Philosophy of science

Emergence is often described as the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts: interactions among the components of a system lead to distinctive novel properties.

This book presents the first ecocritical study of novelist, philosopher, poet and public intellectual Iris Murdoch (1919–1999).

This volume grew out of the experience of the First Inter-American Congress on Philosophy of Technology, October 1988, organized by the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagiiez.

New biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human - or posthuman - to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration.

Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world.

How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum?

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.

Richard Taylor was born in Charlotte, Michigan on 5 November 1919.

It is hard to interpret quantum mechanics.

As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss.

2 But already he had done important work on thermal equilibrium which helped generalize Maxwell's distribution law.

Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are 'causes' things we can experience, or are they concepts provided by our minds?

This Atlas of the History of Modern Science functions as a textbook to help the student, by means of diagrams and flowcharts, to better understand both science and the history of science.

A wide-ranging and illuminating account of how our understanding of the world has developed by uncovering ''hidden unities'' in nature.

Despite its long history and stunning experimental successes, the mathematical foundation of perturbative quantum field theory is still a subject of ongoing research.

If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world?

The first extended study of Bruno Latour's legal theory, this book presents a critical reconstruction of the whole of Latour's oeuvre to date, from Laboratory Life to An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence.

First published in 1990, this book consists of a detailed exposition of results of the theory of "e;interpretation"e; developed by G.

Linnaeus' mature theodicy, his attempt to reconcile the suffering and evil of the world with the omnipotence and goodness of God, is presented in a condensed form in the final editions of his Systema Naturae (1758/68).

Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field.

The history of science is articulated by moments of discovery.

In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world.

Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)?

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind's engagement with the world.

In September 2007, more than 100 philosophers came to Prague with the determination to approach Karl Popper's philosophy as a source of inspiration in many areas of our intellectual endeavor.

Quantum field theory (QFT) provides the framework for many fundamental theories in modern physics, and over the last few years there has been growing interest in its historical and philosophical foundations.

At the 1969 annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad- vancement ofScience, held in Boston on December 27-29, a sequence of symposia on the philosophical foundations of science was organized jointly by Section L of the Association and the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science.

This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge.

In this book, Esposito presents a historiography of organicist and holistic thought through an examination of the work of leading biologists from Britain and America.

The concept of naturalness has largely disappeared from the academic discourse in general but also the particular field of environmental studies.

Material Hermeneutics explores the ways in which new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history.

A critical assessment of the standard cosmological model and its main challenger, modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND).

Originally published in 1966.

Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the furniture of the world.

The present volume contains many of the papers presented at a four-day conference held by the Husserl-Archives in Leuven in April 2009 to c- memorate the one hundred and ?

This introduction to one of the liveliest and most popular fields in philosophy is written specifically for a beginning readership with no background in philosophy or science.

This is the first of three volumes which together contain the complete range of Lord Rutherford's scientific papers, incorporating in addition addresses, general lectures, letters to editors, accounts of his scientific work and personal recollections by friends and colleagues.

Provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, covering such issues as religion, race and gender.

This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism.

Originally published in 1934.

Boris Kuznetsov was a scientist among humanists, a philosopher among scientists, a historian for those who look to the future, an optimist in an age of sadness.

An exploration of key concepts in the study of animal communication, covering case studies as well as more theoretical issues.

This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond.

This book offers the first sustained investigation of the phenomenon of retraction - the "e;taking back"e; of the conventional or deontic effects of a previous speech act - bringing together issues and solutions from the semantics of perspectival expressions and from the framework of Speech Act theory.

Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors.