Philosophy of science books

In recent years, however, this three-fold identity has been challenged: there are, it is argued, causal explanations...  Read More >>

Cognitive science, in Howard Gardner's words, has a relatively short history but a very long past.  Read More >>

We see objects in front of us, and experience a real material effect when we approach and touch them. Thus, we conclude...  Read More >>

The fundamental question of whether, or in what sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the...  Read More >>

This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging...  Read More >>

In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of...  Read More >>

This work is divided into two parts. Part II consists of a book-length essay by Burks in which he lays out his philosophy...  Read More >>

This book is primarily about the methodological questions involved in attempts to understand two of the most peculiar...  Read More >>

This book is for people who have a genuine interest in understanding nature. The book shows that matter has many...  Read More >>

Within the last ten years, the interest of historians and philosophers of science in the epistemological writings...  Read More >>

Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University...  Read More >>

By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men­ tion of philosophy lectures given by...  Read More >>

For some time now the philosophy of science has been undergoing a major transfor­ mation. It began when the 'received...  Read More >>

Boris Kuznetsov was a scientist among humanists, a philosopher among scientists, a historian for those who look...  Read More >>

This callectian 'Of essays is, generally speaking, a cantinuatian of the themes that I have discussed in my baak...  Read More >>

The general treatment of problems connected with the causal conditioning of phenomena has traditionally been the...  Read More >>

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A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science's claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth  Read More >>

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Dealing with models and model-building in classical and quantum physics, this book relies on logic and the philosophy...  Read More >>

Presents the research as well as critical surveys and assessments of Otto Neurath's many-faceted and impressive...  Read More >>

Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining...  Read More >>

Die Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen sind das wichtigste wissenschaftliche Publikationsorgan...  Read More >>

Stalinist Genetics focuses on the rhetoric of T. D. Lysenko, the founder of an agrobiological doctrine (Lysenkoism)...  Read More >>

Probability plays a key role in modern physics: an international team of philosophers illuminate this role by exploring...  Read More >>