Philosophy of science

As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C.

More than 300 years ago, Isaac Newton created a mathematical model of the solar system that predicted the existence of a yet unknown planet: Neptune.

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

How should we reason in science?

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is widely regarded as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century.

Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum.

This book offers a phenomenological conception of experiential justification that seeks to clarify why certain experiences are a source of immediate justification and what role experiences play in gaining (scientific) knowledge.

The use of the term "e;biology"e; to refer to a unified science of life emerged around 1800 (most prominently by scientists such as Lamarck and Treviranus, although scholarship has indicated its usage at least 30-40 years earlier).

Computational methods have become the dominant technique in many areas of science.

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Every human being is aware of the flow of time.

A full and annotated collection of the correspondence between two extraordinary scientific individuals, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis.

Why did an atheist like Carl Sagan talk so much about God?

The Fourth Scandinavian Logic Symposium and the First Soviet-Finnish Logic Conference were held in JyvaskyIa, Finland, June 29-July 6, 1976.

In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe.

"e;I re-experience once again the stimulating atmosphere of each of the ISQMs: There were theoretical discussions in diverse frontier areas of physics as well as descriptions of beautiful new (or planned) experiments and technologies.

This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation.

A concise and accessible introduction to the concept of species, exploring its historical, biological and philosophical uses.

A number of years ago, Harriet Sheridan, then Dean of Brown University, organized a series oflectures in which individual faculty members described how it came about that they entered their various fields.

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 analyses the role of religion during the COVID- 19 pandemic and vaccination rollout in Zimbabwe.

Originally published in 1937.

A study of the ways in which representations in physics can express the same content, despite apparent mathematical differences.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of color science, told through the stories of more than 90 of the most prominent figures in the field and their contributions.

What essentially is a garden?

This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies.

Four American women: Marcia Siegel, Deborah Jowitt, Arlene Croce and Nancy Goldner are writers who became dance critics partly by design.

Why trust science?

Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results.

A unique take on how to survive and thrive in the process your PhD, this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides.

We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming.

Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend.

Answering questions such as whether the interesting parts of science be conveyed in sermons, poems, pictures and journalism, Knight explores the history of science to show how the successes and failures of our ancestors can help us understand the position science comes to occupy now.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it.

This thesis introduces a new theoretical tool to explore the notion of time and temporal order in quantum mechanics: the relativistic quantum "e;clock"e; framework.

Near-death experiences offer a glimpse not only into the nature of death but also into the meaning of life.

Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science.

At the 6th International Zermatt Symposium, Prof Antonino Zichichi of the World Federation of Scientists presented a lecture to a diverse audience of scientists, managers and engineers, among others, all of whom were interested to learn about the creative process which distinguishes mankind from other forms of life.

Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title!

This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book is a gentle introduction for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos.

The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time.

This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies.

A collection of essays on the philosophy and foundations of quantum gravity by leading philosophers and physicists in the field.

This first volume of Husserlian Legacies: Themes for the 21st Century  focuses on hitherto underexamined dimensions of Husserl's philosophical thinking and in particular, values and love.