Philosophy of Science

The search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question has captivat...

The classic case for why government must support sciencewith a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from...

In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke ONeill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grap...

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the int...

How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unr...

What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of th...

In 1972, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis began collaborating on the Gaia hypothesis. They suggested that over geological time, life on Earth has h...

Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book pres...

Secrets of Infinity examines infinity as it has been studied sinceantiquity, beginning with the classical figures from Greece and Rome. In an enter...

We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Weve all heard the statistics: animal agricultur...

All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whe...

The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by our species today. The schism between us and t...

Simondon is a secret password among certain discussions within philosophy today. As a philosopher of technology, Simondons work has a place at the ...

We often instinctively feel that our lives would be better if we lived closer to nature. In this unique book, Craig Holdrege offers a specific, pra...

We are living through years of great importance, marked by the unstoppable evolution of technology, science and the information society. This book ...

This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.-Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Pr...

This is a classic work on the relationship between science and human qualities, made available again for today's readers.The authors ask questions ...

Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful...

To all who love the God with a 1000 names and respect science In the last quarter century, the academic field of Science and Theology (Religion) ...

Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary currency of nature. In recent years, however, the concept of information has gained importanc...

Observation and conceptual interpretation constitute the two major ways through which human beings engage the world. The World Observed/The World C...

Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality. But that was just the beginning. In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaime...

Over the coming decades, Artificial Intelligence will profoundly impact the way we live, work, wage war, play, seek a mate, educate our young, and ...

What are things made of?What is the sun?Is there really life on other planets? Why do bad things happen?Throughout history, people have invented fa...