Philosophy of Science

The systematic study of the physical world had its orgins in philosophy; two-and-a-half millennia later, the scientific advances of the twentieth c...

This book addresses the argument in the history of the philosophy of science between the positivists and the anti-positivists. The author starts fr...

This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist. Two very different views are explored. According to one of these views (pr...

Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversi...

C. D. Broad (1887–1971) was a British philosopher who taught for many years at Trinity College, Cambridge. Possessing extremely wide-ranging intere...

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848, Prague) was a remarkable thinker and reformer far ahead of his time in many areas, including philosophy, theology, ethi...

In this new kind of entrée to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field’s most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought ...

This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist. Two very different views are explored. According to one of these views (pr...

In this new book, Alister McGrath explores the relation of religion and the natural sciences, focusing specifically on Christianity as a case study.

In this challenging and provocative book, Steve Fuller contends that our continuing faith in science in the face of its actual history is best unde...

This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It desc...

Although the basis of modern biology is Cartesian, Descartes's theories of biology have been more often ridiculed than studied. Yet, Dennis Des Che...

The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication...

Metaphysics and science have a long but troubled relationship. In the twentieth century the Logical Positivists argued metaphysics was irrelevant a...

Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices. Throughout history, it has received a variety of meanings and of uses. This colle...

Metaphysics and science have a long but troubled relationship. In the twentieth century the Logical Positivists argued metaphysics was irrelevant a...

In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.D. Broad’s changing views of time and in so doing clarify the central disputes in...

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproducti...

Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new e...

Science Without Numbers caused a stir in philosophy on its original publication in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the ontology of mathe...

"As we turn the page on eight years of cynical science policy in the White House, Science Next is exactly the book we need, with more provocative i...

Copernicus, Darwin, & Freud “Why is Darwin less the Copernicus than the Kepler of biology? What are good criteria for scientific revolutions? S...

It is often presumed that the laws of nature have special significance for scientific reasoning. But the laws' distinctive roles have proven notori...

The biological and social sciences often generalize causal conclusions from one context or location to others that may differ in some relevant resp...

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness?...

"Once again, Gerald Weissmann, with a firm and easy knowledge of everyone who matters from Auden to Zola, bridges the space between science and the...

The incredible achievements of modern scientific theories lead most of us to embrace scientific realism: the view that our best theories offer us a...

In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of ph...

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness?...

Biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson, and physicists Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Steven Weinberg have become pu...

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty ...

Why did an atheist like Carl Sagan talk so much about God? Why does NASA climatologist James Hansen plead with us in his recent book not to waste "...

Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot time talking ab...

Explanations are important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical contexts. But what is an...

In the last decade, science in the United States has become increasingly politicized, as government officials have been accused of manipulating, di...

Why did an atheist like Carl Sagan talk so much about God? Why does NASA climatologist James Hansen plead with us in his recent book not to waste "...

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City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communic...

This book examines sociobiology and evolution from the scientific and philosophical perspectives. Both sociobiology and evolution are areas of mode...

It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value fr...

What makes humans cognitively unique, and why are we unique in these ways? Armin W. Schulz suggests that the singularity of our ways of thinking is...

This book outlines the contours of the various debates on quantum theory, and presents an interpretation of it which, while metaphysically realist,...

The imagination, our capacity to entertain thoughts and ideas "in the mind's eye," is indispensable in science as elsewhere in human life. Indeed, ...

Closely examining some of our most deeply held notions about the role of science, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher engages the heated debat...

Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring fea...

Batterman examines a form of scientific reasoning called asymptotic reasoning, which he argues has important consequences for our understanding of ...