Philosophy of Science

Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the debates between moral s...

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise’s conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prosp...

The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters—written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguishe...

Many aspects of research activity in science are opaque to outsiders and this opacity infects how connections are made between science and other di...

Many aspects of research activity in science are opaque to outsiders and this opacity infects how connections are made between science and other di...

Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality. He also developed innovative views a...

What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered ...

Putting Properties First considers the metaphysics of natural science. It develops and defends a contemporary metaphysical theory of natural modali...

We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects ...

This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its founder, Nishida Kita...

Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformati...

One of the pillars of modern science, statistical mechanics, owes much to one man, the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906). As a result...

This book offers a bright and learned contribution on the famous German Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. Centering on his work Wissenschaftstheorie ...

This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical ach...

Tracing the evolution of economic ideas in the context of the economic history and economic policy issues in Greece, this book examines the history...

For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and n...

The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas ...

The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas ...

`Fluid, readable and accessible ... I found the overall quality of the book to be excellent. It provides an overview of major (and preceding) devel...

For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and n...

The contributors and editor of this work are to be commended for their successful efforts in delineating many of the concerns current within educat...