Philosophy of Science

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark ta...

A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, tradit...

What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spirit...

This comprehensive anthology draws together writings by leading philosophers on the philosophy of science. Each section is prefaced by an introduct...

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of gr...

Vinciane Despret is a Belgian philosopher whose work proposes new questions and approaches to human-animal relations. Of central importance to her ...

First published in 2003. In this concisely argued, short new book, well-known philosopher Naomi Zack explores the scientific and philosophical prob...

This comprehensive anthology draws together writings by leading philosophers on the philosophy of science. Each section is prefaced by an introduct...

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scient...

Can science explain everything? Brian Ridley, a physicist himself, explores this question and more in this compelling exploration of both the scope...

Wittgenstein criticised prevailing attitudes toward the sciences. The target of his criticisms was ‘scientism’: what he described as ‘the overestim...

A clear, original and systematic introduction to philosophy of science which examines the theories of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend before p...

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving ...

The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination o...

Current Controversies in Values and Science asks ten philosophers to debate five questions (two philosophers per debate) that are driving contempor...

Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to thi...

Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they...

First published in 2003. In this concisely argued, short new book, well-known philosopher Naomi Zack explores the scientific and philosophical prob...

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving ...

Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they...

Can science explain everything? Brian Ridley, a physicist himself, explores this question and more in this compelling exploration of both the scope...

Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscri...

While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where meta...

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible introduction to the philosophy of space and time. Ray considers in detail the centra...

The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines. ...

Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells th...

In the endless debate about the Two Cultures no book until this attempted to provide a selection of scientific writing on specific themes to stimul...

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science asks twelve philosophers to debate six questions that are driving contemporary work in this area of ...

Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy and science and his works contributed to shaping Western intellect...

Most of us believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is "God's will," "karma", or "fate," we want to believe that an overarching purpose ...

What do modern academic economists do? What currently is mainstream economics? What is neoclassical economics? And how about heterodox economics? H...

This title was first published in 2002.Science and humanity are usually seen as very different: the sciences of nature aim at explanations whereas ...

Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our polit...

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally regarded as the founder of pragmatism, and one of the greatest ever American philosophers. Peirce i...

History and Philosophy of Biology summarizes the major philosophical ideas that have attended the development of science in general and of biology ...

Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our polit...

Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics is a conceptual analysis of one the most prominent and exciting new areas of ph...

This volume brings together the lectures presented at the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop held from June 2 to 3, 2005, in Ghent, Belgium. The a...

Originally published in 1971. Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes...

Originally published in 1986. This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It p...

Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alterna...

Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of warrant statements – statements which indicated something about the grounds on behalf of so...

Originally published in 1935. J G Crowther has chosen five of the greatest scientists of the nineteenth century – Davy, Faraday, Clerk-Maxwell, Jou...

Simulation-Based Engineering and Science (SBE&S) cuts across disciplines, showing tremendous promise in areas from storm prediction and climate...

Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against ...

The discourse and practice of science are deeply connected to explicit and implicit narratives of nature. However, nature has been understood in di...

Originally published in 1975. The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an abstract level by...

Originally published in 1974. Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast i...