Philosophy of science

This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology.

This Element shows abductive reasoning is ubiquitous, especially in science.

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers.

This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements - epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual.

There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it.

Once we came out of the jungle and found time to think of something besides food, sex, and shelter, we confronted the fundamental questions: what are we?

Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician.

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries.

In his 2005 bestseller, The Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming scientific consensus has met immovable political obstacles.

Rhetoric and Incommensurability examines the complex relationships among rhetoric, philosophy, and science as they converge on the question of incommensurability, the notion jointly (though not collaboratively) introduced to science studies in 1962 by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend.

Whilst programming early PET and IBM computers, I thought our brains must be better designed.

Whilst programming early PET and IBM computers, I thought our brains must be better designed.

Whilst programming early PET and IBM computers, I thought our brains must be better designed.

This book represents a collection of papers from one of the founders of the new Philosophy of Chemistry.

Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna , psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham , chaos mathematician.

This book offers an exploration of the diverse perspectives shaping the future of artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting the influence of non-Western thinking in its development.

From the author of The Little Book of Mindfulness.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global scienceWe take the advance of science as given.

The fifth volume of the collected works of Professor M.

While Francis Bacon continues to be considered the 'father' of modern experimental science, his writings are no longer given close attention by most historians and philosophers of science, let alone by scientists themselves.

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 philosophy of Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is a hot topic in early modern philosophy.

After years of relative indifference, space exploration has caught the public's imagination once again.

An award-winning astronomer and physicists spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiositythe foundations of scienceto study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.

The Dutch bestseller Nominated for Le Prix Nicolas Bouvier'A masterclass in storytelling, exploring who we are and where we came from' Danielle Clode 'Gripping and brilliantly told, We Hominids deftly blends personal experience with a journalist's eye for a remarkable story' Mark McKennaWHO ARE WE?

This is a book for our time.

Now revised and updated--John Lennox's acclaimed method of reading and interpreting the first chapters of Genesis without discounting either science or Scripture.

Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of "e;progress"e; and "e;development,"e; whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized.

A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science.

Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge.

The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism.

The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism.

The book discusses the creative mental processes of the prehistoric and contemporaryartists, as well as of the archaeologists studying them from the perspective ofcognition and art.

The book discusses the creative mental processes of the prehistoric and contemporaryartists, as well as of the archaeologists studying them from the perspective ofcognition and art.

A beginner's book on astronomy, which should enable anyone to locate the various constellations.

First published in 1960, Energy and Man is a book that comprises five speeches, together with follow-up questions, that were given by business school graduates at a symposium held at Columbia University on November 4, 1959.

NO OTHER scientist has so aptly earned the title of "e;father"e; of his branch of science than Robert Koch.

In eastern spiritual traditions, samsara has long been associated with the cycle of birth and death.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?