Philosophy of Science

To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet, science confirms that misuse of technology and environmental abuse place...

In recent years philosophers of science have urged that many scientific theories are extremely useful and successful despite being internally incon...

What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book articulates and defends an original answer to this import...

Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the repeated application of single, fundamental ontology. Th...

Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This volume argues that medical n...

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize...

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists'' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evi...

Mark Wilson presents a series of explorations of our strategies for understanding the world. Physics avoidance refers to the fact that we frequentl...

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the ligh...

In the conventional wisdom the scientist is pictured as a data gatherer, methodically working towards general scientific laws by objective research...

This is a rare book on a rare topic: it is about 'action' and the Principle of Least Action. A surprisingly well-kept secret, these ideas are at th...

John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of...

Can you Count the Clouds? asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament...

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...

Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory. This book is his long-awaited presentatio...

In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of certainty in the human worldview, as quantum uncertainty and lingu...

This new anthology includes both classic and contemporary readings on the methods and scope of science. Jeffrey Foss depicts science in a broadly h...

In his newest work, distinguished philosopher Jude P. Dougherty challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science that reduce it to...

Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significan...

In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified ...