Philosophy of Science

What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matte...

Wie die sechs Äste eines Schneekristalls in regelmäßigen Proportionen auf ihr gemeinsames Zentrum zulaufen, so deuten die sechs Beiträge dieses Buc...

Semantic theories for natural language assume many different kinds of objects, including (among many others) individuals, properties, events, degre...

Lawrence Krader (1919-1998) was an American philosopher and anthropologist. His enormous writings addressed a wide range of subjects in the fields ...

Semantic theories for natural language assume many different kinds of objects, including (among many others) individuals, properties, events, degre...

This volume gathers together for the first time the philosophical journal articles that appeared during Leibniz's lifetime under his name or which ...

This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern philosophy by highlighting Pierre Bayle's engagement with non-Christian sources. If our major ...

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the ...

Physarum polycephalum, also known more colloquially as 'the blob', 'acellular slime mould', or just 'slime mould', is a unicellular multinucleate p...

Physarum polycephalum, also known more colloquially as 'the blob', 'acellular slime mould', or just 'slime mould', is a unicellular multinucleate p...

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

This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity.Saul Kripke is reg...

This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. Examinin...

The aim of this text is to provide an account of the fundamentals of thermodynamics which is accessible at graduate level to physicists, mathematic...

This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical ach...

This volume is dedicated to questions about the nature and method of metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. Its chapters offer original invest...

Reframing Aristotles natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval...

Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of...

This open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening b...

This open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening b...

This book presents an elaborated argument for why functionalism, as well as other dematerialized and disembodied theories of mind, cant be right. I...

This volume offers a fresh exploration of the partswhole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extens...

In this illuminating guide to the criteria of rational theorizing, Michael Shepanski identifies, defends and applies W. V. Quines epistemic norms ...

A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive usJust as surge...

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophica...

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophica...

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted. ...

'Absolutely fascinating and has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett '...

Regional Perspectives in Bioethics illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from divers...

The awe-inspiring history of humanity told through our relationship with stars and the night sky.'Excellent . . . This books makes you rethink the ...

A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathema...

This book on the life and work of Josef Schächter, member of the Vienna Circle and Rabbi, covers all writings of his Viennese period until 1938. Th...

In this influential study of central issues in the philosophy of science, Paul Horwich elaborates on an important conception of probability, diagno...

A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences.   The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us ...

A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences.   The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us ...

Imagination is about far more than whether people think of themselves as creative or not. We use our imagination all the time in planning, anticipa...

'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A delight to read' - Ia...

This book challenges the prevailing, though often unacknowledged, view among most practicing scientists and philosophers that human free will is in...