Philosophy of Science

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 ...

If the laws of nature are fine-tuned for life, can we infer other universes with different laws? How could we even test such a theory without empir...

Following a long-term international collaboration between leaders in cosmology and the philosophy of science, this volume addresses foundational qu...

Carnap, Quine, and Putnam held that in our pursuit of truth we can do no better than to start in the middle, relying on already-established beliefs...

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deni...

Modern biological classification is based on the system developed by Linnaeus, and interpreted by Darwin as representing the tree of life. But desp...

Combining physics and philosophy, this is a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science which provides an up-to-date exam...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010. The author puts forward an objective account of what happened, a documentation of the t...

For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. Th...

This exploration of the newly emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal lawpresents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animal...

From self-help to medication, therapy, and cognitive neuroscience, this book traces the uses and limits of psychology. Offering a systematic explor...

Heilberufler, d.h. Ärzt*innen, Pflegende und Vertreter anderer Professionen, die in der Versorgung sterbender Menschen und deren Angehöriger tätig ...

Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyamas work, Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann argues that the tradi...

Theres a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish and asks, Hows the water? The younger fish are puzzled. Whats water? th...

Organism and Environment performs an examination into the way the contemporary life sciences are heralding a revolution of the most basic philosoph...

The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, ...

In her 1860 book Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, Elizabeth C. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and soci...

What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to sha...

What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to sha...

For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity--point to an existence tha...