Philosophy of Science

Imagination is about far more than whether people think of themselves as creative or not. We use our imagination all the time in planning, anticipa...

'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A delight to read' - Ia...

This book challenges the prevailing, though often unacknowledged, view among most practicing scientists and philosophers that human free will is in...

'Absolutely fascinating and has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett '...

'Absolutely fascinating and has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett '...

This book focuses on a critical reexamination of two prominent categories used in modern historiography of biology the eclipse of Darwinism and th...

This book makes a distinctive contribution by providing a novel defence of psychiatric diagnoses. It defends psychiatric diagnoses by portraying th...

'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A delight to read' - Ia...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

We often think of the mind as an inner world. Once, this inner world might have been a spirit or soul - a ghost in the machine, in Gilbert Ryle's m...

Trust is a central pillar of the scientific enterprise. Much work in the philosophy of science can be seen as coping with the problem of establishi...

Kant denied biology the status of proper science, yet his account of the organism has received much attention from both philosophical and historica...

This book takes a philosophical look at traditional technological tools such as hammers and drills as well as the modern: autonomous cars, ChatGPT,...

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the re...

This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic,...

This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question. Why did modern science emerge in Europe, but not in any of the advanced non-European ...

Dieses Buch bietet einen systematischen Überblick zum Zeitbegriff aus der Sicht der Philosophie, der Naturwissenschaft und der Alltagspsychologie.

To understand modern science, it is essential to recognize that many of the most fundamental scientific principles are drawn from the knowledge of ...

A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? An...