Philosophy of Science

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have noth...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their w...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications examines human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with contributions...

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

An astute study of Alfred Russel Wallaces path to natural theology.A spiritualist, libertarian socialist, womens rights advocate, and critic of Vic...

Whats to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the l...

Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other dise...

Can science fully comprehend the whole of the material universe? Not according to Joe Rosen. There is no question that advancements in science-esp...

A Financial Times and Scientific American Best Book of the Year.A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fu...

Philosophers and scientists both ask questions about what the world is like. How do these fields interact with one another? How should they? Natura...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science contains twenty-seven freshly written chapters to give the reader a panoramic introduction t...

Albert Einstein may be best known as the wire-haired whacky physicist who gave us the theory of relativity, but that's just one facet of this geniu...

Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the a...

In recent history, the arts and sciences have often been considered opposing fields of study, but a growing trend in drawing research is beginning ...

A rival to Isaac Newton in mathematics and physics, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz believed that our world--the best of all possible worlds--must be gov...

This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to...

This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of lost time by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth cen...

Although astrology was viewed with suspicion by the medieval church, it became a major area of inquiry for the renowned cardinal and scholar Pierre...