Philosophy of science

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

This book offers new insights into truth, knowledge, and reality.

This book explores relationships and maps out intersections between discussions on causation in three scientific disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

This volume provides a broad perspective on the state of the art in the philosophy and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics.

This book presents the first comprehensive set of principles for an ethics of science communication.

Causality is central to understanding the mechanisms of nature: some event "e;A"e; is the cause of another event "e;B"e;.

On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the "e;turbulence problem"e;.

This is an international and interdisciplinary volume that provides a new look at the general background of the social sciences from a philosophical perspective and provides directions for methodology.

This book provides an introduction into the diversity of the environmental movement through great characters in the green sector.

This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking.

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

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

This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction.

This book explores various explanatory frameworks for paranormal encounters.

According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties - often called 'powers' - by means of which they are sources of change.

This book expands on the thought of Walter Benjamin by exploring the notion of modern mind, pointing to the mutual and ongoing feedback between mind and city-form.

Einstein once remarked "e;After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form.

"e;Tell me,"e; Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "e;why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?

This Brief presents an historical investigation into the reaction between ferric ions and thiocyanate ions, which has been viewed in different ways throughout the last two centuries.

This biography is a personal portrait of one of the best-known Dutch physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen.

Available here for the first time in English, "e;Reality and Its Order"e; is a remarkable philosophical text by Werner Heisenberg, the father of quantum mechanics and one of the leading scientists of the 20th century.

At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science.

This book presents the heritage of the Lvov-Warsaw School from both the historical and the philosophical perspective.

This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history.

The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz's scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz.

This book is an investigation of the ideological dimensions of the disciplinary discourses on science in line with the scholarly tradition of historical epistemology.

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

This authoritative biography addresses the life and work of the quantum physicist David Bohm.

This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist.

This book presents in full the work of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana and explains its impacts, which are still being felt.

This edited collection presents the latest cutting-edge research in the philosophy and cognitive science of temporal illusions.

This book presents the first English translation of the original French treatise "e;La Physique d'Einstein"e;  written by the young Georges Lemaitre in 1922, only six years after the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg's failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career.

This book argues that science and the arts are not two different cultures, but rather different manifestations of the same culture.

This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history.

This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the body is perceived; the second focuses on the perceptions that a particular natural environment is good or bad for human health and examines the reasons behind such characterizations ; the third examines the promotion, in history, of specific practices to take advantage of the health benefits, or avoid the harm, caused by certain environments and also efforts made to change environments supposed to be harmful to human health.

In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe.

The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and accidental generalizations (LAG).

Regarding his discoveries, Sir Isaac Newton famously said, "e;If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort.

This biography of the famous Soviet physicist Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (1889-1944), who became a Professor at Moscow State University in 1925 and an Academician (the highest scientific title in the USSR) in 1929, describes his contributions to both physics and technology.

This lucid and captivating book takes the reader back to the early history of all the sciences, starting from antiquity and ending roughly at the time of Newton - covering the period which can legitimately be called the "e;dawn"e; of the sciences.

This book addresses the morality of engaging in weapons research, a topic that has been neglected but which is extremely important.

This anthology aims to present the fundamental philosophical issues and tools required by the reflection within and upon geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) .

This volume presents a re-envisioning of the field of theoretical psychology and offers unique visions for its present and future from leaders of North American philosophical psychology.

This handbook is a 'one-stop shop' for current information, issues and challenges in the fields of research ethics and scientific integrity.

This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge.

This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics.

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world.

This innovative book proposes a unique and original perspective on the nature of the mind and how phenomenal consciousness may arise in a physical world.