Philosophy of Science

Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philo...

Wicked Philosophy. Philosophy of Science and Vision Development for Complex Problems provides an overview of the philosophy of the natural sciences...

How should thought and consciousness be understood within a view of the world as being through-and-through physical? Many philosophers have propose...

***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018***Get ready to make history better... on the second try.Imagine you are stranded in the past (your...

This book contains important technical innovations, including comparative measures for the testable content, depth, and unity of scientific theorie...

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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our...

The world, we are told, is made up of particles and forces. Evolution, impelled by the single purpose of survival, is guided by chance through natu...

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

One of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green tr...

An illustrated exploration of the fundamental connections between art and science, from an author who has lived in both worlds. In this thought-pr...

Deemed by Arthur C. Clarke to be the most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made, The World, the Flesh and the Devil is most famous f...

We know the universe has a history, but does it also have a story of self-creation to tell? Yes, in Roy R. Goulds account. He offers a compelling n...

The pursuit of science by professional scientists every day bears less and less resemblance to the perception of science by the general public. It ...

Scientific advances have transformed the world. However, science can sometimes get things wrong, and at times, disastrously so. Understanding the b...

Scientific advances have transformed the world. However, science can sometimes get things wrong, and at times, disastrously so. Understanding the b...

By power of thought alone, Albert Einstein gave us a fresh conception of the universe. He showed us that space and time are elastic - shrinking or ...

In the philosophical language of Aristotle and the Greeks of Antiquity, 'Physics' roughly translates as 'the order of nature', covering what we wou...

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...