Philosophy of science

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.

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.