Philosophy of Science

In this thought-provoking book, distinguished legal scholar Joseph Vining traces the complex roots of brutal twentieth-century human experimentatio...

Molecular biology as a distinct scientific discipline had its origins in chemistry and physical biochemistry, gradually emerging in the period betw...

From the biographies on Galileo and Dorothy Hodgkin to the discussions chronicling the change of science from simply a tool of learning to a major ...

Contemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exist about fifteen billion years ago with a cataclysmic exp...

The idea that persons or animals possess properties of two types, physical and mental, or psychological and cognitive, inevitably raises the questi...

In this wide-ranging philosophical work, Koons takes on two powerful dogmas: anti-realism and materialism. In doing so, Koons develops an efficient...

An ancient doctor who advocated the therapeutic benefits of wine and passive exercise was bound to be successful. However, Asclepiades of Bithynia ...

* WINNER OF THE 1988 LAKATOS AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE * This book concentrates on research done during t...

This challenging and innovative book examines the processes involved in the birth and development of new scientific ideas. The author has searched ...

The idea that persons or animals possess properties of two types, physical and mental, or psychological and cognitive, inevitably raises the questi...

In both literature and film, mutants, androids, and aliens have long functioned as humanity’s Other—nonhuman bodies serving as surrogates to explor...

This book’s core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence – sometimes called ‘artificial general i...

Dazzlingly original but deeply engaged with the philosophical currents of her time, Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was one of the most ingenious an...

A bright and timely book that celebrates the value of the human mindAI is at the forefront of everyone's minds: from students and artists, to CEO's...

This book’s core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence – sometimes called ‘artificial general i...

Dazzlingly original but deeply engaged with the philosophical currents of her time, Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was one of the most ingenious an...

Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a co...

This English translation of Michel Serres' 1982 book Genèse captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes t...

First Published in 1970. All but two of the papers constituting this fifth volume of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science were delive...

Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a co...

In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in s...

In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in s...

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

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

Marco Sgarbi tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Aristotelian scientific doctrines on key figu...

Examining the Psychological Foundations of Science and Morality is a progressive text that explores the relationship between psychology, science an...

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

This volume is dedicated to questions about the nature and method of metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. Its chapters offer original invest...

In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the ...

This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kind...

This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical ...

'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligen...

Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to offer students the full breadth of philos...

The nature of space and time is one of the most fascinating and fundamental philosophical issues which presently engages at the deepest level with ...

This book proposes a new way of reading modern Western philosophers in the Indian context. It questions the colonial methodology, or the practice o...

This book proposes a new way of reading modern Western philosophers in the Indian context. It questions the colonial methodology, or the practice o...

Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once held to be compa...

Examining the Psychological Foundations of Science and Morality is a progressive text that explores the relationship between psychology, science an...

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translat...

Winner of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlesThis book surveys and examines the most famous philosophical arguments against building a mach...