Philosophy of science

This book redevelops an important movement in philosophy for the first time, exploring the ways in which three of the greatest thinkers are connected.

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.

The philosophy of computer science is concerned with issues that arise from reflection upon the nature and practice of the discipline of computer science.

This Element aims to rejuvenate natural teleology and persuade you that much of the world''s activity is inherently goal-directed.

The idea of the present volume emerged in 2002 from a series of talks by Frank Stephan in 2002, and John Case in 2003, on developments of algorithmic learning theory.

This book provides a new all-round perspective on the life and work of Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) as a philosopher, historian, and sociologist.

THIS ESSAY was begun a long time ago, in 1962, when I spent a year in Rome on a Guggenheim Fellowship.

This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history.

In this collection I present 16 of my, I feel, more substantial papers on theoretical philosophy, 12 as originally published, one co-authored with Ulrike Haas-Spohn (Chapter14), one (Chapter 15) that was a brief conference commentary, but is in fact a suitable appendix to Chapter 14, one as a translation of a German paper (Chapter 12), and one newly written for this volume (Chapter 16), which, however, is only my recent attempt to properly and completely express an argument I had given in two earlier papers.

Originally published in 1963.

In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers.

In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have dramatically remade the essential conditions for life itself.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

Evolutionary approaches to the study of human beings have been able to explain the origin and maintenance of many of the features of our bodies.

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought.

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How can we teach machine learning to identify causal patterns in data?

TIus is the second, and fmal, volume to derive from the exciting Kronberg conference of 1975, and to show the intelligent editorial care of Gerard Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson that was so evident in the first book, Progress and Rationality in Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol.

This book examines how major interpretations of quantum theory are progressing toward a more unified understanding and experience of nature.

The birth of a completely new branch of observational astronomy is a rare and exciting occurrence.

This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein.

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump.

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline-and how to save itPsychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us?

This intellectual biography surveys Leibniz''ss interests and offers a portrait of a unique thinker, identifying the master project that inspired his huge range of endeavors.

The harmful side of even relatively benign technology is plain to see, but is hardly ever discussed.

Originally published in 1979.

In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology.

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Some philosophers think physical explanations stand on their own: what happens, happens because things have the properties they do.

A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals.

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Science is intimately shaped by social and political values.

This book brings together scholars from ethics and philosophy of science in order to identify ways in which insights gleaned from one subfield can shed light on the other.

Arguing for the compatibility of phenomenology and naturalism, this book also refashions each.

The Theory of the Top.

The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology?

A concise and accessible introduction to the concept of species, exploring its historical, biological and philosophical uses.

Metaphysics and science have a long but troubled relationship.

Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account is the first book-length treatment of philosophical issues and implications in current cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Galileo and Newton's work towards the mathematisation of the physical world; Leibniz's universal logical calculus; the Enlightenment's mathematique sociale.

This book explores the interconnections between world politics and non-human nature to overcome the anthropocentric boundaries that characterize the field of international relations.

The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications.

This book discusses the physical and mathematical foundations of modern quantum mechanics and three realistic quantum theories that John Stuart Bell called "e;theories without observers"e; because they do not merely speak about measurements but develop an objective picture of the physical world.

Soul, Psyche, Brain is a collection of essays that address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature.

This book is offers a broad, comparative survey of a booming field within the history of science: the history, generation, use, and function of images in scientific practice.