Philosophy of Science

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 ...

This book presents an interpretation of Kants Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kants philosophy together with those of t...

The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration a...

This book sheds light on important philosophical assumptions made by professionals working in clinical and research medicine. In doing so, it aims ...

This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature, philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabin...

This title was first published in 2000: This book addresses issues which are central in the philosophy of science, exploring a large and relevant l...

First published in 1997, this volume expands the analytical philosophical tradition in the face of parochial Anglo-American philosophical interests...

This title was first published in 2003:This book explores the problem of realism, both metaphysical and scientific. Renowned specialists in the fie...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences. It discusses models of expl...

Traditionally, philosophers have argued that epistemology is a normative discipline and therefore occupied with an a priori analysis of the necessa...

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho a...

This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethi...

Global warming and, even more recently, the COVID pandemic have brought into public focus our dependence on science and the lens with which it cons...

Control is a key ingredient of scientific experimentation; arguably, an uncontrolled intervention or manipulation is not even a genuine experiment....

Control is a key ingredient of scientific experimentation; arguably, an uncontrolled intervention or manipulation is not even a genuine experiment....

The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various inte...

From the Nobel Prizewinning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people ...

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the phys...

Hans Reichenbach (18911953) was a formidable figure in early-twentieth-century philosophy of science. Educated in Germany, he was influential in es...

This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.e., 2-valued) logic, a logic of truth and falsity, is an inco...

Brain organoids are small stem cell-derived, self-organizing models of specific brain regions that offer researchers new ways to study the human br...

The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality. It formulates distinct questi...

Over the last fifty years, scholars in biology, psychology, anthropology, and cognate fields have substantially enriched traditional philosophical ...

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history. The ancient idea t...

This volume assembles supporters and critics of situated cognition research to evaluate the intricacies, prerequisites, possibilities, and scope of...

With the publication of chatGPT in December 2022, a new era of artificial dialogue systems and chatbots has emerged. Many established thinkers and ...

One of today's most controversial and heated issues is whether or not the conflict between science and religion can be reconciled. In Science and R...

First published in 1962 The Origins of Science tries to explain scientific thought from its historical and psychological origins. The depth of psyc...

This open access book advances a modest defence of technological utopias. While technological utopianism is not devoid of risks and elitism, their ...

A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain worldWonder and awe lie at the heart of lifes most profound questi...

This book offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabends take on topics such as realism, empiricism, pluralism, materialism, and incommens...

First published in 1956 The Language of Modern Physics gives a complete account of the concepts both of classical and quantum physics. The first pa...

What if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regardi...

What if judgment returned to the craft of magic? How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regardi...