Philosophy of Science

Written for general readers of all religious backgrounds, Reason and Wonder introduces some of the most fruitful discussions now taking place betwe...

Using the insights of Owen Barfield (1898-1997) as his starting point, Linderman investigates the nature of consciousness, the Enlightenment, scien...

''Reading it will change the way you think about the universe'' Sean CarrollIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmente...

*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment *2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology For readers ...

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prev...

Modern science, with its causal and quantitative methods, has provided the basis for our technologically-driven society. But the technological prow...

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...

A book that finally demystifies Newtons experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newtons alchemical papers surfaced at a Sothebys auction in 1936, the quan...

This book is about the already present supremacy of technology in the contemporary world. As we speak, the mind is being substituted by thinking ma...

When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theorie...

Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in...

The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, ...

To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet, science confirms that misuse of technology and environmental abuse place...

In recent years philosophers of science have urged that many scientific theories are extremely useful and successful despite being internally incon...

What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book articulates and defends an original answer to this import...

Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the repeated application of single, fundamental ontology. Th...

Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This volume argues that medical n...

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize...

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists'' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evi...

Mark Wilson presents a series of explorations of our strategies for understanding the world. Physics avoidance refers to the fact that we frequentl...

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the ligh...

In the conventional wisdom the scientist is pictured as a data gatherer, methodically working towards general scientific laws by objective research...

This is a rare book on a rare topic: it is about 'action' and the Principle of Least Action. A surprisingly well-kept secret, these ideas are at th...

John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of...

Can you Count the Clouds? asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament...

Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For A...

Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory. This book is his long-awaited presentatio...

In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of certainty in the human worldview, as quantum uncertainty and lingu...

This new anthology includes both classic and contemporary readings on the methods and scope of science. Jeffrey Foss depicts science in a broadly h...

In his newest work, distinguished philosopher Jude P. Dougherty challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to...

Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significan...

In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified ...