Philosophy of science

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?

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "e;existential risks.

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "e;existential risks.

The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy is an outstanding reference source for the wide range of philosophical contributions made by women writing in Europe from about 1560 to 1780.

The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy is an outstanding reference source for the wide range of philosophical contributions made by women writing in Europe from about 1560 to 1780.

As the demand for organs continues to outstrip availability and waiting lists surge, the pressure to make morally questionable, unethical decisions becomes more likely and trust in transplant medicine starts to erode.

In Genomics with Care Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, statistics, and ethics.

This book sheds light on Kant''s claim that the Critique of Pure Reason is a ''treatise'' or ''doctrine'' of method.

This volume contains eighteen papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics.

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H.

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H.

This book proposes a bold idea.

Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two.

Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two.

As the demand for organs continues to outstrip availability and waiting lists surge, the pressure to make morally questionable, unethical decisions becomes more likely and trust in transplant medicine starts to erode.

Las tecnologías son parte fundamental de la vida en sociedad y de nuestra identidad como individuos.

In The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects, David B.

This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics.

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: melanges offerts a Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019).

This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present.

This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present.

This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics.

This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present.

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: melanges offerts a Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019).

This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present.

This introduction to the philosophy of medicine surveys the landscape of western philosophy as it pertains to healthcare in an accessible way.

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy.

Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life.

This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators.

This book proposes a bold idea.

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

Debunking myths behind what is known collectively as the new cosmologya grand, overlapping set of narratives that claim to bring science and spirituality togetherLisa H.

There's a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish andasks, "e;How's the water?

Natural disasters and cholera outbreaks.

This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellars's notion of ideal truth.

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

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In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain.