Philosophy of science

Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "e;many worlds"e; theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy.

Metaphysics and Science brings together important new work within an emerging philosophical discipline: the metaphysics of science.

Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics is a conceptual analysis of one the most prominent and exciting new areas of physics, providing the first full-length philosophical treatment of quantum information theory and the questions it raises for our understanding of the quantum world.

Synaesthesia is, in the words of the cognitive neuroscientist Cytowic, a strange sensory blending.

Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P.

What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series?

In recent years philosophers of science have urged that many scientific theories are extremely useful and successful despite being internally inconsistent.

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?

Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the physics and metaphysics of chance and time.

Causation is at once familiar and mysterious.

How should we reason in science?

Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day.

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things?

Is it possible to explain and predict the development of living things?

The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence.

Not everything is black and white.

Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations.

Hans Christian orsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time.

Hans Christian orsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time.

Scientific Metaphysics collects original essays by some of the world's leading philosophers of science on the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalized--that is, conducted as a part of natural science.

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always.

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always.

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world.

Gualtiero Piccinini articulates and defends a mechanistic account of concrete, or physical, computation.

Paul Horwich develops an interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later writings that differs in substantial respects from what can already be found in the literature.

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932.

The 'Adaptive Landscape' has been a central concept in population genetics and evolutionary biology since this powerful metaphor was first formulated by Sewall Wright in 1932.

The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory.

The claim that contemporary analytic philosophers rely extensively on intuitions as evidence is almost universally accepted in current meta-philosophical debates and it figures prominently in our self-understanding as analytic philosophers.

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

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

John Dupre explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society.

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy.

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy.

Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory.

This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf--one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings.

The search for a quantum theory of the gravitational field is one of the great open problems in theoretical physics.

The search for a quantum theory of the gravitational field is one of the great open problems in theoretical physics.

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Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades.

In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'.

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined.

Is mathematics a highly sophisticated intellectual game in which the adepts display their skill by tackling invented problems, or are mathematicians engaged in acts of discovery as they explore an independent realm of mathematical reality?

Is mathematics a highly sophisticated intellectual game in which the adepts display their skill by tackling invented problems, or are mathematicians engaged in acts of discovery as they explore an independent realm of mathematical reality?

Special relativity provides the foundations of our knowledge of space and time.

This third edition, now available in paperback, is a follow up to the author's classic Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs in Set Theory,.

Relationalism about space is a venerable doctrine that is enjoying renewed attention among philosophers and physicists.

Many results of modern physics--those of quantum mechanics, for instance--come in a probabilistic guise.

Isaac Newton's Scientific Method examines Newton's argument for universal gravity and his application of it to resolve the problem of deciding between geocentric and heliocentric world systems by measuring masses of the sun and planets.

Traditionally, philosophers of quantum mechanics have addressed exceedingly simple systems: a pair of electrons in an entangled state, or an atom and a cat in Dr.