Philosophy of Science

In the wake of The Making of a Counter Culture Theodore Roszak established himself as the pre-eminent critic of twentieth-century American societ...

Most Americans believe they possess an immaterial soul that will survive the death of the body. In sharp contrast, the current scientific consensus...

Virtual reality is genuine reality; thats the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of technophilosophy, David J. Chalmers gives a ...

The nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of popular science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals th...

This volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies (plants, animals...

Reflections on a Surprising Universe takes the reader beyond the headlines of the latest scientific breakthroughs, translating complicated topics i...

How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldvie...

The most important book of 2022. Dr. Robert Malone Desmets work on mass formation theory was brought to the worlds attention on The Joe Rogan Expe...

This collection of previously printed articles by W. Mattieu Williams is of interest to all readers who are sufficiently intelligent to prefer sobe...

Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues hav...

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveal...

Eight years ago, in an unprecedented intellectual endeavor, the Dalai Lama invited Emory University to integrate modern science into the education ...

In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mul...

In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, w...

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines ...

There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics...

A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global scienceWe take the advance of science as given. But how does science really work? ...

Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth...

A brand new edition of an internationally-renowned philosophy of science bestseller.Now well into its fourth decade, What is This Thing Called Scie...

Energy is at the heart of physics and of huge importance to society and yet no book exists specifically to explain it, and in simple terms. In trac...

Why is science so powerful? Why did it take so longtwo thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematicsfor the human race to star...

Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ide...

The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of ones own ...

We live in the Information Age, with billions of bytes of data just two swipes away. Yet how much of this is mis- or even disinformation? A lot of ...

Much of the recent confidence in the future of science and technology stems from advances in scientific visualisation. But is it right to assume th...

Coined barely two decades ago, the Anthropocene has become one of the most influential and controversial terms in environmental policy. Yet it rema...

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in ...

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get ...

A real-life thriller about a nation in crisis, and the controversial decisions its leaders made during the Covid-19 pandemic. First, the government...

A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds. ''Truly a book for our ti...

Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience, discourse and conceptualization of materials and their m...

Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transf...

Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaph...

Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLandas revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and...

Over the past two centuries we have witnessed a wholesale replacement of most of the previous methods of conducting both business and daily life wi...

Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. H...

This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independen...

Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For ...

An exploration of the scientific mindset-such character virtues as curiosity, veracity, attentiveness, and humility to evidence-and its importance ...

Although computation and the science of physical systems would appear to be unrelated, there are a number of ways in which computational and physic...