Philosophy of science

We see objects in front of us, and experience a real material effect when we approach and touch them.

Auf faszinierende Weise erläutert Dieter Broers, dass wir in einem holografischen Universum leben, in dem an jedem Punkt die Information und die gestaltende Energie des Ganzen enthalten sind.

Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy.

This book presents contributions from an internal symposium organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Specola Vaticana, or Vatican Observatory, in the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

The role of experts and their expertise, in our personal and social lives, has taken centre stage in the debates about our post-COVID-19 world.

This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question.

This Element explores questions concerning idealizations in physics and discusses their implications.

Through an examination of the work of great scholars from fields including philosophy, literature, philology, semiology, quantum physics, history, and anthropology, this book argues that building on the contribution of non-economists can open new areas of reflection in economics beyond the usual schools of thought.

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

Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science and to a large extent his 'paradigm shift' view has replaced logical positivism and the philosophy of Karl Popper.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century.

This book, first published in 2006, evaluates Kuhn''s most influential ideas using theories developed by cognitive scientists.

This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism.

Creativity is fundamental to human experience.

Linnaeus' mature theodicy, his attempt to reconcile the suffering and evil of the world with the omnipotence and goodness of God, is presented in a condensed form in the final editions of his Systema Naturae (1758/68).

Although it is customary to credit Freud's self-analysis, it may be more accurate, Alexander Welsh argues, to say that psychoanalysis began when The Interpretation of Dreams was published in the last weeks of the nineteenth century.

Reissuing works originally published between 1937 and 1992, this collection of original texts addresses the philosophical realm of metaphysics, not only ontology but the philosophy of science, religion and morals.

The Church's New Front Door introduces Christians to the critically important concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era that will be dominated by powerful technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced robotics.

A multidisciplinary analysis of what we mean by setting sustainability as a goal for environmental management.

Editor James Fetzer presents an analytical and historical introduction and a comprehensive bibliography together with selections of many of Carl G.

Glaube und Theologie stehen seit den Anfangen des Christentums in produktiver Spannung zueinander, die die Reformation mit ihrem Prinzip des sola fide einerseits und mit ihrer Institutionalisierung einer schriftzentrierten akademischen Theologie andererseits in besonderer Weise aktualisiert hat.

This book explores the complexity of two philosophical traditions, extending from their origins to the current developments in neopragmatism.

The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion.

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Mit diesem Buch entwirrt Jean Bricmont die vermeintlichen Rätsel und Mysterien der Quantenmechanik und erklärt Laien die Grundprinzipien der Quantentheorie.

This book discusses the agency and responsibility of individuals in climate change, and argues that these are underemphasized, enabling individuals to maintain their consumptive lifestyles without having to accept moral responsibility for their luxury emissions.

Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities.

This Element adapts Aristotle''s ancient doctrine of hylomorphism for contemporary philosophy of biology to explain the unity of living organisms.

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

Latin America has been a place of radical political inspiration providing an alternative to the neoliberal model.

This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history.

Kant denied biology the status of proper science, yet his account of the organism has received much attention from both philosophical and historical perspectives.

The chapters in the book address the problem of reference as it relates to perception and to debates about realism.

This book deeply analyzes the theoretical roots of the development of global artificial intelligence ethics and AI governance, the ethical issues in AI application scenarios, and the discussion of artificial intelligence governance issues from a global perspective.

This book delves into the long-standing human aspiration to combine art and science.

Does science discredit the Bible, God, religious faith?

This volume, written by a highly cited author, presents the history of quantum theory together with open questions and remaining problems in terms of the plausibility of quantum chemistry and physics.

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

In the debate leading up to the EU referendum in the United Kingdom, the British politician Michael Gove declared that "e;people in this country have had enough of experts"e;.

This book is an empirically informed investigation of the philosophical problem of mental causation, and a philosophical investigation of the status of cognitive scientific generalisations.

Written by one of the top most statisticians with experience in diverse fields of applications of statistics, the book deals with the philosophical and methodological aspects of information technology, collection and analysis of data to provide insight into a problem, whether it is scientific research, policy making by government or decision making in our daily lives.

The present book contextualizes Du Chatelet's contribution to the philosophy of her time.

This conceptually rich and empirically grounded book draws upon expertise from a panel of emerging and established international scholars to explore the institutionalization and effect of multicultural education on a global scale.

REFLECTIONS ON SPACETIME - FOUNDATIONS, PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY During the academic year 1992/93, an interdisciplinary research group constituted itself at the Zentrum fUr interdisziplinare Forschung (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany, under the title 'Semantical Aspects of Spacetime Theories', in which philosophers and physicists worked on topics in the interpretation and history of relativity theory.

The classic work that shaped the thought of a generation with its powerful insights into the true nature of mind and reality.