Philosophy of science

Bradford Skow presents an original defense of the 'block universe' theory of time, often said to be a theory according to which time does not pass.

Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader is a compact overview of the history and philosophy of science that aims to introduce students to the groundwork of the field, and to stimulate innovative research.

Complexity theories gained prominence in the 1990s with a focus on self-organising and complex adaptive systems.

This book addresses the most important developments and debates in this exciting area of research for historians, philosophers of science and physicists.

Experimental philosophy has blossomed into a variety of philosophical fields including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of language.

Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific.

This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism.

Inside you lies a precise scientific instrument - the ability to observe Nature and recall past experiences.

The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view.

Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the "e;new philosophy of science"e; in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper.

A controversial challenge to current views of evolution, for the general reader.

Explores the extent to which Aristotle''s ethical treatises employ the concepts, methods, and practices developed in his ''scientific'' works.

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.

Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology promise to have major impacts on human health, wealth, and peace in the coming decades.

This Element establishes the principles of rationality for degrees of belief by appealing to their role in guiding decisions.

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Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined.

'Microphysicalism', the view that whole objects behave the way they do in virtue of the behaviour of their constituent parts, is an influential contemporary view with a long philosophical and scientific heritage.

In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world.

The philosophy of chemistry has emerged in recent years as a new and autonomous field within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition.

Ordinary language and scientific language enable us to speak about, in a singular way (using demonstratives and names), what we recognize not to exist: fictions, the contents of our hallucinations, abstract objects, and various idealized but nonexistent objects that our scientific theories are often couched in terms of.

Quantum physics is often perceived as a weird and abstract theory, which physicists must use in order to make correct predictions.

Science and Technology Ethics re-examines the ethics by which we live and asks the question: do we have in place the ethical guidelines through which we can incorporate these developments with the minimum of disruption and disaffection?

Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are 'causes' things we can experience, or are they concepts provided by our minds?

This is a refreshing account of psychological science that focuses on moral responsibility, collective commitment, and justice.

In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that is both forthright and rigorous.

Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others?

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).

Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905,at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown patent examiner in Bern.

A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading Musil scholars.

Provides a conceptual framework in which to understand the relationship between models and the parts of the world they represent.

Theories of Emotion is a philosophical introduction to the most influential theories of emotion of the past 60 years in philosophy, psychology, and biology.

Standard STEM courses, for all of their value, do not tend to include systematic lectures or treatment about the nature of the scientific method.

In By Parallel Reasoning Paul Bartha proposes a normative theory of analogical arguments and raises questions and proposes answers regarding (i.

This sequel to A Prehistory of Polymer Science begins with the Faraday Discussion of 1935 on Polymerization.

This Element shows abductive reasoning is ubiquitous, especially in science.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to all aspects of decision theory, now with new and updated discussions and over 140 exercises.

Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

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The role of values in scientific research has become an important topic of discussion in both scholarly and popular debates.

Like any goal-oriented procedure, experiment is subject to many kinds of failures.

If you read (or write) popular science, you might sometimes wonder: how do the authors manage to make subjects that once put you to sleep in science class both so entertaining and approachable?

A conceptually and mathematically rigorous analysis of the common cause principle and its status in quantum theory.

Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories, and concepts used by scientists.

What can social science, and demography in particular, reasonably expect to learn from biological information?

In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues.

There is widespread agreement that something must be done to combat anthropogenic climate change.