Philosophy of Science

The credence framework is used by scientists and social scientists in almost all disciplines, including economics and political theory, and it unde...

The credence framework is used by scientists and social scientists in almost all disciplines, including economics and political theory, and it unde...

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deni...

Mounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. This book pulls ba...

What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historical...

The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books, our movies-our imaginations-are o...

How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein...

René Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii ('Rules for the Direction of the Understanding') is his earliest surviving philosophical treatise, ...

René Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii ('Rules for the Direction of the Understanding') is his earliest surviving philosophical treatise, ...

For over a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophers--members of the Mind and Life Institute--have met regularly to explore the intersec...

The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of ...

Technology has extended its reach to the human body - not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for ...

In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Providing cr...

In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that arise in the context of cancer science and medicine. She b...

Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and ho...

Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of science, yet there's been little reflection on its ...

This book is an introduction to professional ethics in chemistry. After a brief overview of ethical theory, it provides a detailed discussion of pr...

Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widesp...

Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title!PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS This is a brilliantly clear introduction (and indeed re...

Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues...

'A fantastic compendium of skeptical thinking and the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction.' Richard Wiseman, author 5...

The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ran...

In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics woul...

This book employs a philosophical approach to the new wounded (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempor...

This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification. Most philosophical conversations about kinds have ...

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how...

Bradford Skow presents an original defense of the 'block universe' theory of time, often said to be a theory according to which time does not pass....

Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing. - The Wall Street Journal A globetrotting historical adventure, told from the ...

How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last...

Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...

Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...

A former Wisconsin high school science teacher makes the case that how and why we teach science matters, especially now that its legitimacy is unde...

Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (incl...