Philosophy of science

This work celebrates the investigative power of phenomenology to explore the phenomenological sense of space and time in conjunction with the phenomenology of intentionality, the invisible, the sacred, and the mystical.

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe?

';A must-read for anyone looking to understand how artificial intelligence is poised to transform human society and life.

This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character.

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

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Originally published in 1966.

This book focuses on the gradual formation of the concept of 'light quanta' or 'photons', as they have usually been called in English since 1926.

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries.

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.

'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf power, of honour and omnipotenceIs promised to the studious artisan.

Eines der zentralen Anliegen des "Wiener Kreises" ist heute aktueller denn je.

Some of philosophy's biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong?

This monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy.

This volume is the first to present a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements.

Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly wrong-headed beliefs.

The new discoveries in physics during the twentieth century have stimulated intense debate about their relevance to age-old theological questions.

This book features papers on the history and philosophy of science.

Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past.

Originally published in 1968 The Founders of Psychical Research is centred upon the lives and work of Henry Sidgwick, Edmund Gurney and Frederic Myers - prominent in the Society for Psychical Research (S.

This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination.

Personnages étranges, intrigues et énigmes, fascination et rivalités, enthousiasme, désespoir, et puis coup de théâtre : la recherche scientifique est romanesque.

Howard Pattee is a physicist who for many years has taken his own path in studying the physics of symbols, which is now a foundation for biosemiotics.

This volume offers perspectives on the theme of surprise crossing philosophical, phenomenological, scientific, psycho-physiology, psychiatric, and linguistic boundaries.

A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science.

In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions: Does our universe have a beginning and an end or is it cyclic?

Analyses the ongoing scientific debates surrounding reduction and emergence, arguing that these debates are empirically resolvable.

Is everything Information?

In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "e;stories"e; about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2.

Is mathematics a highly sophisticated intellectual game in which the adepts display their skill by tackling invented problems, or are mathematicians engaged in acts of discovery as they explore an independent realm of mathematical reality?

This textbook describes and explains the fundamentals of applying empirical methods for theory building and theory testing in marketing research.

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

Optimization under constraints is an essential part of everyday life.

This volume brings together essays from several different perspectives on a topic in epistemology that is garnering increased attention: Inquiry.

This practical guide to artificial intelligence and its impact on industry dispels common myths and calls for cross-sector, collaborative leadership for the responsible design and embedding of AI in the daily work of businesses and oversight by boards.

The book considers foundational thinking in quantum theory, focusing on the role the fundamental principles and principle thinking there, including thinking that leads to the invention of new principles, which is, the book contends, one of the ultimate achievements of theoretical thinking in physics and beyond.

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre's updated and substantially revised fourth edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction.

Philosophy of biology has a long and honourable history.

The case for a thoughtful secularism from some of today's most distinguished scientists, philosophers, and writersCan secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction?

Innovative account of the origins of quantum mechanics told from a historical perspective, for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers.

A novel and up-to-date approach to quantum mechanics that extends the standard formalism to cover the observer and their apparatus.

Here is a universal biology that draws upon the contributions of Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel to unravel the mystery of life and conceive what is essential to living things anywhere they may arise.

With the aid of entertaining short stories, anecdotes, lucid explanations and straight-forward figures, this book challenges the perception that the world of physics is inaccessible to the non-expert.

Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world.

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science.

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples.

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.