Philosophy of science

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.

Writing with characteristic bracing intelligence and clarity, Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance.

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.

Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act.

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.

This book provides keys to decrypt current political debates on the environment in light of the theories that support them, and provides tools to better understand and manage environmental conflicts and promote environmentally friendly behaviour.

This book reconnects health and thought, as the two were treated together in the seventeenth century, and by reuniting them, it adds a significant dimension to our historical understanding.

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert.

What is the role of scientists in society?

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.

Quantum theory is widely regarded as one of the most successful theories in the history of science.

Introduces the topic of limited and changing awareness to those interested in the philosophy of decision-making and uncertain reasoning.

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the lighting.

This book presents contributions from an internal symposium organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Specola Vaticana, or Vatican Observatory, in the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

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

Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the difference between active and passive movement could be explained by the presence or absence of an intention in the mind of the agent.

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism.

Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy.

This edited volume explores the interplay between philosophies in a wide-ranging analysis of how technological applications in science inform our systems of thought.

Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris.

Popper's theory of science has been widely misunderstood and poorly represented in the literature on philosophy of science, over the last three decades.

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

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology.

First published in 1987.

Originally published in English in 1973.

This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings.