Philosophy of science

What methodology should philosophers follow?

Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study.

This new edition of Thomas Kuhn's Revolution marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kuhn's most influential work.

This highly readable book is a collection of critical papers on Otto Neurath (1882-1945).

What makes time interesting and what is time?

This collection offers the first comprehensive and definitive account of Martin Heidegger's philosophy of technology.

The volume offers a unique collection of articles on pediatric neuroenhancement from an international and multidisciplinary perspective.

Social epistemology has been flourishing in recent years, expanding and making connections with political philosophy, virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy.

A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking.

Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (including mountains, trees, humans, and sculptures, and their characteristic properties) which depend on, yet are distinct from and distinctively efficacious with respect to, lower-level physical configurations and features.

This book examines the ethical responsibilities of engineers and scientists in light of new advances in science with a distinct reflection on quantum mechanics.

A modern understanding of the world is unthinkable without science, but what exactly is it?

The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010.

Originally published in 1968.

Epistemology, or "e;the theory of knowledge,"e; is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience.

Between 1994 and 1999, I had the pleasure of lecturing Special and General Relativity in the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns.

Does time exist, or is it an illusion?

Our lives, states of health, relationships, behaviour, experiences of the natural world, and the technologies that shape our contemporary existence are subject to a superfluity of competing, multi-faceted and sometimes incompatible explanations.

In the present book, Pauline Phemister argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate reality as a plurality of mind-like immaterial beings and for whom physical bodies are ultimately unreal and our perceptions of them illusory.

Realism is an enlightening story, a tale which enriches our experience and makes it more intelligible.

This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself.

Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology s impact on society and our lives.

A collection of new essays on Ernst Mach''s scientific and philosophical thought by leading Mach scholars.

This is the first book-length introductory analysis of the concept of a created scientific controversy.

This book provides keys to decrypt current political debates on the environment in light of the theories that support them, and provides tools to better understand and manage environmental conflicts and promote environmentally friendly behaviour.

This book outlines a new conception of the cyborg in terms of consciousness as the parallax gap between physical and digital worlds.

First published in 1956 The Language of Modern Physics gives a complete account of the concepts both of classical and quantum physics.

This book fills a major gap in the philosophy of biology by examining central philosophical issues in microbiology.

This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood.

Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date volume on the conceptual and philosophical problems related to the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

The twentieth century is the period during which the history of Greek mathematics reached its greatest acme.

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge?

Pillars of Evolution provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution.

Jesuit engagement with natural philosophy during the late 16th and early 17th centuries transformed the status of the mathematical disciplines and propelled members of the Order into key areas of controversy in relation to Aristotelianism.

This book is an argument for moving beyond culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity as the necessary foundation of an authentic self.

By asking how well theological views of human nature stand up to the discoveries of modern science, Alan Olding re-opens the question of whether the "e;design"e; argument for the existence of God is fatally undermined.

For readers concerned about the roots of the public mistrust of science, get the book that Publishers Weekly says is "e;an ardent appraisal of what ails the scientific establishment.

As a growing area of research, the philosophy of time is increasingly relevant to different areas of philosophy and even other disciplines.

Originally published in 1961.

The theory of relativity convinced many philosophers that space and time are fundamentally alike, and that they are mere aspects of a more fundamental space-time.

Technology and animals often serve as the boundaries by which we define the human.

Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology.

Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight.

In the last fifteen years a controversial new theory of the origins of biological complexity and the nature of the universe has been fomenting bitter debates in education and science policy across North America, Europe, and Australia.

This book conducts a historico-critical investigation into a proposal to transform philosophy in the early twentieth century.

In this beautifully written book, David E.

Over the course of the last thirty years, the investigation of objects at the nano scale has rocketed.

Into the short compass of this book Professor Graetz has succeeded in compressing an eminently readable survey of the directions in which the atomic theory, as accepted in the nineteenth century, has been extended by the remarkable and almost revolutionary physical investigations and discoveries of the two decades preceding the book's original publication in 1923.