Philosophy of Science

Spanning centuries of philosophical and environmental thought, Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Second Editio...

Steven French suggests a radical new approach to the understanding of quantum physics, derived from Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. In 1939 ...

Steven French suggests a radical new approach to the understanding of quantum physics, derived from Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. In 1939 ...

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge and Moral Reality and Moral Progress. Both essays...

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge and Moral Reality and Moral Progress. Both essays...

This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge and Moral Reality and Moral Progress. Both essays...

This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's The Republic has influenced Western phi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philoso...

** An FT Book of the Year and Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize for Sustainability**The Darkness Manifesto urges us to cherish darkness for t...

Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern. Within philosophy, the E...

The problem of quantum gravity is often viewed as the most pressing unresolved problem of modern physics: our theories of spacetime and matter, des...

Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the boot...

There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a scientific theory? It presents a range of options - from theorie...

Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous. Not only are rigorous inferences to the best explanation used pervasively in the sciences, this kind of reason...

How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond what ...

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious...

How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values--and subsequently moral, political, and social ones-...

In All Talked Out J.D. Trout exemplifies the power of science in the hands of a philosopher, and the result is a timely and urgent argument about t...

It's standard in epistemology to approach questions about knowledge and rational belief using idealized, simplified models. But while the practice ...

'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warb...

Darwin has long been hailed as forefather to behavioural science, especially nowadays, with the growing popularity of evolutionary psychologies. Ye...