Philosophy of science

The letters transcribed in this book were written by physicist David Bohm to three close female acquaintances in the period 1950 to 1956.

In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action.

The present collection of seventeen papers, most of them already published in international philosophical journals, deals both with issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language and epistemology.

This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C.

This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities in general and spatial perception in particular in a systematic and interdisciplinary way.

Ellis shows that realistic theories of quantum mechanics, time, causality and human freedom - all problematic areas for the acceptance of scientific realism - can be developed satisfactorily.

This book explores the discipline of psychology through in-depth dialogues with scholars who have lived at the turbulent edges of mainstream psychology in the USA, and who have challenged the most cherished theoretical frameworks.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas.

This book presents the transformation of Cassirer's transcendental point of view.

Our brain is the source of everything that makes us human: language, creativity, rationality, emotion, communication, culture, politics.

How do we get an idea from the physical world?

Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics.

This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937).

What if there were a pill for love?

A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her lifeClaudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life.

Explores the nature of error and inference, drawing on exchanges on experimental reasoning, reliability, and the objectivity of science.

This is the third 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.

This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century.

Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns.

What is it about art that can be so captivating?

This book provides a fascinating insight into the life and scientific work of Laura Bassi, the first female member of the influential Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna and also the first woman to be appointed a university professor in physics, or universal philosophy as it was then termed.

Jennifer Trusted's new book argues that metaphysical beliefs are essential for scientific inquiry.

This book offers a unique perspective on the colonial roots of modern science, technology, and medicine (STM) in South Asia.

Originally published in 1930, Sir Oliver Lodge proposes a connection between physics and philosophy, or as he describes it, a key to unlock the intricate connection between mind and matter.

This book, Philosophy of Chemistry, is dedicated to some of the general principles of philosophy of chemistry, the special branch of philosophy of science.

Philosophy of mathematics today has transformed into a very complex network of diverse ideas, viewpoints, and theories.

Vernunft ohne das menschliche Vertrauen in die Möglichkeit von und zu (seiner eigenen und seiner Mitmenschen) Vernünftigkeit ist nicht möglich.

This book examines how major interpretations of quantum theory are progressing toward a more unified understanding and experience of nature.

This book traces the history of life-concepts, with a focus on the vegetable souls of Aristotle, investigating how they were interpreted and eventually replaced by evolutionary biology.

Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.

Unlike nearly all science books which tell of successful ventures and satisfactory conclusions, this book reveals the harsher but more common side of scientific research.

This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sciences the presents original counter arguments to recent trends in the debate and serves as useful introduction to the subject.

Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations of environmentalism in this comprehensively revised second edition.

There is a need for integrated thinking about causality, probability and mechanisms in scientific methodology.

This book links the philosophical perception of time and Einstein's theory of special relativity to economic processes, showing that the phenomena of time dilation and length contraction seen in physics can be identified within - and adapted to - an economic framework.

Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities and cognitive capacities.

In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and arguments on the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundbreaking 1996 book, The Conscious Mind.

This book aims to perform a critical and broad assessment of the historiography of science produced from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

This book proposes a new way of reading modern Western philosophers in the Indian context.

This anthology aims to present the fundamental philosophical issues and tools required by the reflection within and upon geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) .

The last decade witnessed an unprecedented annual growth of the literature dealing with the philosophy of economics,as well as the first signs of an institutionalization (conferences, an international journal) of the philosophy of economics as a scientific subject in itself - in particular in the U.