Philosophy of science

Philippe Rochat's FINITUDE is a rumination on time and self-consciousness.

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

This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural?

Our previous book, About Life, concerned modern biology.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

How ought we to live with new technologies?

Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1 was wondering, asa student physicist, about the relations of physics to philosophy and to the world in turmoil.

Originally published in 1987.

This novel book introduces cellular automata from a rigorous nonlinear dynamics perspective.

"José Gaos escribió una filosofía de la técnica que, a pesar de su importancia, ha sido poco reconocida y casi nada estudiada.

Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time.

This book presents quantum theory as a theory based on new relationships among matter, thought, and experimental technology, as against those previously found in physics, relationships that also redefine those between mathematics and physics in quantum theory.

Defends Kuhn''s evolutionary social epistemology and examines new directions in Kuhn''s view on social constructionism and the sociology of science.

The Hill-Brown theory of the Moon's motion was constructed in the years from 1877 to 1908, and adopted as the basis for the lunar ephemerides in the nautical almanacs of the US, UK, Germany, France, and Spain beginning in 1923.

The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time.

This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head.

Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Frau und Wissenschaft" verfügbar.

By asking how well theological views of human nature stand up to the discoveries of modern science, Alan Olding re-opens the question of whether the "e;design"e; argument for the existence of God is fatally undermined.

This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership.

Originally published in 1991.

In Real History, Martin Bunzl brilliantly succeeds in bringing together two schools of thought at the forefront of the philosophy of history: that of realism and objectivity.

Ten years after the Human Genome Project's completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation.

Explore the computational possibilities unleashed by modern physics.

'The originality of this book is that it reverses the tables on all current schools of philosophy, where philosophy and metaphysics are separated and isolated from the sciences.

An extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections between these strands which reveal the fabric of realityin which human actions and ideas play essential roles.

This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science.

The question of the symbolic structure of physics is implicitly involved in any discussion about the character of physical knowledge and the development of physical theories.

Originally published in 1961.

Edmund Husserl, founder of the phenomenological movement, is usually read as an idealist in his metaphysics and an instrumentalist in his philosophy of science.

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science.

Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

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A fascinating account of how organisms are able to live in, or survive, extreme conditions.

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always.

This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi.

Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy.

Rationalität ist der vordringlichste Anspruch, der vor allem in der Wissenschaft an den denkenden und handelnden Menschen gestellt wird.

The main intention of this book is to bring together contributions from biology, cognitive science, and the humanities for a joint exploration of some of the main contemporary notions dealing with the understanding of origins in life,mind and society.

Species Problems and Beyond offers a collection of up-to-date essays discussing from an interdisciplinary perspective the many ramifications of the 'Species Problem.

In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices not as a block but through their divergence from each other.

Our understanding of nature, and in particular of physics and the laws governing it, has changed radically since the days of the ancient Greek natural philosophers.

This volume defends a novel approach to the philosophy of physics: it is the first book devoted to a comparative study of probability, causality, and propensity, and their various interrelations, within the context of contemporary physics -- particularly quantum and statistical physics.

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.

This book presents a perspective on the history of theoretical physics over the past two hundreds years.

One of the central areas of concern in late twentieth-century philosophy is the debate between Realism and anti-Realism.

Albert Einstein, one of the most prolific scientists of the twentieth century, developed the theory of relativity which was crucial for the advancement of modern physics.