Philosophy of science books

This text presents an account of the argument between Thomas Hobbes and John Wallis, from the core mathematics to...  Read More >>

Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of...  Read More >>

In 1996 the physicist Alan Sokal planted a hoax article in the journal Social Text, mimicking the social constructionist...  Read More >>

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In Quantum Dialogue, Beller shows that science is rooted not just in conversation but in disagreement, doubt, and...  Read More >>

Offers assessments of the way time enters wide spectrum of disciplines. This book presents the definition and uses...  Read More >>

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An introduction to the contemporary debate between science and religion. The author describes her journey as a preacher...  Read More >>

Through words and pictures, this book conveys the spirit of T'ai Chi. The author is a teacher of T'ai Chi who is...  Read More >>

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Michael Resnik calls mathematics a science on the grounds that it has a factual subject-matter and that mathematical...  Read More >>

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This study is of Jagadis Chandra Bose's science and philosophy of science in the context of the Western scientific...  Read More >>

This anthology traces the development of thinking in the philosophy of science from logical positivism to the present....  Read More >>

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From the very beginning it was realised that quantum physics involves radically new interpretative and epistemological...  Read More >>

The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to...  Read More >>

Seeks to capture the problem of intuition of mobility in philosophy, mathematics and physics. This book deals with:...  Read More >>

Readership: Specialists in the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology, biologists and ecologists...  Read More >>

A collection of twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences. It challenges...  Read More >>

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Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research,...  Read More >>

Laws of nature have long been thought to have special significance for aspects of scientific reasoning such as counterfactual...  Read More >>

Social constructionists claim that scientific debates are influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetoric...  Read More >>

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