Philosophy of Science

by the Academies of the two countries to the Italian-Swiss University of Lugano for the two-day-Symposium. The question of the meaning of truth is...

This book draws on advances in computational neuroscience and theoretical biology to provide a clear and accessible agentive account of the nature ...

'A delight' Dara O Briain'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill Gates'A winning blend of education and anecdote' Clive Cookson, FTWhy ...

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his ...

ENGHow did pre-modern scholars conceive of contagion and the transmissibility of disease in general? Infectious Ideas answers this question by look...

Lochlann Jains debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between w...

Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation perfor...

Cyberthreats are among the most critical issues facing the world today. Cybersecurity Management draws on case studies to analyze cybercrime at the...

The Estonian philosopher of science Rein Vihalemm (19382015) left two prominent and fruitful philosophical-methodological legacies that continue to...

Einstein introduced quantum entanglement in 1935 and referred to it as spooky actions at a distance because it seemed to conflict with his theory o...

Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legac...

From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Ari...

*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 2 o...

This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those inter...

The two volumes in this advanced textbook present results, proof methods, and translations of motivational and philosophical considerations to form...

This examination of stem cell biology from a philosophy of science perspective clarifies the field's central concept, the stem cell, as well as its...

What are the unequivocal causes of a scientific revolution? In The Origin of Scientific Revolutions, Rinat Nugayev proposes an ideal model that str...

The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics provides a critical overview of the ethics of human subjects research within multiple disciplines and fields...

This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to s...

When it comes to climate change, the greatest difficulty we face is that we do not know the likely degree of change or its cost, which means that e...

A book to get the neurons firing. As a passionate game player I loved reading a neuroscientists perspective on the role games have played in humani...