Philosophy of Science

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 ...

This book, first published in 1938, is based upon the Muirhead lectures on political philosophy delivered in the University of Birmingham in Januar...

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

Here is an unprecedented collection of twenty freewheeling and revealing interviews with major players in the ongoing--and increasingly heated--deb...

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

Isaac Newton's Scientific Method examines Newton's argument for universal gravity and his application of it to resolve the problem of deciding betw...

Summarising the most novel facts and theories which were coming into prominence at the time, particularly those which had not yet been incorporated...

This book, first published in 1938, is based on the Muirhead Lectures given at Birmingham University in February and March of 1937. The first half ...

Following on from Roy Bhaskar’s first two books, A Realist Theory of Science and The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emanci...

In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the f...

Since the publication of Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science in 1975, critical realism has been evolved as one of the new developments in the...

Joining the ancient debate over the roles of reason and appetite in the moral mind, In Praise of Desire takes the side of appetite. The book makes ...

A Second Genesis enquires why nature is intelligible. The fast growth of technology and deeper understanding of the humanities have provided signif...

Science aims to describe reality, to predict the future and to supply us with technology. But it also aims to explain and understand the world. Wha...

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from l...

Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames s...

In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.D. Broad’s changing views of time and in so doing clarify the central disputes in...

Popper’s Critical Rationalism presents Popper’s views on science, knowledge, and inquiry, and examines the significance and tenability of these in ...

Originally published in 1952. This book is a critical survey of the views of scientific inference that have been developed since the end of World W...

Public health is a particular area of medical practice that raises a series of philosophical issues that require urgent discussion. The philosophy ...

Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of warrant statements – statements which indicated something about the grounds on behalf of so...