Philosophy of science

Universes discusses the alleged evidence of fine tuning; mechanisms by which a varied set of Universes might be generated, and whether belief in God could be preferable to accepting universes in vast numbers.

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades.

This volume is a logical sequel of Volume I, The Search for System: indeed, it concerns the ways theoretical systems are put to work and subjected to test.

In Infrahumanisms Megan H.

Letters from the year in which Darwin investigated insectivorous plants and received responses to his book on expression of emotions.

This book provides a vivid account of the early history of molecular simulation, a new frontier for our understanding of matter that was opened when the demands of theoretical physicists were met by the availability of the modern computers.

Explores how decision-makers can manage uncertainty that varies in both kind and severity by extending and supplementing Bayesian decision theory.

This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac.

This volume offers a new framework for understanding expertise.

This book provides a systematic analysis of how Alexandrian Jews interpreted the Bible in light of contemporary Homeric scholarship.

The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines.

This, the first in-depth and comprehensive book-length study of the Russian neo-Kantian movement in English language, challenges the assumption of the isolation of neo-Kantianism to Germany.

The first translation of the volumes in Michel Serres' classic 'Humanism' tetralogy, this ambitious philosophical narrative explores what it means to be human.

In recent years a global network of science has emerged as a result of thousands of individual scientists seeking to collaborate with colleagues around the world, creating a network which rises above national systems.

Prominent researchers from philosophy and the social studies of science present a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy.

The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence.

The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues.

When young children first begin to ask 'why?

How should we theorize about the social world?

This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter?

Archaeology in the past century has seen a major shift from theoretical frameworks that treat the remains of past societies as static snapshots of particular moments in time to interpretations that prioritize change and variability.

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.

Originally published in 1957 and written by one of the 20th Century's leading botanists and a fierce advocate of organicism, this book explores concepts about man and his relation to life and the universe, and about the great creative and spiritual powers within and around him.

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Although various sections of this work have been published separately in various journals and volumes their separate publication is wholly attributable to the exigencies of life in academia: the work was devised as and is supposed to constitute something of an organic unity.

For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalite.

Combining physics and philosophy, this interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science provides an up-to-date examination of developments in this field.

Originally published in 1967.

This book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program.

The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism.

The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty''s philosophy.

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe.

This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz's dynamics project (c.

This book presents an interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism.

This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period.

Computers are essential for the functioning of our society.

Time's 'Man of the Century', Albert Einstein is the unquestioned founder of modern physics.

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist.

The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

This book deconstructs and debunks the lucrative and widespread marriage of quantum physics with pop-spirituality while tracing this pernicious strain of pseudoscience to its source: the founders of quantum mechanics themselves.

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate.

What do we understand 'noise' to be?

Originally published in 1970.

Behavior and Culture in One Dimension adopts a broad interdisciplinary approach, presenting a unified theory of sequences and their functions and an overview of how they underpin the evolution of complexity.

Introducing the reader to the very latest developments in the philosophical foundations of physics, this book covers advanced material at a level suitable for beginner and intermediate students.

This book offers a rationale for a new 'ramified natural theology' that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible.

This edited volume aims to better understand the multifaceted phenomenon we call health.

This book puts forward a harmonious analysis of similarities and differences between two concepts-human minds and cultures-and strives for a multicultural spectrum of philosophical explorations that could assist them in pondering the striking pursuit of envisaging human minds and cultures as an essential appraisal of philosophy and the social sciences.