Philosophy of Science

Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating ba...

The Cavendish Laboratory is arguably the most famous physics laboratory in the world. Founded in 1874, it rapidly gained a leading international re...

First published in 1985, D. M. Armstrong's original work on what laws of nature are has continued to be influential in the areas of metaphysics and...

This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory per...

The advent of sensitive high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation and their successful interpretation in terms of t...

The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines...

Bringing together the latest scientific advances and some of the most enduring subtle philosophical puzzles and problems, this book collects origin...

Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Human...

The conceptualization of the vital force of living beings as a kind of breath and heat is at least as old as Homer. The assumptions that life and l...

What are the humanities for? The question has perhaps never seemed more urgent. While student numbers have grown in higher education, universities ...

Biological anthropology is a diverse field, with countless research methods and techniques in different sub-disciplines. This book takes a critical...

Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology draws research from psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology to explore the variety of explanatory approaches f...

The large-scale structure of the Universe is dominated by vast voids with galaxies clustered in knots, sheets, and filaments, forming a great 'cosm...

The biological functions debate is a perennial topic in the philosophy of science. In the first full-length account of the nature and importance of...

After the development of manifolds and algebraic varieties in the previous century, mathematicians and physicists have continued to advance concept...

Dispositionalism is the view that causal powers are among the irreducible properties of nature. It has long been among the core competing positions...

Who is the 'Devil'? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have...

This is the first single volume about the collapse theories of quantum mechanics, which is becoming a very active field of research in both physics...

Sets are central to mathematics and its foundations, but what are they? In this book Luca Incurvati provides a detailed examination of all the majo...

Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution is ...

Newton's Opticks is the most influential optical and experimental work of the eighteenth century. This final volume of The Optical Papers of Isaac ...

Is the universe fine-tuned for complexity, life, or something else? This comprehensive overview of fine-tuning arguments in physics, with contribut...

Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution is ...