Philosophy of science

Are there truly fundamental entities in nature?

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

How did life start?

The book's core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence-sometimes called artificial general intelligence (AGI)-is for mathematical reasons impossible.

Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the nineteenth century's most important German natural scientists.

What is the role of scientists in society?

A short, provocative book about why "e;useless"e; science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughsA forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value.

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective.

This book brings together the work of Wilfrid Sellars with work in 20th century phenomenology and 21st century speculative realism in order to think through one of the most important predicaments of contemporary philosophy.

TheTheory of the Top attained its great fame from both its monum- tal scope and its outstanding authors.

This text brings history and the key fields of physics together to present a unique technical discussion of the principles of least action.

Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations.

Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the physics and metaphysics of chance and time.

This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking.

Grometstein explains modern physics with enthusiasm, wit and insight.

In Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy, Alexander Styhre and Rebecka Arman illuminate issues that have given rise to terms such as 'the bioeconomy' and 'the baby business'.

Placebo cures.

This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research!

In this compelling work, the distinguished French scientist Georges Mallet presents a chronological account of the major scientific discoveries of the past three millennia, guiding readers through the development of theories explaining the lead-up to the Big Bang and exploring alternative explanations to the creation of the universe.

From the author of "e;Celestial Sleuth"e; (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings.

This book has two aims; first, to provide a new account of time's arrow in light of relativity theory; second, to explain how God, being eternal, relates to our world, marked as it is by change and time.

This title was first published in 2000: This book addresses issues which are central in the philosophy of science, exploring a large and relevant literature.

A venerable tradition in the metaphysics of science commends ontological reduction: the practice of analysis of theoretical entities into further and further proper parts, with the understanding that the original entity is nothing but the sum of these.

From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information.

This volume assembles supporters and critics of situated cognition research to evaluate the intricacies, prerequisites, possibilities, and scope of a 4E methodology.

This book offers a unique perspective on one of the deepest questions about the world we live in: is reality multi-leveled, or can everything be reduced to some fundamental 'flat' level?

The philosophy of Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is a hot topic in early modern philosophy.

This book, first published in 2006, evaluates Kuhn''s most influential ideas using theories developed by cognitive scientists.

There's a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish and asks, "e;How's the water?

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism.

This book takes the reader on a journey through the life of Richard Feynman and describes, in non-technical terms, his revolutionary contributions to modern physics.

This last one out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series focuses on various fields of social sciences and their connection to international politics.

This book explores the different conceptions of reality in the various interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, demonstrating the intimate connection to philosophy of physics.

This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle.

This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach.

In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis.

Arguing for a renewed view of objects and nature, Ethical Responses to Nature's Call considers how it is possible to understand our ethical duties - in the form of ethical intuitionalism - to nature and the planet by listening to and releasing ourselves over to the call or address of nature.

This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature.

What are the unequivocal causes of a scientific revolution?

Science and Convention: Essays on Henri Poincare's Philosophy of Science and The Conventionalist Tradition contains essays concerned with Henri Poincare's philosophy of science, physics in particular, and with the conventionalist tradition in philosophy that he revived and reshaped, simultaneously with, but independently of, Pierre Duhem.

Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life reverses current priorities, stressing the primogenital role of aesthetic enjoyment, rather than cognition, as typifying the Human Condition.

The essays in this volume constitute a portion of the research program being carried out by the International Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences.