Philosophy of Science

What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matte...

Wie die sechs Äste eines Schneekristalls in regelmäßigen Proportionen auf ihr gemeinsames Zentrum zulaufen, so deuten die sechs Beiträge dieses Buc...

Semantic theories for natural language assume many different kinds of objects, including (among many others) individuals, properties, events, degre...

Lawrence Krader (1919-1998) was an American philosopher and anthropologist. His enormous writings addressed a wide range of subjects in the fields ...

Semantic theories for natural language assume many different kinds of objects, including (among many others) individuals, properties, events, degre...

This volume gathers together for the first time the philosophical journal articles that appeared during Leibniz's lifetime under his name or which ...

This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern philosophy by highlighting Pierre Bayle's engagement with non-Christian sources. If our major ...

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the ...

Physarum polycephalum, also known more colloquially as 'the blob', 'acellular slime mould', or just 'slime mould', is a unicellular multinucleate p...

Physarum polycephalum, also known more colloquially as 'the blob', 'acellular slime mould', or just 'slime mould', is a unicellular multinucleate p...

This book addresses the flaws and fallacies in the grounds for atheism and theism flaws and fallacies that contaminate the arguments of non-believ...

This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity.Saul Kripke is reg...

This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. Examinin...

The aim of this text is to provide an account of the fundamentals of thermodynamics which is accessible at graduate level to physicists, mathematic...