Philosophy of science books

*The Principles of Science* by economist William Stanley Jevons was originally published in 1873 and provides and...  Read More >>

Dr. Rocchi's topical and ever-timely volume proposes a novel, exhaustive solution to this vibrant issue.Paolo Rocchi,...  Read More >>

How did we come to have a scientific culture -- one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones?...  Read More >>

Few questions have vexed humanity more than how did we come to exist? How can we reconcile the Big Bang Theory with...  Read More >>

Erhard Scheibe is one of the most outstanding German philosophers of science. This collection of 38 essays is intended...  Read More >>

Enhances the understanding of the theoretical framework and leading principles of boundedness. Aiming to bridge...  Read More >>

Conceptual analysis and phenomenology are the keys to describe and understand phenomena that are subject to scale...  Read More >>

Metaphor lies at the heart of the contemporary debate in aesthetics, semantics and the philosophy of science. This...  Read More >>

Foundational questions in logic, mathematics, computer science and physics are constant sources of epistemological...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of essays on various issues in philosophy of science, with emphasis on the foundations of...  Read More >>

In this book Martin Bunzl considers the prospects for a general and comprehensive account of explanation, given...  Read More >>

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Erwin Schrödinger is one of the greatest figures of theoretical physics, but there is another side to the man:...  Read More >>

However, being aware of some of the problematic sides and ambiguities of his views and of new developments which...  Read More >>

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Ideas for Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Natural Sciences (published in 1993 as volume 15 of this series) comprised...  Read More >>

A volume of essays on the themes of tradition, oral communication versus literal communication, Wittgenstein, and...  Read More >>

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Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen....  Read More >>

Agricultural biotechnology refers to a diverse set of industrial techniques used to produce genetically modified...  Read More >>

An introduction to philosophy of technology posing a wide range of philosophical questions relating to technology...  Read More >>

This book presents general relativity as a cornerstone of modern theoretical physics. It covers both classical general...  Read More >>

This book presents general relativity as a cornerstone of modern theoretical physics. It covers both classical general...  Read More >>

Tymieniecka's seminal idea of the `trans-actional' is explored in this collection of essays, which reveals a variety...  Read More >>

The task of the book is not to give a survey of the main theories on truth found in the literature. Moreover the...  Read More >>