Philosophy of Science

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge and Moral Reality and Moral Progress. Both essays...

This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's The Republic has influenced Western phi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philoso...

** An FT Book of the Year and Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize for Sustainability**The Darkness Manifesto urges us to cherish darkness for t...

Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern. Within philosophy, the E...

The problem of quantum gravity is often viewed as the most pressing unresolved problem of modern physics: our theories of spacetime and matter, des...

Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the boot...

There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a scientific theory? It presents a range of options - from theorie...

Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the sciences, this kind of reason...

How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what ...

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious...

How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values--and subsequently moral, political, and social ones-...

In All Talked Out J.D. Trout exemplifies the power of science in the hands of a philosopher, and the result is a timely and urgent argument about t...

It's standard in epistemology to approach questions about knowledge and rational belief using idealized, simplified models. But while the practice ...

'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warb...

Darwin has long been hailed as forefather to behavioural science, especially nowadays, with the growing popularity of evolutionary psychologies. Ye...

This book is a result from a collective study on philosophy of scientific practice (PSP), which began around 2002 and still ongoing. There is an ap...

Fundamental Causation addresses issues in the metaphysics of deterministic singular causation, the metaphysics of events, property instances, facts...

In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets a...

Robert John Ackermann deals decisively with the problem of relativism that has plagued post-empiricist philosophy of science. Recognizing that theo...

The Anthropocene defines the here-and-now time period on Earth of indelible (and possibly irreversible) human disturbance to the natural world, fro...

The Anthropocene defines the here-and-now time period on Earth of indelible (and possibly irreversible) human disturbance to the natural world, fro...

Since antiquity, opposed concepts such a s t he One and the Many, the Finite and the Infinite, and the Absolute and the Relative, have been a drivi...

Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social r...

Presenting a ground-breaking view of technology trends and their impact on our society, Artificial Era contributes to the current debate about the ...

The final book in Santayana''s masterwork of philosophical naturalism argues that science crowns the life of reason. Santayana''s Life of Reason...

Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly read...

Quantum theory underpins much of modern physics and its implications draw the attention of industry, academia and public funding agencies. However ...

This book integrates philosophy of science, data acquisition methods, and statistical modeling techniques to present readers with a forward-thinkin...

Martin Harwit, author of the influential book Cosmic Discovery, asks key questions about the scope of observational astronomy. Humans have long sou...

This book integrates philosophy of science, data acquisition methods, and statistical modeling techniques to present readers with a forward-thinkin...

Do we need to reconsider scientific methodology in light of modern physics? Has the traditional scientific method become outdated, does it need to ...

When making decisions, people naturally face uncertainty about the potential consequences of their actions due in part to limits in their capacity ...

What is a language? What do scientific grammars tell us about the structure of individual languages and human language in general? What kind of sci...

What are the features of a good scientific theory? Samuel Schindler's book revisits this classical question in the philosophy of science and develo...

Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philo...

Wicked Philosophy. Philosophy of Science and Vision Development for Complex Problems provides an overview of the philosophy of the natural sciences...