Philosophy of Science

This volume brings Bergsons key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic ...

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to ...

Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way th...

We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very re...

Crossing the boundaries between 'continental' and 'analytic' philosophical approaches, this book proposes a naturalistic revision of the mathematic...

By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of huma...

Is it possible to approach quantum theory in a 'therapeutic' vein that sees its foundational problems as arising from mistaken conceptual presuppos...

Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology identifies, champions and vindicates a streamlined evolutionary psychology. It offers a new way of thinking that...

One of the most comprehensive and yet accessible texts on the market, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE COMPLETE: A TEXT ON TRADITIONAL PROBLEMS AND SCHOOLS OF...

Digitalism is a philosophical strategy that uses new computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful ways of thinking about b...

Would it be cool to see woolly mammoth alive one day? Disappeared species have always fascinated the human mind. A new discussion of using genomic ...

Markus Seidel provides a detailed critique of epistemic relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In addition to scrutinizing the main a...

Developmental biology is seemingly well understood, with development widely accepted as being a series of programmed changes through which an egg t...

Why do the best-known examples of evolutionary change involve the alteration of one kind of animal into another very similar one, like the evolutio...

This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms including fa...

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues the project that the influential anthropologist, philosopher, and science studies theorist Bruno L...

What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prev...

Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A phi...

The De incessu animalium forms an integral part of Aristotle's biological corpus but is one of the least studied Aristotelian works both by ancient...

This volume brings together a series of cutting-edge studies on significant controversies and prize essay contests of the German Enlightenment. It ...

This book offers a critique of a certain contemporary discourse in popular science that consists of (1) identifying the origins and therefore essen...

How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural ...

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...