Philosophy of Science

This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay a...

In late nineteenth-century America, Simon Newcomb was the nation's most celebrated scientist and - irascibly, doggedly, tirelessly - he made the mo...

Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in t...

It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs. Did the...

It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs. Did the...

Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In t...

Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In t...

Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory...

Rarely has the history or philosophy of mathematics been written about by mathematicians, and the analysis of mathematical texts themselves has bee...

First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpo...

With the poems written by winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2005, this coffee-table book will delight and ...

Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems in philosophy. Its adherents argue that there is no ...

This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his...

Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittg...

With the poems written by winner of the Posner Poetry Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers in 2005, this coffee-table book will delight and ...

The controversy over teaching evolution or creationism in American public schools offers a policy paradox. Two sets of values—science and democracy...

This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a w...

In the early 1600s, Francis Bacon could encompass all knowledge of both the physical and the metaphysical in a single term: natural philosophy. Ove...

Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both...

In this critically acclaimed book, first published in 1988 and now reprinted in paperback, scientist and author Paul Davies explains how recent sc...

In this timely study, Dawes defends the methodological naturalism of the sciences. Though religions offer what appear to be explanations of various...

The controversy over teaching evolution or creationism in American public schools offers a policy paradox. Two sets of values—science and democracy...

Originally published in 1989, Reclaiming Reality still provides the most accessible introduction to the increasingly influential multi-disciplinary...

How does science work? Making Truth: Metaphor in Science argues that most laypeople, and many scientists, do not have a clear understanding of how ...

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful me...

The book is a translation of the second edition of a much-used and research-based Chinese textbook. As a succinct and issue-based introduction to t...

Ever since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the discipline’s disposal have grown more and more more sophisticate...

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded in 1928 the Nobel pr...

Scientific realism is a central, long-standing, and hotly debated topic in philosophy of science. Debates about scientific realism concern the very...

Creativity explores the moral dimensions of creativity in science in a systematic and comprehensive way. A work of applied philosophy, professional...

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visio...

Fundamental Causation addresses issues in the metaphysics of deterministic singular causation, the metaphysics of events, property instances, facts...

In this concise text, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the "problems of philosophy". Plato Etc. reviews all the main areas of ...

This volume has two primary aims: to trace the traditions and changes in methods, concepts, and ideas that brought forth the logical empiricists’ p...

This Oxford Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics. It surveys new issues and the proble...

This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author’s original account of necessitarianism encourages a reexaminati...

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded in 1928 the Nobel pr...

Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientif...

Using classic texts in African philosophy, Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to realise new connections and...

Drawing on debates from traditional and postmodern thoughts on science and technology, the title builds a new theoretical framework to reconsider s...

Debates over relativism are as old as philosophy itself. Since the late nineteenth century, relativism has also been a controversial topic in many ...

In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemol...

This volume assembles cutting-edge scholarship on scientific understanding, scientific representation, and their delicate interplay. Featuring seve...

This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objecti...