Philosophy of science

This volume offers perspectives on the theme of surprise crossing philosophical, phenomenological, scientific, psycho-physiology, psychiatric, and linguistic boundaries.

This original volume examines forms and limits of human inquiry from a largely sceptical point of view.

This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg's failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career.

This book aims to provide an overview of several topics in advanced differential geometry and Lie group theory, all of them stemming from mathematical problems in supersymmetric physical theories.

This book presents a collection of novel contributions and reviews by renowned researchers in the foundations of quantum physics, quantum optics, and neutron physics.

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world's leading interdisciplinary ecologists - Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison.

We live in an age where language and screens continue to collide for creative purposes, giving rise to new forms of digital literatures and literary video games.

The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and accidental generalizations (LAG).

This book is a sequel to Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology (Springer 2011).

This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes.

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 book presents in full the work of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana and explains its impacts, which are still being felt.

This book offers a readable introduction to the main aspects of thought experimenting in philosophy and science (together with related imaginative activities in mathematics and linguistics).

This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism's central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.

This thesis uses high-precision single-photon experiments to shed new light on the role of reality, causality, and uncertainty in quantum mechanics.

Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories.

From the author of "e;Celestial Sleuth"e; (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings.

In The Faith of a Seeker, the author draws upon his lifelong search for truth and understanding, trying to face squarely the difficult issues of faith and science and those raised by biblical criticism.

This handbook is a 'one-stop shop' for current information, issues and challenges in the fields of research ethics and scientific integrity.

This book, by an eminent scientist and philosopher, provides strong evidence for the claim that language is a general principle of Nature, rooted exclusively in physical and chemical laws.

This book explores the premise that a physical theory is an interpretation of the analytico-canonical formalism.

This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling "e;dark sides.

This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way.

This book contains a collection of papers devoted to the problems of body, mind and soul in medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420.

This edited collection provides new perspectives on some metaphysical questions arising in quantum mechanics.

This book presents a collection of old and new essays exploring the author's unique contributions to the sociology of science, mathematics, logic, robotics, brain, and god.

This book presents fresh insights into analogue quantum simulation.

This book raises awareness about environmental issues that result from energy production, extraction and conversion, and examines the attitudes people have about these issues.

This book focuses on the unique philosophical relationship between Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein.

Chemistry shapes and creates the disposition of the world's resources and provides novel substances for the welfare and hazard of our civilisation at an exponential rate.

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.

Has anyone ever seen with their own eyes that the Earth goes around the sun?

This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the  European tradition of the twentieth century.

This edited collection casts light on central issues within contemporary philosophy of mathematics such as the realism/anti-realism dispute; the relationship between logic and metaphysics; and the question of whether mathematics is a science of objects or structures.

This book provides unique and comprehensive conceptual explanations of quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics.

This book explores the deep meaning-the nature or essence-of the economy and its fundamental components.

In this book, Matej Kohar demonstrates how the new mechanistic account of explanation can be used to support a non-representationalist view of explanations in cognitive neuroscience, and therefore can bring new conceptual tools to the non-representationalist arsenal.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.

This book addresses the urgent need for a large and systematic analysis of current interdisciplinary (ID) research and practice.

Genius is a fascinating topic.

Science, Technology and Society: An Introduction provides students with an accessible overview of the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

This revised and enhanced new edition of a well-established textbook provides a balanced overview of various areas of theoretical physics based on the use of variational principles.

This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn's work from where he left off at the time of his death.

Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society.

This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century.

What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling?

What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling?