Philosophy of science

This book argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer of science.

Philosophy in Reality offers a new vision of the relation between science and philosophy in the framework of a non-propositional logic of real processes, grounded in the physics of the real world.

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective.

Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe.

What kind of stuff is the world made of?

This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics - the grandiose theory that describes nature down to the submicroscopic level - was first formulated in Gottingen in 1925.

Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study.

Comprehensive and in-depth study of this important text, the first book of Aristotle''s foundational treatise on natural philosophy.

More than 300 years ago, Isaac Newton created a mathematical model of the solar system that predicted the existence of a yet unknown planet: Neptune.

'Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history' ScotsmanIn this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct areas of society: the social institutions that promote science, the sensibilities of scientists themselves and the goal of the scientific enterprise.

This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics.

This book traces the development of Kepler's ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil.

Recursive Functions and Metamathematics deals with problems of the completeness and decidability of theories, using as its main tool the theory of recursive functions.

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself.

The Routledge Guidebook to Berkeley's Three Dialogues is an engaging introduction to the last of a trio of works that cemented Berkeley's position as one of the truly great philosophers of the western canon.

These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton's work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time.

This book is based upon the collaborative efforts of the Ontogenetics Process Group (OPG) - an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, multi-national research group that began meeting in 2017 to explore new and innovative ways of thinking the problem of complexity in living, physical, and social systems outside the algorithmic models that have dominated paradigms of complexity to date.

Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on Earth.

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased.

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S.

This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the institutionalization of science teaching and research.

John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of the century's most important theory, quantum mechanics.

This book is a first attempt to unify and explain, through the language of pure mathematics called categories and sheaves, the mechanism of mental activities.

The stated subject of these lecture courses given by Husserlbetween 1910 and 1918is 'reason, the word for the mental activities and accomplishments that govern knowledge, give it form and supply it with norms.

This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences.

This book aims to help research practitioners in technology science avoid some of the most common pitfalls or at least make them easier to overcome.

The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science).

This book offers a comprehensive primer for the study of intensionality.

Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what's so great about science?

Provides a comprehensive exposition of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics and its compatibility with relativity.

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise's conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences.

There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it.

This accessible book presents a new theory of biological functions and connects it to contemporary problems in philosophy and science.

Bioethics: 50 Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments collects 50 cases-both real and imaginary-that have been, or should be, of special interest and importance to philosophical bioethics.

Originally published in 1934.

This accessible and entertaining biography chronicles the life and triumphs of astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who helped lay the foundations of modern astronomy in the 20th century.

If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin?

This book examines the different areas of knowledge, traditions, and conceptual resources that contributed to the building of Max Planck's theory of radiation.

The term 'temporality' often refers to the traditional mode of the way time is: a linear procession of past, present and future.

Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective.

In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy.

Hermann Haken (born 1927) is one of the "e;fathers"e; of the quantum-mechanical laser theory, formulated between 1962 and 1966, in strong competition with American researchers.

A layman's guide to the mechanics of Godel's proof together with a lucid discussion of the issues which it raises.

Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman.

The book's core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence-sometimes called artificial general intelligence (AGI)-is for mathematical reasons impossible.