Philosophy of science

In einer quellenbasierten Studie gibt die Wissenschaftshistorikerin und Physikerin An Rettig einen lebendigen Einblick in das Streben von Heisenberg und Pauli nach einer einheitlichen Quantenfeldtheorie – von den Anfängen am Rande der Solvay-Konferenz 1927 bis zur Veröffentlichung eines gemeinsamen Ansatzes und Paulis Tod 1958.

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects.

Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum.

Quantum theory launched a revolution in physics.

Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date volume on the conceptual and philosophical problems related to the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

This "e;fantastic revisionist history .

Science and religious faith are two of the most important and influential forces in human life, yet there is widespread confusion about how, or indeed whether, they link together.

This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences.

This book fills a major gap in the philosophy of biology by examining central philosophical issues in microbiology.

Offers an introduction to Churchland''s work, alongside a critique of his most famous philosophical positions.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?

What one can know depends on one's evidence.

This volume is the first book-length study of disguised forms of plagiarism that mar the body of published research in humanities disciplines.

The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers.

Inside you lies a precise scientific instrument - the ability to observe Nature and recall past experiences.

For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another.

This book offers a detailed and fascinating picture of the astonishing astronomical knowledge on which the Roman calendar, traditionally attributed to the king Numa Pompilius (reign 715-673 B.

There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a scientific theory?

This volume of the Boston Studies is a distillation of one of the most creative and important movements in contemporary social theory.

This interdisciplinary volume collects contributions from experts in their respective fields with as common theme diagrams.

The first volume to integrate life''s biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.

Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the environment to the attention of the general public.

A fresh and compelling intervention in the very contentious debate over heritability.

This book investigates how collaborative scientific practice yields scientific knowledge.

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality - bridging physiological experience and consciousness.

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.

In this 2005 book, logic, mathematical knowledge and objects are explored alongside reason and intuition in the exact sciences.

Wie und weshalb wurde aus dem eigentlich politikfernen theoretischen Physiker Andrej Sacharow (1921–1989), allgemein anerkannter Vater der sowjetischen Wasserstoffbombe, ein Vorkämpfer für Menschenrechte und der erste Friedensnobelpreisträger Russlands?

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

Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection challenges our very sense of belonging in the world.

The social, ethical and legal implications of discoveries in the neurosciences.

To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social.

Are science and technology independent of one another?

Genius is a fascinating topic.

First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpoint of a realistic philosophy of science.

This remarkable book is a unique insight into the people involved in the development of the Salyut space station and the crews assigned to operate it.

This volume arose out of a symposium on Thomas Kuhn''s work, with Karl Popper in the chair.

This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression "e;teaching and learning contexts"e; refers.

In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time.

Public health is a particular area of medical practice that raises a series of philosophical issues that require urgent discussion.

Scientific realism is a central, long-standing, and hotly debated topic in philosophy of science.

At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science.

This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.

In this challenging and provocative book, Steve Fuller contends that our continuing faith in science in the face of its actual history is best understood as the secular residue of a religiously inspired belief in divine providence.