Philosophy of Science

Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of science, yet there's been little reflection on its ...

This book is an introduction to professional ethics in chemistry. After a brief overview of ethical theory, it provides a detailed discussion of pr...

Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widesp...

Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title!PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS This is a brilliantly clear introduction (and indeed re...

Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues...

'A fantastic compendium of skeptical thinking and the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction.' Richard Wiseman, author 5...

The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ran...

In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics woul...

This book employs a philosophical approach to the new wounded (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempor...

This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification. Most philosophical conversations about kinds have ...

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how...

Bradford Skow presents an original defense of the 'block universe' theory of time, often said to be a theory according to which time does not pass....

Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing. - The Wall Street Journal A globetrotting historical adventure, told from the ...

How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last...

Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...

Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...

A former Wisconsin high school science teacher makes the case that how and why we teach science matters, especially now that its legitimacy is unde...

Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (incl...

Causation is one of the most controversial topics in philosophy. There is a wide range of philosophical accounts of causation, for example, the reg...

Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Pr...

What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent o...

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

The eleventh volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall covers the period from January 1869 to the end of February 1871 and contains 427 letters ...

Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests. Without causation, there would be no scientific understanding, explan...

Evolutionary change is usually incremental and continuous, but some increases in organizational complexity have been radical and divisive. Evolutio...

With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human b...

Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of scien...

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo...

Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysic...

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechani...

Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it. Yet bodily awareness h...