Philosophy of Science

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of gr...

Vinciane Despret is a Belgian philosopher whose work proposes new questions and approaches to human-animal relations. Of central importance to her ...

First published in 2003. In this concisely argued, short new book, well-known philosopher Naomi Zack explores the scientific and philosophical prob...

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

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scient...

Can science explain everything? Brian Ridley, a physicist himself, explores this question and more in this compelling exploration of both the scope...

Wittgenstein criticised prevailing attitudes toward the sciences. The target of his criticisms was ‘scientism’: what he described as ‘the overestim...

A clear, original and systematic introduction to philosophy of science which examines the theories of Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend before p...

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving ...

The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination o...

Current Controversies in Values and Science asks ten philosophers to debate five questions (two philosophers per debate) that are driving contempor...

Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to thi...

Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they...

First published in 2003. In this concisely argued, short new book, well-known philosopher Naomi Zack explores the scientific and philosophical prob...

Until the end of the eighteenth century, almost everyone believed that the empirical world of science could produce evidence for a wise and loving ...

Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they...

Can science explain everything? Brian Ridley, a physicist himself, explores this question and more in this compelling exploration of both the scope...

Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscri...

While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where meta...

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible introduction to the philosophy of space and time. Ray considers in detail the centra...

The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines. ...

Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells th...

In the endless debate about the Two Cultures no book until this attempted to provide a selection of scientific writing on specific themes to stimul...

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science asks twelve philosophers to debate six questions that are driving contemporary work in this area of ...