Philosophy of science

Philosophy of Medicine asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we think of it?

Most of us believe everything happens for a reason.

Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot time talking about race: race relations, racial violence, discrimination based on race, racial integration, racial progress.

Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot time talking about race: race relations, racial violence, discrimination based on race, racial integration, racial progress.

Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly.

Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and care for our elderly.

The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree.

The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree.

The philosophy of chemistry has emerged in recent years as a new and autonomous field within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition.

What are individuals?

Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature.

Making Sense of the World offers original work on the nature of understanding by a range of distinguished philosophers.

Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics.

Science is the most reliable means available for understanding the world around us and our place in it.

Science is the most reliable means available for understanding the world around us and our place in it.

Near-death experiences offer a glimpse not only into the nature of death but also into the meaning of life.

Near-death experiences offer a glimpse not only into the nature of death but also into the meaning of life.

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

Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves?

Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault.

The essays in this volume address three fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: What is required for some fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis?

Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent--we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance--but do the imperfections extend down to the level of our genes?

The biological and social sciences often generalize causal conclusions from one context or location to others that may differ in some relevant respects, as is illustrated by inferences from animal models to humans or from a pilot study to a broader population.

The global reality of suffering and death has always demanded an authentic theological response and impelled debate concerning Gods relationship to suffering, as well as the conceivability of the suffering of God.

While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life.

Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to assume that the world of nature can be reduced to basic physics.

Oracles of Science examines the popular writings of the six scientists who have been the most influential in shaping our perception of science, how it works, and how it relates to other fields of human endeavor, especially religion.

Modern science is big business.

What do we see?

It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free.

When ordinary people--mathematicians among them--take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason.

Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene have aroused fierce controversy by arguing for the powerful influence of genes on human behavior.

This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C.

In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science.

This book explains the role of simple biological model systems in the growth of molecular biology.

Do a little armchair space travel, rub elbows with alien life forms, and stretch your mind to the furthest corners of our uncharted universe.

Universally recognized as bringing about a revolutionary transformation of the notions of space, time, and motion in physics, Einstein's theory of gravitation, known as "e;general relativity,"e; was also a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science.

This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences of complexity, and a few workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the wider implications of complexity studies.

Mathematics and logic have been central topics of concern since the dawn of philosophy.

Classical physics states that physical reality is local--a point in space cannot influence another point beyond a relatively short distance.

As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science.

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today.

This intellectual biography of Immanuel Kant's early years-- from 1746 when he wrote his first book, to 1766 when he lost his faith in metaphysics --makes an outstanding contribution to Kant scholarship.

Ever since Newton created dynamics, there has been controversy about its foundations.

During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest.

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Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data.

An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public.

Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development.

Eminent Harvard astrophysicist David Layzer offers readers a unified theory of natural order and its origins, from the permanence, stability, and orderliness of sub-atomic particles to the evolution of the human mind.