Philosophy of science

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science asks twelve philosophers to debate six questions that are driving contemporary work in this area of philosophy.

Many philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians have wondered about the remarkable relationship between mathematics with its abstract, pure, independent structures on one side, and the wilderness of natural phenomena on the other.

"e;Tell me,"e; Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "e;why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?

Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individually.

Universes discusses the alleged evidence of fine tuning; mechanisms by which a varied set of Universes might be generated, and whether belief in God could be preferable to accepting universes in vast numbers.

In order for there to be knowledge, there must be at least some primary elements which may be called 'starting points'.

The classic case for why government must support science-with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science todayScience, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government's responsibility to support scientific endeavors.

This book gives an analysis of Hertz's posthumously published Principles of Mechanics in its philosophical, physical and mathematical context.

This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history.

The environmental crisis is the most prominent challenge humanity has ever had to battle with, and humanity is currently failing.

Vulnerability has become part of our everyday vocabulary.

This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976.

This book brings together an impressive group of leading scholars in the sciences of complexity, and a few workers on the interface of science and religion, to explore the wider implications of complexity studies.

Von den drei Hauptwerken, die Roger Bacon in dem kurzen Zeitraum zwischen 1266 und 1268 verfasste, war das »Opus tertium« das letzte, die Zusammenfassung und Summa seines Denkens und seiner Forderungen an eine Modernisierung von Theologie und Wissenschaft seiner Zeit.

Arguing About Science is an outstanding, engaging introduction to the essential topics in philosophy of science, edited by two leading experts in the field.

George Berkeley was considered "e;the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century"e;.

Bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions from the fields of social and cognitive psychology, philosophy and science education, this volume explores representational pluralism as a phenomenon characteristic of human cognition.

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was one of the greatest physicists and mathematicians the Netherlands has ever known.

The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them.

Complexity theories gained prominence in the 1990s with a focus on self-organising and complex adaptive systems.

Published in 1999: This book is about Alchemy, Philosophy and Science during the 17th century written by the author originally published in 1650.

A comprehensive study of German materialism in the second half of the nineteenth century is long overdue.

This is an engrossing book.

This book provides an exhaustive overview of the ontology of relations.

From Descartes and Cartesian mind-body dualism in the 17th century though to 21st-century concerns about artificial intelligence programming, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness presents a compelling history and up-to-date overview of this burgeoning subject area.

Since the publication of Roy Bhaskar's A Realist Theory of Science in 1975, critical realism has been evolved as one of the new developments in the areas of philosophy of natural and social science which offers an alternatively fresh view to the existing theories including positivism and post-modernism.

A dopamine hit on every page Marcus du SautoyA sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.

Explores the extent to which Aristotle''s ethical treatises employ the concepts, methods, and practices developed in his ''scientific'' works.

Intersecting physics and philosophy of science, this book outlines the philosophical challenge to theoretical physics in a measured style.

Disagreement is one of the deepest and most pervasive topics in philosophy; arguably its very bedrock, and is an ever-increasing feature of politics, ethics, public policy, science and many other areas.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

This intellectual biography of Immanuel Kant's early years-- from 1746 when he wrote his first book, to 1766 when he lost his faith in metaphysics --makes an outstanding contribution to Kant scholarship.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences.

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.

Because of continuing debates about foundational issues as well as the recent consensus about non-locality, it is time to resolve the long-standing quantum enigmas.

This book explores curiosity from a normative epistemological viewpoint.

An examination of how images can serve as communication tools to popularize science in the public eyeAs funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support becomes essential.

This edited volume explores the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics.

This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low.

This book uses philosophy, science and probability to analyse why simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex.

A discussion of the rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of technology and the humanities, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary developments in Continental philosophy and philosophy of technology.

A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFrom angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere.

In What is Science?

How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture?

This book provides a completely revised and expanded version of the previous classic edition 'General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics'.

This book explores the strong links between sustainability and the humanities, which go beyond the inclusion of social sciences in discussions on sustainability, and offers a holistic discussion on the intellectual and moral aspects of sustainable development.