Philosophy of Science

The publication in 1632 of Galileos Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the scientific re...

The twelfth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall contains 326 letters and covers the fifteen months of Tyndalls life from March 1871 throug...

Essences have been assigned important but controversial explanatory roles in philosophical, scientific, and social theorizing. Is it possible for t...

Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nin...

To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm whe...

In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Päs presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This...

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them ac...

Hayless point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplinesphysics, mathematics, biology, infor...

The credence framework is used by scientists and social scientists in almost all disciplines, including economics and political theory, and it unde...

The credence framework is used by scientists and social scientists in almost all disciplines, including economics and political theory, and it unde...

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deni...

Mounting failures of replication in social and biological sciences give a new urgency to critically appraising proposed reforms. This book pulls ba...

What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historical...

The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books, our movies-our imaginations-are o...

Dieses interdisziplinäre Handbuch rekonstruiert Optimierung als ein Phänomen, das konstitutiv in aktuelle Entwicklungen der Gegenwart eingeschriebe...

How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein...

René Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii ('Rules for the Direction of the Understanding') is his earliest surviving philosophical treatise, ...

René Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii ('Rules for the Direction of the Understanding') is his earliest surviving philosophical treatise, ...

For over a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophers--members of the Mind and Life Institute--have met regularly to explore the intersec...

Dieser Band versammelt Texte aus dem Nachlass Moritz Schlicks über den Begriff und die Geschichte der Philosophie. Ein großer Teil davon gehört zum...

The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of ...

Technology has extended its reach to the human body - not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for ...

In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Providing cr...

'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul D...

Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental ...

In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that arise in the context of cancer science and medicine. She b...

Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and ho...

Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of science, yet there's been little reflection on its ...

This book is an introduction to professional ethics in chemistry. After a brief overview of ethical theory, it provides a detailed discussion of pr...

Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widesp...

Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title!PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS This is a brilliantly clear introduction (and indeed re...