Philosophy of Science

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fa...

A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biologythe divide between germ and somatic cellswith far-reaching ethical and public policy...

Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating questions raised by the possibility of time travel. This volume explores a wide-range of puzzles su...

In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the ...

Explores the wealth of evidence for the reality of the biofield. Examining the wealth of evidence supporting the reality of the human biofield, Eri...

The definitive account of the great Bohr-Einstein debate and its continuing legacy In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about th...

Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that ...

Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species...

This book tells the story of how the Platonic vision of Michael Polanyi the Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher bridges the gap between spe...

A short but engaging look at how questions shape our thinking.Why do we ask questions? In Questions, Pia Lauritzen explores the philosophy behind q...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is swiftly reshaping global regulatory frameworks, and current discussions on privacy have been thrust into the limeli...

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

Scientific literacy is an essential aspect of any undergraduate education. Recipes for Science responds to this need by providing an accessible int...

Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. Yet Plato and Aristotle did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. D...

Aus der Sicht der Neurobiologie regiert im Kopf das neuronale Geschehen. Doch was wissen die Hirnforscher genau über die Mechanismen des Hirngesche...

This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authoriti...

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergsons Lévolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers ...

â . . . a standard source for anyone wanting to immerse himself in the topic of scientific change, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Hanson and Polanyi, all are ...

Als Romancier und Publizist als auch Philosoph und Wissenschaftspolitiker hat Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi in der Zeit um 1800 eine bedeutende Wirkung...