Philosophy of science

This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science.

In this largely nontechnical book, eminent physicists and philosophers address the philosophical impact of recent advances in quantum physics.

The latest edition of "e;Ideals and Realities"e; includes some of the most recent talks given by Professor Abdus Salam.

Leading experts in psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology integrate the scientific lenses relevant to understanding psychiatric disorders.

This volume presents a selection of 434 letters from and to the Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928), covering the period from 1883 until a few months before his death in February 1928.

Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon's recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge.

In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B.

This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement.

The fourth volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science consists mainly of papers which were contributed to our Colloquium during the past few years.

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

Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable.

Every day we hear news about medical or scientific breakthroughs and the complex ethical issues they raise.

The Twentieth Century has seen a dramatic rise in the use of probability and statistics in almost all fields of research.

In this Introduction we shall state the business of both descriptive and normative epistemology, and shall locate them in the map oflearning.

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This volume is the first book-length study on post-publication responses to academic plagiarism in humanities disciplines.

Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world.

In Stages of Thought, Michael Barnes examines a pattern of cognitive development that has evolved over thousands of years--a pattern manifest in both science and religion.

This 2007 volume contains all of Kant''s major writings on human nature.

Bringing together recent case studies and insights into current developments, this collection introduces philosophers to a range of experimental methods from neuroscience.

This book sets out a new and distinctive means of conceptualising research in the field of Education: 'Freedom Research'.

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The boundaries between inanimate technology and the realm of the living become increasingly blurred.

This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017).

How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities-demons-to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world.

An inference may be defined as a passage of thought according to some method.

Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century.

Mathematics is often considered as a body of knowledge that is essen- tially independent of linguistic formulations, in the sense that, once the content of this knowledge has been grasped, there remains only the problem of professional ability, that of clearly formulating and correctly proving it.

This book offers fresh perspective on the role of phenomenology in the philosophy of physics which opens new avenues for discussion among physicists, "e;standard"e; philosophers of physics and philosophers with phenomenological leanings.

In some of his most famous works, John Philoponus (c.

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson's L'evolution creatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H.

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.

Analyses the ongoing scientific debates surrounding reduction and emergence, arguing that these debates are empirically resolvable.

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This book reveals the French scientific contribution to the mathematical theory of nonlinear oscillations and its development.

This book provides the first unified overview of the burgeoning research area at the interface between Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information.

This volume is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) counted among the influential twentieth-century philosophers of science.

Material objects persist through time and survive change.

This book gives a short presentation of the triad philosophy-physics-technology against the background of the common origin in ancient times.

This book explores the main biological dimensions underlying functional integration and examines how they contribute to defining a biological individual as both a physiological and evolutionary unit.

The search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars?

Showing that different approaches can be combined in a single disciplinary framework, Scott argues that sociologists can transcend theoretical differences.