Philosophy of Science

What are species? Are they objective features of the world? If so, what sort of features are they? Slater presents a novel approach to these questi...

Epidemiology is one of the fastest growing and increasingly important sciences. This thorough analysis lays out the conceptual foundations of epide...

Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-m...

In scholarly debates, as well as in everyday parlance, we tend to pull science and technology apart: science gives us theory, and technology applie...

Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new ...

Technoscientific developments often have far-reaching consequences, both negative and positive, for the public. Yet, because science has the author...

This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social li...

India has a strong and ancient tradition of astronomy, which seamlessly merges with the current activities in Astronomy and Astrophysics in the cou...

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind...

This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible ...

Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific mod...

This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sc...

In a broad interdisciplinary perspective, established experts and leading young scholars bring together important currents of Hegelianism in Europe...

The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that id...

This examination of a series of philosophical issues arising from the applicability of mathematics to science consists of scientifically-informed p...

After numerous catastrophic terrorist events in the first decades of the 21st century, many governments have attempted to mitigate extreme and viol...

The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find the theory of everything that combines all the forces of nature, including gravity. This book addr...

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...

Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other dise...