Philosophy of science books

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Addresses user issues in visualization, large data visualization, unstructured mesh processing for visualization,...  Read More >>

The Metaphysics of Science provides a clear, well-founded conception of modern science, according to which its core...  Read More >>

Examines how evolutionism can justify the existence of ethical normativity.  Read More >>

Looks at the stem cell controversy, covering the attempts of researchers to develop new treatments for a host of...  Read More >>

In his 2005 bestseller, The Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again,...  Read More >>

Much of the modern period was dominated by a 'reductionist' theory of science. On this view, to explain any event...  Read More >>

E. J. Lowe sets out and defends his theory of what there is. His four-category ontology is a metaphysical system...  Read More >>

This novel book introduces cellular automata from a rigorous nonlinear dynamics perspective. It supplies the missing...  Read More >>

Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds  Read More >>

As Aristotle stated, scientific explanation is based on deductive argument--yet, Wesley C. Salmon points out, not...  Read More >>

Observation and conceptual interpretation constitute the two major ways through which human beings engage the world....  Read More >>

'Halliday's investigations into grammatical metaphor take us deeply into the way we construct and expand meanings,...  Read More >>

This volume is based on papers presented at the XV Internordic Philosophical Symposium in Helsinki in May, 2004....  Read More >>

Cloning researchers claim to have created an embryo that is mostly human, but also part animal. Biotech companies...  Read More >>

Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity...  Read More >>

Presents a study of theories of the structure and internal architecture of matter in the seventeenth and eighteenth...  Read More >>

Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? This book...  Read More >>

The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy...  Read More >>

Whether philosophy of science is crucially tied down to epistemological justification is a significant topic of...  Read More >>

This book outlines the consequences of digitization for peer-reviewed research articles published in electronic...  Read More >>

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Mastering the art of communicating scientific information, is more critical than ever for a successful career in...  Read More >>

Modern science is big business. Governments, universities, and corporations have invested billions of dollars in...  Read More >>

Much of the modern period was dominated by a 'reductionist' theory of science. On this view, to explain any event...  Read More >>