Philosophy of Science

The systematic study of the physical world had its orgins in philosophy; two-and-a-half millennia later, the scientific advances of the twentieth c...

This book addresses the argument in the history of the philosophy of science between the positivists and the anti-positivists. The author starts fr...

This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist. Two very different views are explored. According to one of these views (pr...

Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversi...

C. D. Broad (1887–1971) was a British philosopher who taught for many years at Trinity College, Cambridge. Possessing extremely wide-ranging intere...

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848, Prague) was a remarkable thinker and reformer far ahead of his time in many areas, including philosophy, theology, ethi...

In this new kind of entrée to contemporary epistemology, Kevin McCain presents fifty of the field’s most important puzzles, paradoxes, and thought ...

This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist. Two very different views are explored. According to one of these views (pr...

In this new book, Alister McGrath explores the relation of religion and the natural sciences, focusing specifically on Christianity as a case study.

In this challenging and provocative book, Steve Fuller contends that our continuing faith in science in the face of its actual history is best unde...

This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It desc...

Although the basis of modern biology is Cartesian, Descartes's theories of biology have been more often ridiculed than studied. Yet, Dennis Des Che...

The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication...

Metaphysics and science have a long but troubled relationship. In the twentieth century the Logical Positivists argued metaphysics was irrelevant a...

Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices. Throughout history, it has received a variety of meanings and of uses. This colle...

Metaphysics and science have a long but troubled relationship. In the twentieth century the Logical Positivists argued metaphysics was irrelevant a...

In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.D. Broad’s changing views of time and in so doing clarify the central disputes in...

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called "natural selection," a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproducti...

Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new e...

Science Without Numbers caused a stir in philosophy on its original publication in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the ontology of mathe...

"As we turn the page on eight years of cynical science policy in the White House, Science Next is exactly the book we need, with more provocative i...

Copernicus, Darwin, & Freud “Why is Darwin less the Copernicus than the Kepler of biology? What are good criteria for scientific revolutions? S...