Philosophy of Science

Causation is one of the most controversial topics in philosophy. There is a wide range of philosophical accounts of causation, for example, the reg...

Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Pr...

What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have debated the extent o...

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

The eleventh volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall covers the period from January 1869 to the end of February 1871 and contains 427 letters ...

Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests. Without causation, there would be no scientific understanding, explan...

Evolutionary change is usually incremental and continuous, but some increases in organizational complexity have been radical and divisive. Evolutio...

With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human b...

Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of scien...

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo...

Are space and time fundamental features of our world or might they emerge from something else? The Foundation of Reality brings together metaphysic...

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechani...

Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it. Yet bodily awareness h...