Philosophy of science

This book describes current practices in science communication, from citizen science to Twitter storms, and celebrates this diversity through case studies and examples.

The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable.

This book explores gender norms and women's rights in the age of AI.

Originally published in 1987.

This book discusses the philosophical work of Decio Krause.

Biology and history are often viewed as closely related disciplines, with biology informed by history, especially in its task of charting our evolutionary past.

This book reflects the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse.

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger''s What is Life?

Change the story and change the future - merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign AnthropoceneIn Changing Tides, Alejandro Frid tackles the big questions: who, or what, represents our essential selves, and what stories might allow us to shift the collective psyche of industrial civilization in time to avert the worst of the climate and biodiversity crises?

When we ask whether something exists, we expect a yes or no answer, not a further query about what kind of existence, how much of it, whether we mean existence for you or existence for me, or whether we are asking about some property which it might have.

Recently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science.

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

Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies.

What is truth?

What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery?

This book discusses the notion that quantum gravity may represent the "e;breakdown"e; of spacetime at extremely high energy scales.

As I turned the pages and began reading this odyssey of Barry Johnston, as a veteran and artist, my interest increased, and I was pleased that I had agreed to review it.

Moritz Pasch (1843-1930) is justly celebrated as a key figure in the history of axiomatic geometry.

Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities.

Todays scientists are showing us how stem cells create and repair the human body.

The bubbles were swirling all around me, massaging my body.

In der Formierungsphase der Neuzeit hat Blaise Pascal den durch den Fortschritt der Wissenschaften verursachten Wandel des Weltbildes sowohl existentiell erlitten wie kritisch reflektiert.

Das Buch handelt von den Herausforderungen der Evolutionstheorie für unser Menschenbild.

An explanation and defence of evidential decision theory, which emphasises the symptomatic value of options over their causal role.

The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary.

First published in 1945, The Impact and Value of Science is both a plea and a challenge: a plea for more and more science - not to increase the sum total of technical knowledge nor to extend present material amenities, but in the words of the author for the sake of "e;mental maturity.

This book presents a novel approach to the analysis of interdisciplinary science based on the contemporary philosophical literature on scientific representation.

First published in 1988, the aim of this book can be stated in Nietzsche's words: 'To look at science from the perspective of the artist, but at art from that of life'.

Originally published in 1982.

Can quantum particles be regarded as individuals, just like books, tables and people?

This volume is a serious attempt to open up the subject of European philosophy of science to real thought, and provide the structural basis for the interdisciplinary development of its specialist fields, but also to provoke reflection on the idea of 'European philosophy of science'.

hose who think about time are thinking deeply.

This book explores the deep meaning-the nature or essence-of the economy and its fundamental components.

A conceptually and mathematically rigorous analysis of the common cause principle and its status in quantum theory.

One of the more characteristic features of contemporary sociology is an increasing interest in theories.

In this fifth volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, we have gathered papers about the logic and methods of the natural sciences.

This book explores the promissory discourses and practices associated with the bioeconomy, focusing especially on the transformation of institutions; the creation, appropriation, and distribution of value; the struggle over resources, power, and meaning; and the role of altruism, kinship, and care practices.

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe.

The word 'materialism' is ambiguous: it designates a moral doc- trine as well as a philosophy and, indeed, an entire world view.

This book reconciles the worlds of mysticism and logic, building on the author's previous groundbreaking work in oceanic logic.

In a culture in which science is believed to hold the answers to every question, spiritual realities like the soul are often ignored or ridiculed.

This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself.

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education: "e;You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"e; continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the teaching of bioethics from disparate disciplines, geographies, and contexts.

The science fiction genre maintains a remarkable hold on the imagination and enthusiasm of the filmgoing public, captivating large audiences worldwide and garnering ever-larger profits.

Science and philosophy have both undergone radical transformations in recent times.

"e;Is quantum logic really logic?