Philosophy of science books

*John L Casti has created a fascinating, genre-bending book an accessible novel of ideas which explores the fundamental...  Read More >>

Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science which arose during his lifetime;...  Read More >>

Contents: A Language of Space; Four dimensional space; Analogy of a plane world; Significance of a four-dimensional...  Read More >>

This sentence is false. Is this sentence true? If it is true that the sentence is false then the sentence is true....  Read More >>

Alison Winter's cultural history focuses on mesmerism: who was entranced, who did the entrancing, why mesmerism...  Read More >>

Defends the view that science provides us with knowledge about the world which is based on experimental evidence...  Read More >>

Includes philosophical understandings of nature and human nature. This work focuses on the phenomenological ecology...  Read More >>

Aus Paulis letztem Lebensjahrzehnt sind über 2000 Briefe erhalten und in diesem grundlegenden Werk zur Physikgeschichte...  Read More >>

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Discovery Science, DS'98,...  Read More >>

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This one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering a viable alternative...  Read More >>

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Amid the clamorous debates on political correctness, the Western canon, and alcohol abuse on campus, many observers...  Read More >>

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the world really is the...  Read More >>

Perfected science is but an idealization that provides a useful contrast to highlight the limited character of what...  Read More >>

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A nationally acclaimed novelist, Zencey has brought together autobiography and philosophy to produce a work that...  Read More >>

This collection of papers demonstrates the links among the philosophical points of view, areas of focus and methods...  Read More >>

As a series of engaging essays, this book is laced with personal anecdotes about what it means to be a professor,...  Read More >>

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This book defends the view that any adequate account of rational decision making must take a decision maker's beliefs...  Read More >>

What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate...  Read More >>

Ilkka Niiniluoto comes to the rescue of realism in the philosophy of science. Philosophical realism holds that the...  Read More >>