Philosophy of Science

This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What...

This book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the late eighteenth-century Habsb...

This Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing s...

This book explores the emergence of ecological consciousness in the work of contemporary experimental filmmakers. If it can be said that experiment...

Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend...

Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion. The book discusses the condition...

First published in 1931, this volume represents the culmination of twenty years of the study on the principles of science. Noticing a widespread cr...

Originally published in 1957, this book offers a challenging intellectual experience to the reader who wishes to understand the broad historical tr...

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyres u...

This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an arra...

Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses in detail the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspec...

Biological diversity - or biodiversity - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grow...

This title was first published in 2002.Science and humanity are usually seen as very different: the sciences of nature aim at explanations whereas ...

The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein had a long ...

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

Suppressed for centuries, the ideas of French philosopher Émilie Du Châtelet are ever relevant today... Just as the Enlightenment was gaining mome...

The book offers an exciting, non-technical intellectual journey around applying feedback control to emerging and managing local and global crises, ...

This book contains a selection of texts written by the Rabbi and Vienna Circle member Josef Schächter after his emigration to Palestine/Israel. The...

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or economy of nature) from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. Th...

This Atlas of the History of Modern Science functions as a textbook to help the student, by means of diagrams and flowcharts, to better understand ...

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the b...

Published in 1999: This book is about Alchemy, Philosophy and Science during the 17th century written by the author originally published in 1650.

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary...

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory proble...

What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts...

Philosophers have discussed the relationship of cause and effect from ancient times through our own. Prior to the work of Niels Bohr, these discuss...

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert m...

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert m...

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Inst...

Downward causation plays a fundamental role in many theories of metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It is strictly connected with many topics in ph...

During the second half of the twentieth century, economics exported its logic utility maximization to the analysis of several human activities or...

This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucaults biopolitics in ...

This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. For example, scienc...

Philosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Theory and Practice aims at a systematic investigation of a number of foundational issues ...