Philosophy of Science

This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independen...

Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For ...

An exploration of the scientific mindset-such character virtues as curiosity, veracity, attentiveness, and humility to evidence-and its importance ...

Although computation and the science of physical systems would appear to be unrelated, there are a number of ways in which computational and physic...

Yah pustak ganit ke kai sutro ko ujaagar karti hai jo sadiyo tak Vedic grantho mein dabe pade the. Yah pustak vedo mein varnit solah ganitiy sutro ...

This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thi...

'What Fauber does well is humanize these four residents of the pantheon of science... The story is seldom less than fascinating. A readable, enjoya...

*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 5 o...

Addressing the technological opportunities and challenges of the 21st century, Introduction to Philosophy of Technology offers the most up-to-date ...

As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting in his own laboratory, he wa...

'Goethe called colour the deeds and sufferings of the light - victorious deeds when it pierces matter, and suffering when it endures the darkness i...

What is it to be rational? This is the fundamental subject of this book as long as we concern ourselves to thinking about the physical world. It us...

Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance product...

The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least ...

This book provides a unique introduction to the study of relationships between gender and biology, a core part of the feminist science research tra...

Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For A...

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed an...

Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it ...

Our understanding of life on earth is always developing. In this age of genetics and microbiology, Andreas Suchantke brings a lifetime of holistic ...

Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called the rainbow colours around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges sc...