Philosophy of Science

This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored ...

This book provides a unique exploration of the relationship between religious and scientific thought. Arguing that these two modes of thought are c...

This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on...

This collection of original essays aims to reinvigorate the debate surrounding philosophical realism in relation to philosophy of science, pragmati...

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the boo...

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

This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each sourc...

Powers and Capacities in Philosophy is designed to stake out an emerging, discipline-spanning neo-Aristotelian framework grounded in realism about ...

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could change with the current reform of the International...

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

This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a w...

Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot time talking ab...

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical pro...

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. Whil...

The influence of materialist ontology largely dominates philosophical and scientific discussions. However, there is a resurgent interest in alterna...

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

In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current ...

It can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came...

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind’s engagement with the world. It reviews the semantic and metaphysical debates around internalis...

This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together ...

This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological scie...

This volume brings Bergson’s key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic...

This is a handbook that shows the reader how to construct an intellectual pedigree. It is also a history of science monograph because the completed...