Philosophy of Science

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary...

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory proble...

What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts...

Philosophers have discussed the relationship of cause and effect from ancient times through our own. Prior to the work of Niels Bohr, these discuss...

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert m...

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert m...

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Inst...

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

During the second half of the twentieth century, economics exported its logic utility maximization to the analysis of several human activities or...

This book addresses the unprecedented convergence between the digital and the corporeal in the life sciences and turns to Foucaults biopolitics in ...

This book stresses the interrelatedness of knowledge by extricating models that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. For example, scienc...

Philosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Theory and Practice aims at a systematic investigation of a number of foundational issues ...

This book presents an interpretation of Kants Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kants philosophy together with those of t...

The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration a...

This book sheds light on important philosophical assumptions made by professionals working in clinical and research medicine. In doing so, it aims ...

This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature, philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabin...

This title was first published in 2000: This book addresses issues which are central in the philosophy of science, exploring a large and relevant l...

First published in 1997, this volume expands the analytical philosophical tradition in the face of parochial Anglo-American philosophical interests...

This title was first published in 2003:This book explores the problem of realism, both metaphysical and scientific. Renowned specialists in the fie...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of explanations as given in both natural and social sciences. It discusses models of expl...

Traditionally, philosophers have argued that epistemology is a normative discipline and therefore occupied with an a priori analysis of the necessa...