Philosophy of science

This book presents the first comprehensive set of principles for an ethics of science communication.

This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.

Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construct sound theories.

This volume critically reexamines Otto Neurath's conception of the unity of science.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction in to the various theories of colour and how they developed over the centuries and millennia.

During the second half of the twentieth century, economics exported its logic - utility maximization - to the analysis of several human activities or realities: a tendency that has been called "e;economic imperialism"e;.

This innovative book proposes a unique and original perspective on the nature of the mind and how phenomenal consciousness may arise in a physical world.

People tend to enjoy listening to music or watching television, sleeping at night and celebrating birthdays.

In a world that peers over the brink of disaster more often than not it is difficul t to find specific assignments for the scholarly community.

Thomas Kuhn is widely considered as one of the most important philosophers of science in the 20th century and his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is regarded as one of the most influential works in the philosophy of science.

The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree.

This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology.

Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality.

Cultural domination has received attention inside and outside of academia, but it remains under-explored in recent philosophical debate.

In early April 1911 Albert Einstein arrived in Prague to become full professor of theoretical physics at the German part of Charles University.

Modern mathematical logic would not exist without the analytical tools first developed by George Boole in The Mathematical Analysis of Logic and The Laws of Thought.

"e;To all who love the God with a 1000 names and respect science"e; In the last quarter century, the academic field of Science and Theology (Religion) has attracted scholars from a wide variety of disciplines.

Gertrudis Van de Vijver* Seminar of Logic and Epistemology University of Ghent Before being classified under the fashionable denominators of complexity and chaos, self-organization and autonomy were intensely inquired into in the cybernetic tradition.

This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity.

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Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality.

This book tells the curious story of an unexpected finding that sheds light on a crucial moment in the development of physics: the discovery of artificial radioactivity induced by neutrons.

Soviet citizens can buy Monastyrsky's biography of Riemann for eleven kopeks.

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This book looks ''behind the model'' to show how formal models of the economy work - and why they sometimes fail.

This book, first published in 1938, is based on the Muirhead Lectures given at Birmingham University in February and March of 1937.

From antiquity to the early modern period, many philosophers also studied anatomy and medicine, or were medical doctors themselves -- yet the history of philosophy and of medicine are pursued as separate disciplines.

For over 40 years, Mary Midgley made a forceful case for the relevance and importance of philosophy.

Dictionary of Critical Realism fulfils a vital gap in the literature, Critical Realism is often criticised for being too opaque and deploying too much jargon, thereby making the concepts inaccessible for a wider audience.

This edited collection explores the philosophy of Clarence Irving Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given.

The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.

First Published in 2008.

As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future.

This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no power-usually, although not exclusively, animals.

This book calls for a rethinking of logic as the core methodological tool for scientific reasoning in the context of a steadily increasing emphasis on data-centered science.

This book provides an introduction to Newtonian and relativistic mechanics.

The papers collected here are, with three exceptions, those presented at a conference on probability and causation held at the University of California at Irvine on July 15-19, 1985.

This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience.

The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative,multidisciplinary investigation.

City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network.

This book is a critical appraisal of the status of the so-called Climate Sciences (CS).

First Published in 1982 Philosophy and the New Physics is a compact and yet remarkably rich excursion through the history of physics from Newtonian mechanics to quantum physics.

This book refutes anti-scientific, superficially mathematical arguments used to support anti-evolutionism in language accessible for both lay and professional audiences.

Originally published in 1975.

Traditionally, philosophers have argued that epistemology is a normative discipline and therefore occupied with an a priori analysis of the necessary and sufficient conditions that a belief must fulfill to be acceptable as knowledge.