widespread, complex, and current environmental challenges by presenting eleven original essays on a new elemental-embodied approach in environmental humanities.

This is a thorough, very readable and excellently illustrated biography of Willem de Sitter (1872-1934), one of the most influential astronomers of his time, and also a co-author and correspondent of Einstein.

Mauro Dorato charts pressing debates within the philosophy of science that centre around scientific expertise, access to knowledge, consensus, debate, and decision-making.

Radek Kundt compares the notion of evolution in cultural evolutionary theories with neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to determine the value of the biological concept for studying culture.

Prefatory Explanation It must be remarked at once that I am 'editor' of this volume only in that I had the honor of presiding at the symposium on Spinoza and the Sciences at which a number of these papers were presented (exceptions are those by Hans Jonas, Richard Popkin, Joe VanZandt and our four European contributors), in that I have given some editorial advice on details of some of the papers, including translations, and finally, in that my name appears on the cover.

This volume defends a novel approach to the philosophy of physics: it is the first book devoted to a comparative study of probability, causality, and propensity, and their various interrelations, within the context of contemporary physics -- particularly quantum and statistical physics.