Philosophy of science books

This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage...  Read More >>

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In the last decades ontology has been successfully developed in many directions and has fostered various approaches...  Read More >>

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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was...  Read More >>

This volume's title stems from an observable and seemingly amusing phenomenon--the placement of fish symbols on...  Read More >>

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Intends to convince readers of the following: that it is warranted to dream of a realistic and full-fledged theory...  Read More >>

Collects together a number of important papers concerning both the method of abstraction generally and the use of...  Read More >>

JeffandImetwhenIwasagraduatestudentattheUniversityofMinnesotaandhewas a post doctoral fellow, first in the Chemistry...  Read More >>

Second, a crucial missing element of those discussions has been the failure to reflect explicitly on the diverse...  Read More >>

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The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being,...  Read More >>

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Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution...  Read More >>

Situated at the crossroads of nature and culture, physics and consciousness, cosmos and life, history – intimately...  Read More >>

Descartes' Mediations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy,...  Read More >>

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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

It will be shown that utility and probability fu- tions derived in a non-Bayesian manner can be used for generating...  Read More >>

The present collection examines the many different ways in which religions appeal to the authority of science. The...  Read More >>

Addressing a wide range of topics, from Newton to Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science, these essays critically examine...  Read More >>

Contemporary philosophy is largely naturalistic in approach – it takes philosophy to be constrained by the results...  Read More >>

Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era...  Read More >>