Philosophy of science

Science fiction explores the wonderful, baffling and wildly entertaining aspects of a universe unimaginably old and vast, and with a future even more immense.

This book examines three connected aspects of Frege's logicism: the differences between Dedekind's and Frege's interpretation of the term 'logic' and related terms and reflects on Frege's notion of function, comparing its understanding and the role it played in Frege's and Lagrange's foundational programs.

Includes an introduction, contextualizing his book in light of developing philosophical trends.

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biologyThis is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject.

Provides an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.

Presents the observations that helped establish our theories of the cosmos, from a unique and engaging perspective.

This book contains selected papers from symposia and contributed sessions presented at the third biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Lansing, Michigan, on October 27-29, 1972.

Leibniz said with a mixture of admiration and inspiration that the Duchess Sophie of Hannover always wanted to know the reason why behind the reason why.

This book tells the story of how the Platonic vision of Michael Polanyi - the Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher - bridges the gap between speculative metaphysics and scientific practice, thus making sense of the broad swathe of human experience in a phenomenologically satisfying fashion.

Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it.

Originally published in 1964.

Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted.

Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent.

In Search Of An Integrative Vision For Technology will stimulate its readers to consider the 'whole story that is information systems' within the context of an integrative vision of technology.

As concerns about humankind's relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda, this volume tells the story of the history of the concept of ecology itself and adds much to the historical and philosophical debate over this multifaceted discipline.

Making Sense of the World offers original work on the nature of understanding by a range of distinguished philosophers.

This book argues that evolution arises from the activities of organisms as agents, not from the replication of genes.

Como si de un paseo por su laboratorio se tratase, Jalalvand recrea con ingenio la relación entre los grandes temas filosóficos y los descubrimientos científicos.

This book takes a philosophical look at traditional technological tools such as hammers and drills as well as the modern: autonomous cars, ChatGPT, smartphones, apps, steam engines, nuclear power plants, computers, and many other systems that surround us.

Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous.

Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-metaphysics and methodology.

Joining the ancient debate over the roles of reason and appetite in the moral mind, In Praise of Desire takes the side of appetite.

Leibniz war in der Moderne wohl der letzte Universalgelehrte, der auf allen wesentlichen Wissensgebieten seiner Zeit originelle und innovative Leistungen erbracht hat: als reformorientierter Jurist, multilateral denkender Diplomat, als Mathematiker der Infinitesimalrechnung, als Erfinder einer Rechenmaschine und im Bergbau der Horizontalwindkraft, als Wissenschaftsorganisator und als einer der ersten Historiker, der quellenkritisch methodische Objektivität anstrebte.

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848, Prague) was a remarkable thinker and reformer far ahead of his time in many areas, including philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, logic, and mathematics.

This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Climate change will impact ecosystems and production processes.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works.

Instruments of Communication: An Essay on Scientific Writing provides an introduction to the instruments of logic and language.

The last century saw two great revolutions in genetics; the development of classic Mendelian theory and the discovery and investigation of DNA.

This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking's work.

Trotz sozialen und politischen Engagements wurden die Logischen Empiristen – allen voran die Mitglieder des Wiener Kreises – nicht für ihr überschwängliches Interesse an Ethik und Wertphilosophie bekannt.

This 2004 book develops an approach to the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics.

Das vorliegende Buch gewährt Einblicke und Ausblicke in unterschiedliche Disziplinen der Wissenschaft und die mit ihnen einhergehenden ethischen Probleme und Fragestellungen.

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: melanges offerts a Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019).

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature.

This is a volume on the concepts, theories, models and social consequences of creativity.

The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research.

According to Grothendieck, the notion of topos is "e;the bed or deep river where come to be married geometry and algebra, topology and arithmetic, mathematical logic and category theory, the world of the continuous and that of discontinuous or discrete structures"e;.

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.

Beyond their remarkable technical accomplishments, the new directions taken by the sciences in recent decades call for renewal of their epistemological basis.

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 monograph develops a new way of justifying the claims made by science about phenomenon not directly observable by humans, such as atoms and black holes.

Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent.

A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWhen we talk about delusions we may refer to symptoms of mental health problems, such as clinical delusions in schizophrenia, or simply the beliefs that people cling to which are implausible and resistant to counterevidence; these can include anything from beliefs about the benefits of homeopathy to concerns about the threat of alien abduction.