Philosophy of Science

Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the mu...

What are the objects of science? Are they just the things in our scientific experiments that are located in space and time? Or does science also re...

The programme of 'constructive axiomatics', promulgated by Hans Reichenbach in 1924, seeks to build up the architecture of our best theories of phy...

A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible. 'This is by far the...

Everyone Flows starts with an ancient and fundamental philosophical question: whether we live in a world of things, stable, autonomous, and with sh...

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference on ""Science, Pseudo-science and Society,"" sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the ...

This book investigates the relationships between modern mathematics and science (in particular, quantum mechanics) and the mode of theorizing that ...

The scientific study of animal minds is difficult. This book examines the most significant reasons this is so: seven challenges for the science to ...

This book follows the interplay between allegory and physics in Europe from the inception of the laws of thermodynamics in the 1850s to the cultura...

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was one of the greatest physicists and mathematicians the Netherlands has ever known. Einstein called him "a living work of ...

Bentley Glass, one of the world's leading investigators in the field of human genetics, is concerned with the moral absolutes and ethics involved i...

In this spirited and irreverent critique of Darwin’s long hold over our imagination, a distinguished philosopher of science makes the case that, in...

Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to...

To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet, science confirms that misuse of technology and environmental abuse place...

Just what is Einstein's Theory of Relativity? The Big Bang Theory? Curvature of Spacetime? What do astronomers mean when they talk of a 'flat unive...

Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous book...

With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, thi...

In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers—The Pittsburgh School—whose work is characterized by...

Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous book...

This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored ...

This book provides a unique exploration of the relationship between religious and scientific thought. Arguing that these two modes of thought are c...

This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on...

This collection of original essays aims to reinvigorate the debate surrounding philosophical realism in relation to philosophy of science, pragmati...

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the boo...

First published in 1931, this volume represents the culmination of twenty years’ of the study on the principles of science. Noticing a widespread c...

This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each sourc...

Powers and Capacities in Philosophy is designed to stake out an emerging, discipline-spanning neo-Aristotelian framework grounded in realism about ...

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could change with the current reform of the International...

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre’s ...

This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a w...

Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot time talking ab...

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical pro...

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. Whil...

The influence of materialist ontology largely dominates philosophical and scientific discussions. However, there is a resurgent interest in alterna...

This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethi...

In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current ...

It can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came...

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind’s engagement with the world. It reviews the semantic and metaphysical debates around internalis...

This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together ...

This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological scie...

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

This is a handbook that shows the reader how to construct an intellectual pedigree. It is also a history of science monograph because the completed...

Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the debates between moral s...

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise’s conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prosp...

The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters—written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguishe...

Many aspects of research activity in science are opaque to outsiders and this opacity infects how connections are made between science and other di...