Philosophy of science books

14002 books were found.

The Euclidean Programme

The Euclidean Programme

Author: A. C. Paseau (University of Oxford) ,  Wesley Wrigley (LSE - Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method)
ISBN: 9781009494403
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element shows that Euclidean Programme (EP) embodies a traditional sort of epistemological foundationalism...  Read More >>

Beyond the Brain: How the Mind and the Body Shape Each Other

Beyond the Brain: How the Mind and the Body Shape Each...

Author: Duoyi Fei
ISBN: 9789811995606
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Different from traditional research on the mind-body problem often discussed from an epistemological viewpoint, which...  Read More >>

Taking Responsibility for Climate Change

Taking Responsibility for Climate Change

Author: Säde Hormio
ISBN: 9783031517525
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book proposes that it is not only states and international bodies that have a responsibility to take action...  Read More >>

What Is Energy?: An Answer Based on the Evolution of a Concept

What Is Energy?: An Answer Based on the Evolution of...

Author: Ricardo Lopes Coelho
ISBN: 9783031518546
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book provides a solution to the problem with the energy concept. Although this is a problem for physicists...  Read More >>

The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics

The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics...

Author: Heinrich Päs
ISBN: 9781837730308
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Questions: Brief Books about Big Ideas

Questions: Brief Books about Big Ideas

Author: Pia Lauritzen
ISBN: 9781421447148
Format: Paperback
$22.99

These books present unique insights on a wide range of topics that entertain and enlighten readers with exciting...  Read More >>

The Metaphysics of Michael Polanyi: Toward a Post-Critical Platonism

The Metaphysics of Michael Polanyi: Toward a Post-Critical...

Author: Martin E. Turkis II
ISBN: 9783031412103
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book tells the story of how the Platonic vision of Michael Polanyi – the Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher...  Read More >>

Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics

Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics...

Author: Dr Matteo Mameli
ISBN: 9781350189751
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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The Impact and Value of Science

The Impact and Value of Science

Author: Douglas W. Hill
ISBN: 9781032201085
Format: Paperback
$62.99

First published in 1945, The Impact and Value of Science is both a plea and a challenge: a plea for more and more...  Read More >>

History of Rationalities: Ways of Thinking from Vico to Hacking and Beyond

History of Rationalities: Ways of Thinking from Vico...

Author: Luca Sciortino
ISBN: 9783031240065
Format: Paperback
$310.47

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Variational Principles in Physics

Variational Principles in Physics

Author: Jean-Louis Basdevant
ISBN: 9783031216947
Format: Paperback
$142.29

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The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities

The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences,...

Author: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009376013
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Fitness, natural selection, common ancestry, mutation, chance, taxonomy, and adaptation are central concepts in...  Read More >>

Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics

Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics...

Author: Dr Matteo Mameli
ISBN: 9781350189744
Format: Hardback
$130.00

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Optimality Justifications: New Foundations for Epistemology

Optimality Justifications: New Foundations for Epistemology...

Author: Prof Gerhard Schurz (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
ISBN: 9780198887546
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Optimality Justifications argues for a renewal of foundation-theoretic epistemology based on optimality justifications,...  Read More >>

Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making and Mechanism

Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-making...

Author: Yafeng Shan (Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science, Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
ISBN: 9780192863485
Format: Hardback
$188.95

This volume focuses on alternatives to the two main philosophical approaches to causation: mechanistic explanation,...  Read More >>

Humean Bodies and their Consequences

Humean Bodies and their Consequences

Author: Ruth Weintraub
ISBN: 9783031507984
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities

The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences,...

Author: Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
ISBN: 9781009376051
Format: Hardback
$168.19

Fitness, natural selection, common ancestry, mutation, chance, taxonomy, and adaptation are central concepts in...  Read More >>

Moral AI: And How We Get There

Moral AI: And How We Get There

Author: Jana Schaich Borg ,  Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
ISBN: 9780241454749
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality?...  Read More >>

Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr

Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory...

Author: Angelo Bassi ,  Sheldon Goldstein
ISBN: 9783031454332
Format: Hardback
$336.35

These topics are drawn from physics, mathematics, and philosophy of nature, and concern interpretations of quantum...  Read More >>

Global Rhetorics of Science

Global Rhetorics of Science

Author: Lynda C. Olman
ISBN: 9781438494425
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our toolkit for the collective...  Read More >>

The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes

The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other...

Author: Paul Halpern
ISBN: 9781541602175
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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