Philosophy of science books

<p>If we know something, do we always know it through something else? Does this mean that the chain of knowledge...  Read More >>

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In 1932, the so-called annus mirabilis of modern physics, a group of scientists gathered in Copenhagen for a week-long...  Read More >>

Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of ""scientific"" methodology...  Read More >>

Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies, science studies more...  Read More >>

The scope of public ignorance concerning how things work inevitably grows explosively. It is unreasonable to expect...  Read More >>

Bas C. van Fraassen presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. Science represents natural phenomena...  Read More >>

A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic...  Read More >>

A stimulating perspective on how scientists interpret the world and communicate among themselves and with others...  Read More >>

A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic...  Read More >>

Focuses on the question: is spacetime nothing more than a mathematical space (which describes the evolution in time...  Read More >>

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<p>This book reveals that scientific logic is an extension of common, everyday logic and that it can and should...  Read More >>

Logical empiricism cannot account for theory conflict. Popperianism cannot account for how one theory is a progression...  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 >>

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The relationship between science and its publics has concerned commentators since science itself began. Yet in recent...  Read More >>

In this provocative book, evolutionist and evangelical Christian Denis O. Lamoureux proposes an approach to origins...  Read More >>

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Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. This thoughtful...  Read More >>

Thomas Kuhn's ""The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"" is arguably one of the influential books of the twentieth...  Read More >>

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Thomas Kuhn's ""The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"" is arguably one of the influential books of the twentieth...  Read More >>