Philosophy of science

This book examines taxonomic practices in cognitive science and uncovers crosscutting relationships among categories in psychology and neuroscience.

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world.

Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was one of the principal philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment.

The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality.

This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences.

'Gravity, a Geometrical Course' presents general relativity (GR) in a systematic and exhaustive way, covering three aspects that are homogenized into a single texture: i) the mathematical, geometrical foundations, exposed in a self consistent contemporary formalism, ii) the main physical, astrophysical and cosmological applications, updated to the issues of contemporary research and observations, with glimpses on supergravity and superstring theory, iii) the historical development of scientific ideas underlying both the birth of general relativity and its subsequent evolution.

This book is designed to make accessible to nonspecialists the still evolving concepts of quantum mechanics and the terminology in which these are expressed.

With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged.

The Handbook of Bioethical Decisions Volume II addresses and analyzes the most important ethical concerns and moral quandaries related to scientific integrity and institutional ethics.

Over the past decade a strident public debate has arisen about the nature and origin of religions.

Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality.

Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory.

A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.

This book explains and justifies efficient general methods of making decisions and will guide practical efforts to streamline rational choice.

To construct a comprehensive theory of information, meaning and intentionality, the book develops a naturalistic perspective based on Peircean biosemiotics.

This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health.

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "e;moral brain"e; became a serious endeavour.

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Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science.

An introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism, first published in 1983.

Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a "re-enchantment" of the world that faces the modern condition squarely, without nostalgia.

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger''s What is Life?

In this Introduction we shall sketch a profile of our field of inquiry.

This collection of essays is intended as a tribute to Josef Maria Jauch on his sixtieth birthd~.

Technology and animals often serve as the boundaries by which we define the human.

The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer- tain positions in the philosophy of education.

The first comprehensive account of the concept and practices of deduction covering philosophy, history, cognition and mathematical practice.

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay.

Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science.

This book uses Darwin''s evolutionary theory to account for language development and change.

The intersection between morality and emotion is not always easily discernible.

How should we reason in science?

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) believed that a reductionist conception of the mechanical philosophy threatened the heuristic power and autonomy of chemistry as an experimental science.

Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience?

Coping with the complexities of the social world in the 21st century requires deeper quantitative and predictive understanding.

This book addresses the morality of engaging in weapons research, a topic that has been neglected but which is extremely important.

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This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science.

In May of 1973 we organized an international research colloquium on foundations of probability, statistics, and statistical theories of science at the University of Western Ontario.

While Francis Bacon continues to be considered the 'father' of modern experimental science, his writings are no longer given close attention by most historians and philosophers of science, let alone by scientists themselves.

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This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and considers the relevance of these issues for the humanities, including questions of autonomy and authorship, and notions of ethical and juridical responsibility in the context of a changing understanding of subjectivity.

In this invaluable book, Tim Lewens shows in a clear and accessible manner how important Darwin is for philosophy and how his work has shaped and challenged the very nature of the subject.

What is this thing called Philosophy?

This Brief presents an historical investigation into the reaction between ferric ions and thiocyanate ions, which has been viewed in different ways throughout the last two centuries.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.