Philosophy of Science

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...

This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in p...

Mass ideology is unique to modern society and rooted in early modern philosophy. Traditionally, knowledge had been viewed as resting on metaphysics...

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for t...

Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Scientism answers both question...

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

This book addresses the flaws and fallacies in the grounds for atheism and theism – flaws and fallacies that contaminate the arguments of non-belie...

This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together ...

Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique argues that conspiracy theories, including those that conflict with official accounts ...

Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and ...

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

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for t...

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. Whil...

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 ...

Critical and Clinical Cartographies rethinks medical and design pedagogies in the context of both the Affective and Digital Turns that are occurrin...

New concepts are constantly being introduced into our thinking. Conceptual Systems explores how these new concepts are entered into our systems alo...

In this collection of informal reminiscences, first published in 1975, Max Born has written an extraordinarily vivid account of his life and work, ...

This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucia...

Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplic...

Wittgenstein was centrally concerned with the puzzling nature of the mind, mathematics, morality and modality. He also developed innovative views a...

Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplic...

Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day. ...