Philosophy of Science

Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of the contemporary debate over divine providential action and the natur...

This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences. It considers not only...

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use. The book begins w...

Quantum field theory (QFT) provides the framework for many fundamental theories in modern physics, and over the last few years there has been growi...

This book develops new techniques in formal epistemology and applies them to the challenge of Cartesian skepticism. It introduces two formats of ep...

Neglected Perspectives on Science and Religion explores historical and contemporary relations between science and religion, providing new perspecti...

Richard Pettigrew offers an extended investigation into a particular way of justifying the rational principles that govern our credences (or degree...

Complexity has become a central topic in certain sectors of theoretical physics and chemistry (for example, in connection with nonlinearity and det...

Volume Two of the Science in the Making Series covers the scientific advancements of the day between 1850 and 1900 as reported in the Philosophical...

The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers. An inquiry into the ph...

Downward causation plays a fundamental role in many theories of metaphysics and philosophy of mind. It is strictly connected with many topics in ph...

Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining ...

In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemol...

This is the second selection of articles by Rupert Hall to be published by Variorum. Whereas the first volume focused on Newton and his work, the ...

First published in 1987. In Unfolding Meaning, the author, one of the most provocative and original thinkers of our time, argues that there are oth...

In this pioneering new book, Sandra Harding and Robert Figueroa bring together an important collection of original essays by leading philosophers e...

In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein’s celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about t...

Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells th...

Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alterna...

Neglected Perspectives on Science and Religion explores historical and contemporary relations between science and religion, providing new perspecti...

This is the first introductory textbook of its kind devoted to philosophy of psychiatry, offering a thorough and accessible investigation of the co...

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visio...

The years between 1700 and 1900 witnessed a fundamental transition in attitudes towards science, as earlier concepts of natural philosophy were rep...

Research Methodology: From Philosophy of Science to Research Design distinguishes itself from many other works devoted to research methodology and ...