Philosophy of science

Approaching the settlement of our Moon from a practical perspective, this book is well suited for space program planners.

Evolution--or the broader topic of origins--has enormous relevance to how we understand the Christian faith and how we interpret Scripture.

The science fiction genre maintains a remarkable hold on the imagination and enthusiasm of the filmgoing public, captivating large audiences worldwide and garnering ever-larger profits.

This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism.

This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects.

This book assesses the origin of asteroids by analyzing the discovery of Vesta in 1807.

This book discusses a link between statistical theory and quantum theory based on the concept of epistemic processes.

This book is a historical analysis of the quantum mechanical revolution and the emergence of a new discipline from the perspective, not of a professor, but of a recent or actual Ph.

This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge.

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems.

This is a second edition of a textbook that provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic worlds.

A major synthesis of homology, written by a top researcher in the fieldHomology-a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's wing-is one of the most fundamental yet challenging concepts in evolutionary biology.

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "e;final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution"e; by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness.

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The author of The Long Descent examines a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression.

The author of The Long Descent examines a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression.

A new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his "e;graceful prose"e; (Publishers Weekly).

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: An Introduction is structured around six questions and the answers to them that have been offered by feminist epistemologists and philosophers of science.

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: An Introduction is structured around six questions and the answers to them that have been offered by feminist epistemologists and philosophers of science.

This book presents a philosophical interpretation to numerical cognition based on dual process theories and heuristics.

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at that point to rise above the eastern horizon.

This book presents a new way to understand human-animal interactions.

This book exposes significant threats to research integrity and identifies policies and practices that can reverse these trends.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology.

This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism.

Reviving the Living: Meaning Making in Living Systems presents a novel perspective that relates to current biological knowledge and issues.

For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true.

What do philosophy and computer science have in common?

This book examines the intricate web linking water science and society using diverse philosophical lenses.

This book examines the intricate web linking water science and society using diverse philosophical lenses.

This book is the translated and commented autobiography of Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1909.

This book exposes significant threats to research integrity and identifies policies and practices that can reverse these trends.

This book argues that philosophy is as practical as plumbing and what we need right now is what philosophers can offer as philosophers to help us all, our species, and beyond, through this ecological emergency, this climate change, this anthropocene.

This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives.

This interdisciplinary book ties the historical work of Descartes to his successors through current research and critical overviews on the neuroscience of consciousness, the brain, and cognition.

This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist.

This book is devoted to the welfare of invertebrates, which make up 99% of animal species on earth.

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

This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective.

This book offers fresh perspective on the role of phenomenology in the philosophy of physics which opens new avenues for discussion among physicists, "e;standard"e; philosophers of physics and philosophers with phenomenological leanings.

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

This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics,mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emergingof 19th century.

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.

Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields.

This integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy explains one of the most significant developments in the early modern period.

This book is a collection of stories, reflections and advice written by proficient scientists.

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