Philosophy of science Books

Ask someone to define consciousness, and youll get a myriad of similar-sounding answers, including the awareness of ones own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, and so on.But what is it really?That question has stumped philosophers of every...

Die Dialektische Methode und die Mathematische Naturanschauung ist ein Buch von Gustav Engel, das im Jahr 1865 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk untersucht Engel die Beziehung zwischen der dialektischen Methode und der mathematischen...

Das Buch ""Die Denkformenlehre Und Ihr Organischer Zusammenhang Mit Schule Und Wissenschaft"" von Bernhard Matthia wurde im Jahr 1847 ver������ffentlicht. Es behandelt die Denkformenlehre und ihren organischen Zusammenhang mit Schule und Wissenschaft...

Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective. Yet, since its gradual formation as a research field, the question of how to suitably integrate...

This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, 'enhance' and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature...

The Truth About Our World: A Journey Beyond Accepted Beliefs, Exploring Earth's Shape, Lunar Mysteries, Astronaut Adventures, and the Authenticity of Modern Science is a riveting exploration that challenges the status quo and dares to question the...

Hosszú évszázadok óta a telepátiához, a jövő előjeleihez és a tisztánlátáshoz hasonló szenzoros érzékeléseket csaló fantáziáknak,...

Številna stoletja so ekstrasenzorna dojemanja, kot so telepatija, znamenja prihodnosti in jasnovidnost, veljala za lažne fantazije, iluzije ali izume.Materialistični pristop, ki prevladuje v znanstvenih krogih, a priori zanika kakršno koli...

This book is the second greatly expanded edition of the previous booklet "Quantum Entanglement and the Collective Unconscious". It collects the best contributions published by the author in his blogs, social networks and sites in Italian,...

Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C.S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas...

Evaluates religious naturalists' attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions.

Drawing on debates from traditional and postmodern thoughts on science and technology, the title builds a new theoretical framework to reconsider science and technology, integrating the opposing viewpoints that either justify science or negate it.

In reviewing and reconsidering the intellectual history of scientism and anti-scientism, the authors assess the process of reasoning and prejudices of these contrasting viewpoints, while discussing the repercussions of scientific hegemony and its...

This volume analyses Karl Marx's understanding of science and technology and how it is associated with his focus on the perspective of history and human practice, seeking to illuminate a renewed understanding of science and technology from a Marx's angle.

This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its ultimate explanatory target catapults the investigation of...

Yüzyıllar boyunca, telepati, geleceğe dair alametler ve basiret gibi duyusal olmayan algılar sahte fanteziler, illüzyonlar veya icatlar olarak kabul edildi.Bilim çevrelerinde yaygın olan materyalist yaklaşım, her türlü...

The world around us appears solid and substantial-we can see, hear, touch, feel, and smell the objects and elements of our world. At the same time, everything around us is mostly empty space, as we know from having discovered the structure of atoms...

In recent decades, scientific theories have postulated the existence of many universes beyond our own. The details and implications of these theories are hotly contested. Some philosophers argue that these scientific models count against the existence of...

The book focuses on the ethical issues of human likeness of robots and human tendency to anthropomorphize. It is built on the assumption that design choices are not neutral, and they need to be discussed to align robots with human values.

Quantum Psychology offers a coherent and humorous description of how our thoughts, values and behaviors have been colored by our use of language and our prevailing view of the universe. While Quantum Mechanics, relativity, non-Euclidean geometries,...

Have you ever wondered where humanity is headed and worried deeply about it? We believe there are so many problems that need fixing before we are able to say we look forward to tomorrow. We feel there is something deeply wrong with the world. There is a...

'What Coleridge Thought' presents Coleridge's ideas in a coherent form, carefully organized to demonstrate precisely what his thoughts were and how his writings develop them.Coleridge's objective was to stimulate his readers into thinking for themselves...

Questo libro tratta il rapporto fra la fede cristiana in Dio Creatore e la scienza moderna, in uno studio di frontiera. Lo scopo è quello di fornire un commentario filosofico-teologico sugli sviluppi recenti nel campo scientifico. Altro intento è quello...

The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical...

The allure of science has always captivated members of the legal profession. Its siren's song offers a tune of perfection and the promise of endowing law with the respect and deference from society that lawyers crave. Both the bench and the bar...

""The Vital Resources Contributing To Capacity, Health, And Longevity: Including Also The Great Law Of The Evolution And Progression Of The Human Species"" is a book written by Jerome Kidder and published in 1878. The book explores the various factors...

""The Process of Thought Adapted to Words and Language: Together with a Description of the Relational and Differential Machines"" is a book written by Alfred Smee in 1851. The book explores the relationship between thought, words, and language, and how...

The New Philosophy of Modern Science, written by William Walker Strong and first published in 1920, is a comprehensive exploration of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science. Strong argues that the scientific method has fundamentally changed...

Subject and Object: As Connected With Our Double Brain, And A New Theory Of Causation is a book written by Robert Verity in 1870. It explores the relationship between the subject and object in human perception and how this is connected to the double...

Hypothesis For A Ceptacle Theory is a book written by Oren Byron Taft and published in 1900. The book presents a theory that attempts to explain the origin and evolution of life on Earth. According to Taft, life originated in a ""ceptacle"" - a...

Harrington's Desideratum For The Age is a Masonic work written by George Fellows Harrington in 1851. The book delves into the first principles that make up nature and explains certain other natural phenomena. The author explores various Masonic concepts...

As the research continues to accumulate, we find that the mainstream understanding of schizophrenia and the other related psychotic disorders has lost virtually all credibility. We've learned that full recovery is not only possible, but may actually be...

A LEADER PROVIDES takes 200 years of U.S. Marine Corps strategy on developing leaders and combines it with long-term business experience, successful entrepreneurial knowledge and social intercourse, to the end of having any group to better get along and...

Homo dominus redefines what it means to be human. Starting with the component pieces of human uniqueness-cognition, self-awareness, language, technology, aggression, altruism, culture, the arts, and spirituality-it rebuilds the human species using a new...

This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in...

What counts as an individual in the living world? What does it mean for a living thing to remain the same through time, while constantly changing? These questions are the province of immunology, one of the most dynamic fields in biology. Immunology...

This timely and accessible text shows how portrayals of science in popular media-including television, movies, and social media-influence public attitudes around messages from the scientific community, affect the kinds of research that receive support,...

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity. Emergent phenomena are said to...

Was God merely reprimanding Job for his presumption? Or was God also issuing an invitation to explore? The author shows how religious experience can illuminate our understanding of physics of light and how, in that light, we can see what modern physics...

Johannes Kepler's discovery of the basic quantitative laws that describe planetary motion placed the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus on a sound mathematic basis and proved the way for Newton's work in the next century. In this balanced, clearly...

The Relation Between Science And Philosophy is a book written by Albert Julius Mott in 1872. The book explores the relationship between science and philosophy, and how they are interconnected. Mott argues that science and philosophy are not separate...

This work is updated version of the original ground-breaking Adam and Evolution. It not only heavily criticises neo-Darwinian orthodoxy in all its various fields but also provides a logical, alternative perspective to the question of life's origin...