Philosophy of Science

This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored ...

The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of one’s own...

Wittgenstein famously remarked in 1923, "Darwin's theory has no more relevance for philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Yet to...

A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth co...

Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the devel...

Analyses of Theories and Methods of Physics and Psychology was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make ...

This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's m...

Early practitioners of the social studies of science turned their attention away from questions of institutionalization, which had tended to emphas...

Everyone Flows starts with an ancient and fundamental philosophical question: whether we live in a world of things, stable, autonomous, and with sh...

In this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "mo...

Analyzes the reasons why biologists have referred to and continue to refer to plasticity.   Plasticity has become an important topic in biology, wi...

This collection of seventeen essays explores the implications of quantum cosmology regarding God’s action in the world. The result is a profound co...

Analyzes the reasons why biologists have referred to and continue to refer to plasticity.   Plasticity has become an important topic in biology, wi...

The genealogy and function of epigenesis—the theory that organisms generate themselves under the guidance of a formative drive—provides a unique me...

This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellars’s notion of ideal truth.Sellars adopts two attractive ideas about truth: the pragmatist i...

First published in 1972, The Hope of Progress presents collection of essays and lectures dealing with the history of scientific ideas and the impac...

The 67 chapters of this book describe and analyse the development of Western science from 1500 to the present day. Divided into two major sections ...

Physicists think they have discovered the top quark. Biologists believe in evolution. But what precisely constitutes evidence for such claims, and ...

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...

This book is a collection of essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published ...

While philosophers have been interested in animals since ancient times, in the last few decades the subject of animal minds has emerged as a major ...

This text looks at the influence on understanding, insight, expertise and the advance of knowledge of the forms of representation we use. It addres...

Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contributio...

This book is a result from a collective study on philosophy of scientific practice (PSP), which began around 2002 and still ongoing. There is an ap...

Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guide to the major twentieth-century French and German philosophical thinking on science. A c...

This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought. Principles are...

What does it mean to understand something? What types of understanding can be distinguished? Is understanding always provided by explanations? And ...

This book explores the relationship between a scientifically updated Aristotelian philosophy of nature and a scientifically engaged theology of nat...