Philosophy of science

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "e;the mind-body problem"e;.

This edited collection examines the contemporary relevance of Lacan's 1965 essay "e;Science and Truth"e; to debates on science, psychoanalysis, ethics and truth.

This book offers the first comprehensive and authoritative text on the history of physics in Italy's industrial and financial capital, from the foundation of the University of Milan's Institute of Physics in 1924 up to the early 1960s, when it moved to its current location.

This book offers a unique perspective on one of the deepest questions about the world we live in: is reality multi-leveled, or can everything be reduced to some fundamental 'flat' level?

This book explores the philosophy and the foundations of quantum chemistry.

This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology.

Einstein's field equations of gravitation are a core element of his general theory of relativity.

This edited collection provides new perspectives on some metaphysical questions arising in quantum mechanics.

This book contains a collection of papers devoted to the problems of body, mind and soul in medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420.

This book provides unique and comprehensive conceptual explanations of quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics.

This book provides an accessible and up to date overview of the foundational issues about both emerging constructive understandings of the digital era and still hidden and ignored aspects that could instead be dramatically relevant in the future, in the process of a technological humanism.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the  European tradition of the twentieth century.

This book offers a phenomenological conception of experiential justification that seeks to clarify why certain experiences are a source of immediate justification and what role experiences play in gaining (scientific) knowledge.

The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures.

This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination.

This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West.

Computers are essential for the functioning of our society.

This book explores the methodological strategies for linking philosophy and neuroscience concerning the study of the conscious brain.

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 book represents a journey through the history of science in regards to the concept of time, specifically, the question as to whether it is absolute, relative, or irreversible.

This state-of-the-art book brings together the full range of issues that can inform care for patients experiencing the effects of concussion.

Cellular-molecular approach to evolution has led to radical changes in our understanding of biologic principles ranging from the Cell, to the Life Cycle, Development, Homeostasis, Senescence/Aging, Heterochrony, Pleiotropy, Phenotype, and perhaps the purpose of life itself.

This book provides a new all-round perspective on the life and work of Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) as a philosopher, historian, and sociologist.

The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science.

This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature.

Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics.

In this highly-interdisciplinary volume, we systematically study the role of metaphors and analogies in (mis)shaping our understanding of the world.

This book introduces a refreshing approach to twenty-first-century scientific approach in an age, which is also known as the Century of Complexity.

This book discusses fundamental topics on contemporary Ockhamism.

This book offers a considered yet entertaining reflection on the progress of modern scientific research.

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

Quantum theory is at the foundation of the physical description of our world.

What is God?

My dog understands me!

This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism's central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.

This monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy.

This book presents fresh insights into analogue quantum simulation.

Metaphysics has often held that laws of nature, if legitimate, must be time-independent.

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction in to the various theories of colour and how they developed over the centuries and millennia.

This book offers a thorough technical elaboration and philosophical defense of an objectivist informational interpretation of quantum mechanics according to which its novel content is located in its kinematical framework, that is, in how the theory describes systems independently of the specifics of their dynamics.

This edited collection casts light on central issues within contemporary philosophy of mathematics such as the realism/anti-realism dispute; the relationship between logic and metaphysics; and the question of whether mathematics is a science of objects or structures.

This book presents quantum theory as a theory based on new relationships among matter, thought, and experimental technology, as against those previously found in physics, relationships that also redefine those between mathematics and physics in quantum theory.

This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy.

This book explores the premise that a physical theory is an interpretation of the analytico-canonical formalism.

This interdisciplinary volume collects contributions from experts in their respective fields with as common theme diagrams.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead's organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices.

Approaching the settlement of our Moon from a practical perspective, this book is well suited for space program planners.

This volume is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) counted among the influential twentieth-century philosophers of science.