Philosophy of Science

What is the nature of scientific progress and what makes it possible? When we look back at the scientific theories of the past and compare them to ...

Originally published in 1961. Michael Polanyi was a polymath who influenced economics and the sciences as well as philosophy. His wide-ranging rese...

When natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they em...

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity...

The 67 chapters of this book describe and analyse the development of Western science from 1500 to the present day. Divided into two major sections ...

Geoffrey of Aspall, who died in 1287 and was master of Arts by 1262, was active at Oxford in the years 1255 to1265. He wrote commentaries on severa...

Written in an engaging dialogue style, Smith and Oaklander cover metaphysical topics from a student's perspective and introduce key concepts throug...

As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area o...

This book is a study of relativism as a dominant intellectual preoccupation of our time. Relativism asks how we are to find a way out of intractabl...

Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism....

Containing the proceedings of the symposium held by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ni...

As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Rudolph Carnap's aim was to bring about a "unified science" by applying a method of logical analysis to t...

Science and Human Values was originally a lecture by Jacob Bronowski at MIT in 1953. Published five years later, it opens unforgettably with Bronow...

Containing the proceedings of the symposium held by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ni...

In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgres...

Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects ...

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity...

Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by ...

Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained a...

Compiling twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences, this remarkable book complements Robert Rosen's groun...

Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It...

Scientific pluralism is an issue at the forefront of philosophy of science. This landmark work addresses the question, Can pluralism be advanced as...

This work seeks to show that science is rooted not just in conversation but in disagreement, doubt and uncertainty. Mara Beller argues that it is p...