Philosophy of Science

In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemol...

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay. Featuring seve...

This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objecti...

Engineering has always been a part of human life but has only recently become the subject matter of systematic philosophical inquiry. The Routledge...

Contemporary interest in Darwin rises from a general ideal of what Darwin’s books ought to contain: a theory of transformation of species by natura...

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneer...

Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices. Two prominent streams of thought sha...

This book offers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to scientific theories and the evolution of science and mathematics through the centuri...

Originally published in 1964. This lively, challenging book, written with enthusiasm, conviction and clarity, sets out to elucidate the shadowy con...

This interdisciplinary volume explores how posthumanist approaches can illuminate current issues in bioethics and considers the relevance of these ...

Through an examination of the work of great scholars from fields including philosophy, literature, philology, semiology, quantum physics, history, ...

Re-crafting Rationalization contributes to debates relating to the public understanding of science, regarding the conceptualization of the relation...

Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research re...

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.What ...

This book provides a reading of Newton’s argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton...

Checking is a very common concept for describing a subject’s epistemic goals and actions. Surprisingly, there has been no philosophical attention p...

This volume analyzes Karl Marx’s understanding of science and technology and how it is associated with his focus on the perspective of history and ...

This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a meta...

Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing metaphysical...

Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 e...

Philippe Rochat’s FINITUDE is a rumination on time and self-consciousness. It is built around the premise that finitude and separation form the hum...

In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Her...

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. According to the standard account, Descartes modifi...