Philosophy of science

This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand.

The book is published as part of the "e;PRIN 2017 The Dark side of the Law"e;.

The story of Hubble and Humason is one for the ages-and in particular, the Cosmic Age.

This book discusses a link between statistical theory and quantum theory based on the concept of epistemic processes.

This book offers a readable introduction to the main aspects of thought experimenting in philosophy and science (together with related imaginative activities in mathematics and linguistics).

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.

This book, by an eminent scientist and philosopher, provides strong evidence for the claim that language is a general principle of Nature, rooted exclusively in physical and chemical laws.

This book offers a fresh perspective on some of the central experimental and theoretical works that laid the foundations for today's quantum mechanics: It traces the theoretical and mathematical development of the hypotheses that put forward to explain puzzling experimental results; it also examines their interconnections and how they together evolved into modern quantum theory.

This book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences.

This collection of essays examines  the key achievements and likely developments in the area of automated reasoning.

This book presents a collection of novel contributions and reviews by renowned researchers in the foundations of quantum physics, quantum optics, and neutron physics.

The relationship between geography and philosophy is still largely in need of being explored.

This book is the first systematic and historical account of the Vienna Circle that deals with the relation of logical empiricists with religion as well as theology.

This book analyzes metaphysical consequences of the quantum theory of many particles with respect to the fundamental notions of identity, individuality and discernibility.

This book provides a well-grounded account of the methodology of physics, the structure of physical knowledge and theories, and in particular of the relations between theory and experience.

The birth of a completely new branch of observational astronomy is a rare and exciting occurrence.

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This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism.

This book presents the latest research, conducted by leading philosophers and scientists from various fields, on the topic of top-down causation.

This book examines what seems to be the basic challenge in neuroscience today: understanding how experience generated by the human brain is related to the physical world we live in.

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true.

This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time.

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction.

This edited book provides an in-depth examination of the implications of neuroscience for the criminal justice system.

This book, Philosophy of Chemistry, is dedicated to some of the general principles of philosophy of chemistry, the special branch of philosophy of science.

This book describes the historical development of the principle of stationary action from  the 17th to the 20th centuries.

This volume is a collation of postgraduate fieldwork experiences in social research that provides a platform for early career researchers (ECRs) to be open about the hidden labour of doing postgraduate fieldwork.

This book offers a scientific whistleblower's perspective on current implementation of federal research misconduct regulations.

The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution.

In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis.

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism.

This edited volume explores the intersections of the human, nonhuman, transhuman, and posthuman from a phenomenological perspective.

This book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and psychology.

More than 300 years ago, Isaac Newton created a mathematical model of the solar system that predicted the existence of a yet unknown planet: Neptune.

The purpose of this work is to critically assess Errol E.

This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics.

This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking's work.

This book gives a short presentation of the triad philosophy-physics-technology against the background of the common origin in ancient times.

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.

With the aid of entertaining short stories, anecdotes, lucid explanations and straight-forward figures, this book challenges the perception that the world of physics is inaccessible to the non-expert.

This book brings together about 2,500 quotations on various topics of interest to scientists and engineers, including students of STEM disciplines.

The monograph aims to present the recent scientific knowledge on body sensations, i.

This book addresses current issues in the neuroscience and ethics of dementia care, including philosophical as well as ethical legal, and social issues (ELSIs), issues in clinical, institutional, and private care-giving, and international perspectives on dementia and care innovations.

This edited volume contains 24 different research papers by members of the History and Heritage Working Group of the Southeast Asian Astronomy Network.

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.

There has recently been considerable discussion of a "e;replication crisis"e; in some areas of science.

This book examines the most important Czech women philosophers and scientists.

This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society.