Philosophy of Science

Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will fin...

Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival arguments that purport to show that data collected from osten...

An eyewitness to profound change affecting marine environments on the Newfoundland coast, Antony Adler argues that the history of our relationship ...

A renowned philosophers final work, illuminating how the logical empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual experiments in fo...

Philosophers debate the ideas and implications of one of the most important contemporary works in the philosophy of science, David Alberts Time and...

A leading bioethicist offers critical insights into the scientific, ethical, and political implications of human genome editing.Designer babies, on...

A distinguished philosopher offers a novel account of experience and reason, and develops our understanding of conscious experience and its relatio...

In this rigorous and beautifully researched volume, Milanich considers the tension between social and biological definitions of fatherhood, and sho...

Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe l...

*Out now: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information*__________In our deluge of information, it's getting h...

The lack of public support for climate change policies and refusals to vaccinate children are just two alarming illustrations of the impacts of dis...

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities,...

This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also...

This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also...

This book is dedicated to Einsteins personal and scientific relationships with Italy, which began as early as adolescence and continued over variou...

'A wondrous hymn to the scientific method, and some of its most profound discoveries, and what it can teach us all about how to live better and ric...

The phrase public intellectual is much bandied about. Just a few real heavyweights in the world merit the title, and Steven Weinberg is preeminent ...

Hilary Putnams unceasing self-criticism has led to the frequent changes of mind he is famous for, but his thinking is also marked by considerable c...

Far from being inferior to physics, the special sciences are crucial to understanding what is distinctive about scientific explanation: that descri...

This book offers a collective study of issues to do with experts and expertise, a topic of tremendous contemporary significance. The perspectives a...

The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of ...

Dieser Band enthält den zweiten Teil von Schlicks unveröffentlichten Arbeiten zur Naturphilosophie, vor allem seine Vorlesungen aus der Wiener Zeit...

The philosophy of chemistry has emerged in recent years as a new and autonomous field within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition. With the d...

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to law...

In Pragmatisms Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological de...

Margaret Cavendish (16231673) is a fascinating figure who is getting increasing attention by historians of philosophy these days, and for good reas...

Margaret Cavendish (16231673) is a fascinating figure who is getting increasing attention by historians of philosophy these days, and for good reas...

Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics - those who spread doubt about science - often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in th...

Is science getting at the truth? The sceptics - those who spread doubt about science - often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in th...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Why does scholarship on innovation fixate on certain classes of technology? Could our re...

From angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere. These chemical entities...