Philosophy of Science

Does neuroscience have anything to say about religious belief or the existence of God? Some have tried to answer this question, but, in doing so, m...

A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.  This book contains the...

In Knowing Science, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the concept of knowledg...

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this ...

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate ...

The search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question has captivat...

The classic case for why government must support sciencewith a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from...

In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke ONeill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grap...

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the int...

How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unr...

What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of th...

In 1972, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis began collaborating on the Gaia hypothesis. They suggested that over geological time, life on Earth has h...

Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book pres...

Secrets of Infinity examines infinity as it has been studied sinceantiquity, beginning with the classical figures from Greece and Rome. In an enter...

We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Weve all heard the statistics: animal agricultur...

All people desire to know. We want to not only know what has happened, but also why it happened, how it happened, whether it will happen again, whe...