Philosophy of science

This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects.

This thesis reveals how the feedback trap technique, developed to trap small objects for biophysical measurement, could be adapted for the quantitative study of the thermodynamic properties of small systems.

This monograph offers a fresh perspective on the applicability of mathematics in science.

This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher's system of pragmatic idealism.

This anthology opens new perspectives in the domain of history, philosophy, and science teaching research.

This book presents a new way to understand human-animal interactions.

This biography is a short yet comprehensive overview of the life of Meghnad Saha, the mastermind behind the frequently used Saha equations and a strong contributor to the foundation of science in India.

This book examines the ways in which attitudes toward astronomy in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and Uzbekistan have changed with the times.

In these engaging memoirs of a maverick, Theodore H.

This book traces the evolution of the ideas that eventually resulted in the elementary quantum theory in 1925/26.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his passing (in 2014), this special book features studies on Alexandre Koyre (1892-1964), one of the most influential historians of science of the 20th century, who re-evaluated prevalent thinking on the history and philosophy of science.

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.

This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines.

This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention.

The author investigates how to produce realistic and workable ethical codes or regulations in this rapidly developing field to address the immediate and realistic longer-term issues facing us.

The book proposes a systematic approach to big data collection, documentation and development of analytic procedures that foster collaboration on a large scale.

The main purpose of this book is to introduce a broader audience to emergence by illustrating how discoveries in the physical sciences have informed the ways we think about it.

This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz's dynamics project (c.

This book is a treatise on time and on background independence in physics.

This book is designed to make accessible to nonspecialists the still evolving concepts of quantum mechanics and the terminology in which these are expressed.

This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with the emergence of mechanistic philosophy, the new mixed mathematics, and the establishment of the experimental approach.

This book provides guidelines to key soil taxa in the deserts of Kuwait and guidance to associated procedures for laboratory analyses of soils, leading to land use planning on informed decisions.

This brief book provides an overview of the gravitational orbital evolution of few-body systems, in particular those consisting of three bodies.

This book assesses the origin of asteroids by analyzing the discovery of Vesta in 1807.

This volume explores Andrew Feenberg's work in critical theory.

This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi.

This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology.

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

This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries.

This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science.

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.

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

In this largely nontechnical book, eminent physicists and philosophers address the philosophical impact of recent advances in quantum physics.

This book reveals the French scientific contribution to the mathematical theory of nonlinear oscillations and its development.

This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at that point to rise above the eastern horizon.

Whether understood in a narrow sense as the popular works of a small number of (white male) authors, or as a larger more diffuse movement, twenty-first century scholars, journalists, and activists from all 'sides' in the atheism versus theism debate, have noted the emergence of a particular form of atheism frequently dubbed 'New Atheism'.

This book provides an analysis of the construction, diagnosis (as chaotic) and evaluation of models in chaos theory.

This monograph presents a new perspective on the history of general relativity.

This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face.

This book addresses a variety of topics within the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy, focusing especially on Archaeoastronomy in Sicily and the Mediterranean and Cultural Astronomy.

This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences.

This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938.

This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way.

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.

This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science.

This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature.

This book addresses a wide range of topics relating to the properties and behavior of condensed matter under extreme conditions such as intense magnetic and electric fields, high pressures, heat and cold, and mechanical stresses.

This book shows how Bohmian mechanics overcomes the need for a measurement postulate involving wave function collapse.

Chapters "e;Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate"e; and "e;Turing and the History of Computer Music"e; are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

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