Philosophy of science

This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades.

This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development.

This book is an easy to read, yet comprehensive introduction to practical issues in research ethics and scientific integrity.

This book restores the concept of topology to its rhetorical roots to assist scholars who wish not just to criticize power dynamics, but also to invent alternatives.

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

This book presents the entire body of thought of Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), knowledge of which is essential if one wishes to understand and correctly interpret the age in which we live.

This monograph looks at causal nets from a philosophical point of view.

The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on finance, with a special focus on stock markets.

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking).

This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM).

Radio astronomy was born during the Second World War, but as this book explains, the history of early Dutch radio astronomy is in several respects rather anomalous in comparison to the development of radio astronomy in other countries.

This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed 'epistemic virtues' such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage.

This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel.

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 presents a comprehensive discussion on the characterization of vagueness in pictures.

The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology?

This book is the translated and commented autobiography of Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1909.

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

In this book the authors present new results on interpolation for nonmonotonic logics, abstract (function) independence, the Talmudic Kal Vachomer rule, and an equational solution of contrary-to-duty obligations.

This book deals with a topic that has been largely neglected by philosophers of science to date: the ability to refer and analyze in tandem.

This volume contains seventeen papers that were presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Societe Canadienne d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathematiques, held in Washington, D.

This investigation of time and space is motivated by gaps in our current understanding: by the lack of definitions, by our failure to appreciate the nature of these entities, by our inability to pin down their properties.

This volume features essays about and by Paul Benacerraf, whose ideas have circulated in the philosophical community since the early nineteen sixties, shaping key areas in the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and epistemology.

This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies.

The Structures of Practical Knowledge investigates the nature of practical knowledge - why, how, when and by whom it is codified, and once codified, how this knowledge is structured.

This volume reflects the 'philosophy of science in practice' approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research.

The book aims to introduce a research concept called "e;Numanities"e;, as one possible attempt to overcome the current scientific, social and institutional crisis of the humanities.

This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space or spacetime, substantivalism and relationism, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these physical theories.

This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced with a foreword by Sir Patrick Moore.

This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors.

In this compendium of essays, some of the world's leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline.

This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship.

This book discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution.

This book studies Hume's scepticism and its roots, context, and role in the philosopher's life.

This book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects.

In this essay collection, leading physicists, philosophers, and historians attempt to fill the empty theoretical ground in the foundations of information and address the related question of the limits to our knowledge of the world.

This book reflects on the significant and highly original scientific contributions of Hans Primas.

This is a book about the Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics and its measurement theory.

This book clarifies the interrelationship between optics, vision and perspective before the Classical Age, examining binocularity in particular.

Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity .

This thesis addresses the surprising features of zero-temperature statics and dynamics of several spin glass models, including correlations between soft spins that arise spontaneously during avalanches, and the discovery of localized states that involve the presence of two-level systems.

This comprehensive textbook is devoted to classical and quantum cosmology, with particular emphasis on modern approaches to quantum gravity and string theory and on their observational imprint.

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.

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "e;the necessary distance"e; has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications.

This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period.

This book about the philosophy of science is the second out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series.

This last one out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series focuses on various fields of social sciences and their connection to international politics.

This third out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series includes texts on psychology and international relations, causation, counterfactual analysis.

This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze.

In this study Arun Bala examines the implications that Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity holds for fields beyond physics.