Philosophy of science

The twentieth century witnessed the birth of analytic philosophy.

This book discusses how and why historical measurement units developed, and reviews useful methods for making conversions as well as situations in which dimensional analysis can be used.

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.

This book explores curiosity from a normative epistemological viewpoint.

This collection of essays examines  the key achievements and likely developments in the area of automated reasoning.

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction.

This book provides a thorough and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of quantum physics.

This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced with a foreword by Sir Patrick Moore.

This book provides a comprehensive account of vascular biology and pathology and its significance for health and disease.

This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination.

This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938.

This book explores why the concept of wild pedagogy is an essential aspect of education in these times; a re-negotiated education that acknowledges the necessity of listening to voices in a more than human world, and (re)learning how to dwell in a place.

This book explores the relationships between humans, chickens, and environments in the context of protein production.

This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics.

This investigation of time and space is motivated by gaps in our current understanding: by the lack of definitions, by our failure to appreciate the nature of these entities, by our inability to pin down their properties.

This book addresses the pursuit and further investigation of experimental results by analyzing classic examples from physics.

This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen.

In this study Arun Bala examines the implications that Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity holds for fields beyond physics.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Nature of Science (NOS), one of the most important aspects of science teaching and learning, and includes tested strategies for teaching aspects of the NOS in a variety of instructional settings.

This book presents the most complete translation to date of Erwin Schrodinger's work on colorimetry.

This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy.

Many people living with epilepsy also suffer from debilitating psychiatric and cognitive disorders.

This book presents the latest research, conducted by leading philosophers and scientists from various fields, on the topic of top-down causation.

As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the characterization of vagueness in pictures.

This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology.

The purpose of this work is to critically assess Errol E.

This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development.

In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d'Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the velocity components; and how he tries to reduce the resistance of a moving body, which is a change of its momentum, to the hydrostatical pressure, which is related to the gravity.

This volume presents discussions on a wide range of topics focused on eco-phenomenology and the interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary environmental thought.

This book is an exploration of the integration-differentiation dynamics that result in a drive, or impulse, toward human sociality, arguing that our need to connect with other people is as fundamental as our need for food and shelter.

This book describes the historical development of the principle of stationary action from  the 17th to the 20th centuries.

The relationship between geography and philosophy is still largely in need of being explored.

This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period.

This state-of-the-art book brings together the full range of issues that can inform care for patients experiencing the effects of concussion.

This book presents a modern scholarly analysis of issues associated with England's most famous astronomer, William Herschel.

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "e;the mind-body problem"e;.

This book represents a journey through the history of science in regards to the concept of time, specifically, the question as to whether it is absolute, relative, or irreversible.

This book is about the philosophy of de-extinction.

This book offers a considered yet entertaining reflection on the progress of modern scientific research.

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.

The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy.

This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged.

This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades.

This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character.

This accessible and entertaining biography chronicles the life and triumphs of astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who helped lay the foundations of modern astronomy in the 20th century.

This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism.

This edited volume contains 24 different research papers by members of the History and Heritage Working Group of the Southeast Asian Astronomy Network.

This anthology opens new perspectives in the domain of history, philosophy, and science teaching research.

This book introduces a refreshing approach to twenty-first-century scientific approach in an age, which is also known as the Century of Complexity.