Philosophy of science books

This Element investigates which ontological categories (such as individuals, properties, events, degrees, and kinds)...  Read More >>

This Element explores the philosophical role of definitions in mathematical knowledge, examining their origins,...  Read More >>

In this Element, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of general relativity, describing its potential...  Read More >>

Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts. “Physics Fixes All the Facts” ends...  Read More >>

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Suppressed for centuries, the ideas of French philosopher Émilie Du Châtelet are ever relevant today... Just as...  Read More >>

This Element accounts for causation in terms of 1) regularities and laws of nature, 2) conditional probabilities...  Read More >>

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This Element investigates which ontological categories (such as individuals, properties, events, degrees, and kinds)...  Read More >>

This Element explores the philosophical role of definitions in mathematical knowledge, examining their origins,...  Read More >>

This book explores the emergence of ecological consciousness in the work of contemporary experimental filmmakers....  Read More >>

A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research.  Read More >>

This book provides a general framework for understanding nature to revive the philosophical study of nature as a...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of how the Platonic vision of Michael Polanyi – the Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher...  Read More >>

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This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the...  Read More >>

Scholarly resource to help readers navigate and better understand the religious, cultural, and political impact...  Read More >>

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One of philosophy's finest minds looks back over a life in thought 'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's...  Read More >>

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This book explores René Descartes’s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants,...  Read More >>