Philosophy of Science

This book provides a comprehensive selection of Michael Faraday's writings, taken from all aspects of his life, intimate and public. It is designed...

Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience of the world, and yet they are also the most perplexing. Does time really flow, ...

The new discoveries in physics during the twentieth century have stimulated intense debate about their relevance to age-old theological questions. ...

This collection of essays, written on four continents by scientists, philosophers and humanists, was initially presented to Karl R. Popper on his s...

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one o...

"Relativity In our Time" is a book concerning the relevance of Einstein's theory to human relations in contemporary times. lt is physics and it is ...

In this original and important book, Harold Kincaid defends a view of the special sciences—all sciences outside physics—as autonomous and nonreduci...

Ganson offers new hope in this work for the defense of scientific realism by undermining powerful anti-realist objections and advocating an abandon...

Drawing from physics and philosophical debates, Ismael combines a set of essays on the time worn debate of symmetry from both fields.

Naked Science is about contested domains and includes different science cultures: physics, molecular biology, primatology, immunology, ecology, med...

Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observ...

Kant sought throughout his life to provide a philosophy adequate to the sciences of his time—especially Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics. I...

In this provocative work, noted social and economic theorist Graeme D. Snooks exposes fatal flaws in the foundations of the Darwinian theory of evo...

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark ta...

In Constructing the Beginning, Simon Locke offers a new approach to considering the enigma of creation science, using the perspective of discourse ...

Addressing fundamental questions about life, death and the universe, Science and the Spiritual Questexamines the ways in which scientists negotiate...

Stream of Consciousness is about the phenomenology of conscious experience. Barry Dainton shows us that stream of consciousness is not a mosaic of ...

The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed...

Complexity science has seriously challenged long-held views in the scientific community about how the world works. These ideas, particularly about ...

Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one o...

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark ta...

A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, tradit...

What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spirit...

This comprehensive anthology draws together writings by leading philosophers on the philosophy of science. Each section is prefaced by an introduct...