Philosophy of science

Darwin has long been hailed as forefather to behavioural science, especially nowadays, with the growing popularity of evolutionary psychologies.

This book introduces a refreshing approach to twenty-first-century scientific approach in an age, which is also known as the Century of Complexity.

Explores the significance of the Anthropocene for environmental politics, analysing political concepts in view of contemporary environmental challenges.

A Reference Book of English Words and Phrases for Foreign Science Students is a reference book of English words and phrases for foreign students, to be used as an aid when reading books on science, making notes, or when describing experiments.

The philosophy of science proposes criteria to delineate true science and a theory to explain its progress.

Today, only a few people outside of the scientific community are conversant with the tradition of science and its many breakthroughs.

This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low.

This book presents an elaborated argument for why functionalism, as well as other dematerialized and disembodied theories of mind, can't be right.

This book examines the ways in which attitudes toward astronomy in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and Uzbekistan have changed with the times.

The scriptures of the Faiths use models to depict what God is like; namely Father, Mother, Husband, Judge, Lover, Friend, shepherd and so on.

The Big Bang is a myth, says Paul Brockelman in this fascinating look at the spiritual side of modern cosmology.

Sensationalism and Scientific Explanation is a critical examination of the view that scientific statements can be understood only in terms of basic 'atoms' of experience, also called 'sensations'.

This book describes the picture of reality given by Newton, and the development of the later picture of reality given by field theory.

This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher's system of pragmatic idealism.

This book offers a step-by-step introduction to an integrated theory of physical and biological evolution, from the early universe to the world we know today.

This influential book offers a probabilistic approach to scientific reasoning to resolve central issues in the philosophy of science.

Provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, covering such issues as religion, race and gender.

From one of America's best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows ';why, in light of our origins, humans are still special' (Edward J.

Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern.

Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contribution to economics.

This book is an easy to read, yet comprehensive introduction to practical issues in research ethics and scientific integrity.

'Fascinating, absorbing and educative' A.

Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices.

The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age.

Should transhuman and posthuman persons ever be brought into existence?

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map.

Responding to a need for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the consequences of climate change, this book brings experts in climate science, engineering, urban planning, and conservation biology into conversation with scholars in law, geography, anthropology and ethics.

Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) lived through the best of times and worst of times, through the renewal of scientific optimism and humane politics, and through the massive social collapse into idolatrous barbarism.

Science aims at the discovery of general principles of special kinds that are applicable for the explanation and prediction of the phenomena of the world in the form of theories and laws.

With contributions from two of the original discoverers of protective measurement, this book investigates its broad applications and deep implications.

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 introduces readers to the topic of explanation.

This book presents current understanding of quantum mechanics, providing a historical introduction and discussing many of its interpretations.

In recent decades, issues that reside at the center of philosophical and psychological inquiry have been absorbed into a scientific framework variously identified as "e;brain science,"e; "e;cognitive science,"e; and "e;cognitive neuroscience.

Das vorliegende Buch gewährt Einblicke und Ausblicke in unterschiedliche Disziplinen der Wissenschaft und die mit ihnen einhergehenden ethischen Probleme und Fragestellungen.

"e;New Visions of Nature"e; focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains.

The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center.

This book explores the promissory discourses and practices associated with the bioeconomy, focusing especially on the transformation of institutions; the creation, appropriation, and distribution of value; the struggle over resources, power, and meaning; and the role of altruism, kinship, and care practices.

In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the most luminous Jewish intellectual since Talmudic times.

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe.

Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally.

This book offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, pluralism, materialism, and incommensurability.