Philosophy of Science

Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality. He also developed innovative views a...

Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplic...

Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day. ...

This book tells the story of how the very idea of two cultures-the so-called divorce between science and the humanities-was a creation of the mod...

Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the debates between moral s...

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physic...

This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative “laboratory,” a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions a...

This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative “laboratory,” a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions a...

In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical...

This book asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and taught. It suggests that if economists today are serious about emancipation...

This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored ...

The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of one’s own...

Wittgenstein famously remarked in 1923, "Darwin's theory has no more relevance for philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Yet to...

A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth co...

Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the devel...

Analyses of Theories and Methods of Physics and Psychology was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make ...

This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's m...

Early practitioners of the social studies of science turned their attention away from questions of institutionalization, which had tended to emphas...

Everyone Flows starts with an ancient and fundamental philosophical question: whether we live in a world of things, stable, autonomous, and with sh...

In this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "mo...