Philosophy of science

This title was first published in 2000: This book addresses issues which are central in the philosophy of science, exploring a large and relevant literature.

First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought.

The work published by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) in 1935 is a classic in modern physics.

This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations.

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court?

This volume critically examines the role of science in the humanities and social sciences.

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition.

From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences.

Going beyond the division of nature and society, this unique book explores human life as a process of biosocial becoming.

This remarkable collection of essays, diverse but united by the theme of critical reasoning, testifies to the attention and respect paid by the authors to the philosophical career of Gerard Radnitzky.

Explores the interesting and challenging philosophical terrain where issues regarding cooperation, commitment, and control intersect.

This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its founder, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his successor, Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962), and student-turned-critic, Tosaka Jun (1900-1945).

Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others?

This book is the first systematic and historical account of the Vienna Circle that deals with the relation of logical empiricists with religion as well as theology.

Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years.

In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress.

In the 20th century philosophy of mathematics has to a great extent been dominated by views developed during the so-called foundational crisis in the beginning of that century.

Model theory is used in every theoretical branch of analytic philosophy: in philosophy of mathematics, in philosophy of science, in philosophy of language, in philosophical logic, and in metaphysics.

In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy.

The Routledge Guidebook to James's Principles of Psychology is an engaging and accessible introduction to a monumental text that has influenced the development of both psychological science and philosophical pragmatism in important and lasting ways.

In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena.

In this beautifully written book, David E.

In 1965 the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science founded the Nicolas Copernicus Committee whose main task was to explore the means by th which different nations could co-operate in celebrating the 5 centenary of the great scholar's birth.

Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system.

Spectacular Posthumanism examines the ways in which VFX imagery fantasizes about digital disembodiment while simultaneously reasserting the importance of the lived body.

Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with the history of temporal logic as well as the crucial systematic questions within the field.

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.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

This book is a study of relativism as a dominant intellectual preoccupation of our time.

This book presents and defends an original and paradigm-shifting conception of formal science, natural science, and the natural universe alike, that's fully pro-science, but at the same time neither theological or God-centered, nor solipsistic or self-centered, nor communitarian or social-institution-centered, nor scientistic or science-valorizing, nor materialist/physicalist or reductive, nor-above all-mechanistic.

This book intends to show that radical naturalism (or physicalism), nominalism and strict finitism account for the applications of classical mathematics in current scientific theories.

This is a rare book on a rare topic: it is about 'action' and the Principle of Least Action.

Nuclear energy, stem cell technology, GMOs: the more science advances, the more society seems to resist.

This book is an investigation of the ideological dimensions of the disciplinary discourses on science in line with the scholarly tradition of historical epistemology.

At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his friendly critics, his fellow-scientist and fellow-philosophers, have the works of Milic Capek before them in one volume, aside from his books of course.

Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'.

This is a concise introductory textbook for a one-semester (40-class) course in the history and philosophy of mathematics.

Militarism is the elephant in the room of global warming.

Physical Science in the Modern World surveys the whole range of the non-biological sciences.

The more traditional approaches to the history and philosophy of science and technology continue as well, and probably will continue as long as there are skillful practitioners such as Carl Hempel, Ernest Nagel, and th~ir students.

Have you ever wondered about Time: what it is or how to discuss it?

This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf--one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings.

Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free.

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

This Element introduces major issues in the epistemology of experimental physics through discussion of canonical physics experiments.