Philosophy of science

How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences?

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the connection between processes of neoliberalization and the advancement and transformation of technoscience.

Since the end of the Cold War, the human face of economics has gained renewed visibility and generated new conversations among economists and other social theorists.

Writing with characteristic bracing intelligence and clarity, Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance.

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

This collection responds to widespread, complex, and current environmental challenges by presenting eleven original essays on a new elemental-embodied approach in environmental humanities.

Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act.

Mauro Dorato charts pressing debates within the philosophy of science that centre around scientific expertise, access to knowledge, consensus, debate, and decision-making.

Radek Kundt compares the notion of evolution in cultural evolutionary theories with neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory to determine the value of the biological concept for studying culture.

This volume defends a novel approach to the philosophy of physics: it is the first book devoted to a comparative study of probability, causality, and propensity, and their various interrelations, within the context of contemporary physics -- particularly quantum and statistical physics.

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 reconnects health and thought, as the two were treated together in the seventeenth century, and by reuniting them, it adds a significant dimension to our historical understanding.

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert.

What is the role of scientists in society?

Quantum theory is widely regarded as one of the most successful theories in the history of science.

Introduces the topic of limited and changing awareness to those interested in the philosophy of decision-making and uncertain reasoning.

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the lighting.

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.

This book examines the scientific procedures devised by Ptolemy for investigating the structures underlying musical melody.

Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the difference between active and passive movement could be explained by the presence or absence of an intention in the mind of the agent.

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism.

Popper's theory of science has been widely misunderstood and poorly represented in the literature on philosophy of science, over the last three decades.

The search for a quantum theory of the gravitational field is one of the great open problems in theoretical physics.

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology.

First published in 1987.

Originally published in English in 1973.

This book argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer of science.

Philosophy in Reality offers a new vision of the relation between science and philosophy in the framework of a non-propositional logic of real processes, grounded in the physics of the real world.

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective.

Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe.

What kind of stuff is the world made of?

This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics - the grandiose theory that describes nature down to the submicroscopic level - was first formulated in Gottingen in 1925.

Comprehensive and in-depth study of this important text, the first book of Aristotle''s foundational treatise on natural philosophy.

'Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history' ScotsmanIn this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct areas of society: the social institutions that promote science, the sensibilities of scientists themselves and the goal of the scientific enterprise.

This edited volume represents a unique addition to the available literature on animal ethics, animal studies, and neuroethics.

This book traces the development of Kepler's ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil.

The Routledge Guidebook to Berkeley's Three Dialogues is an engaging introduction to the last of a trio of works that cemented Berkeley's position as one of the truly great philosophers of the western canon.

This book is based upon the collaborative efforts of the Ontogenetics Process Group (OPG) - an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, multi-national research group that began meeting in 2017 to explore new and innovative ways of thinking the problem of complexity in living, physical, and social systems outside the algorithmic models that have dominated paradigms of complexity to date.

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S.

John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of the century's most important theory, quantum mechanics.

The stated subject of these lecture courses given by Husserlbetween 1910 and 1918is 'reason, the word for the mental activities and accomplishments that govern knowledge, give it form and supply it with norms.

This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences.

The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science).

Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what's so great about science?

Provides a comprehensive exposition of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics and its compatibility with relativity.