Philosophy of science

This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching metaphysical and epistemological consequences for Hume's philosophy.

This book explores indigenous sub-Saharan African agrarian thought.

Bioethics: 50 Puzzles, Problems, and Thought Experiments collects 50 cases-both real and imaginary-that have been, or should be, of special interest and importance to philosophical bioethics.

This book explores indigenous sub-Saharan African agrarian thought.

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood.

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood.

This book explores Rene Descartes's attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program.

This book explores Rene Descartes's attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program.

Critical Realism and the Objective Value of Sustainability contributes to the growing discussion surrounding the concept of sustainability, using a critical realist approach within a transdisciplinary theoretical framework to examine how sustainability objectively occurs in the natural world and in society.

Critical Realism and the Objective Value of Sustainability contributes to the growing discussion surrounding the concept of sustainability, using a critical realist approach within a transdisciplinary theoretical framework to examine how sustainability objectively occurs in the natural world and in society.

What, exactly, is leadership?

What, exactly, is leadership?

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science contains sixteen original essays by leading authors in the philosophy of science, each one defending the affirmative or negative answer to one of eight specific questions, including: Are there laws of social science?

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood.

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood.

A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality?

This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals.

This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals.

David Hume is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher to have written in the English language.

This book explores the meaning and import of neurophenomenology and the philosophy of enactive or embodied cognition for psychology.

We Have Never Been Human: Or Why We Have Always Been Something Else boldly reimagines what it means to be human, challenging the traditional notions that bind our identity to biology and culture.

This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology.

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theorising.

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theorising.

This volume brings together philosophers and physicists to explore the parallels between Quantum Bayesianism, or QBism, and the phenomenological tradition.

This book departs from existing accounts of Alan Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical, social, and cultural context.

This book provides a comprehensive investigation into the concept of typicality and its significance for physics and the philosophy of science.

What one can know depends on one's evidence.

God and the Book of Nature develops theological views of the natural sciences in light of the recent theological turn in science-and-religion scholarship and the 'science-engaged theology' movement.

This book provides a comprehensive investigation into the concept of typicality and its significance for physics and the philosophy of science.

This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period.

This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective.