Philosophy of science Books

Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous...

Are Milton's Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense program, our culture's fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan's views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In Children of Ezekiel Michael Lieb reveals the...

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism,...

I have been observing the Earth since mankind first walked erect and used its first weapon. I am not human and do not take a human form. Eons ago, in Earth time, my species left behind our corporeal form and freed ourselves to roam the universe. I was...

De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex est opus magnum Titus Lucretii Carus, poetae et philosophi Romani, quod anno 55 a.C.n. scriptum est. Libri sex tractant de natura rerum et explicat atomisticam philosophiam Epicuream. In libro primo, Lucretius deorum...

De L�������Idee De Loi Naturelle Dans La Science Et La Philosophie Contemporaines (1895) est un livre �����crit par Emile Boutroux. Dans ce livre, l'auteur explore l'id�����e de loi naturelle dans la science et la philosophie contemporaines. Il examine...

This book provides a much-needed philosophical response to the recurrent postcolonial call to uproot the prevalent workings of the colonial regime, with a close focus on the African context. The work addresses a range of questions concerning the...

In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry predetermined molecular programs or blueprints is...

Should alternatives to evolution be taught in American public schools or rejected as an establishment of religion? Democracy, Intelligent Design, and Evolution argues that accurate science education helps shape a democratic temperament. Rather than...

The work of Michel Foucault has been influential in the analysis of space in a variety of disciplines, most notably in geography and politics. This collection of essays is the first to focus on what Foucault termed 'heterotopias', spaces that exhibit...

This is a book written by scholars for scholars, but with a broad appeal to the intelligent lay person. It represents the results of the meeting of 21 eminent researchers at the Papal Residence at Castel Gandolfo to explore topics of common interest for...

Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of "scientific" methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. In this study, Paul Diesing defines science not...

Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these...

While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But...

Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds and...

Institutiones Philosophiae: Ontologiam Cosmologiam, Psychologiam Theologiam Denique Naturalem Complexae, Methodo Wolfii Adornatae (1739) a Baumeister, Friedrich Christian est opus philosophicum quod continet tractatus de ontologia, cosmologia,...

De Triplici Disciplina est liber a Symphorien Champier editus, anno MDVIII, qui tractat de tribus disciplinis, quae partes sunt philosophiae naturalis, medicinae et theologiae. In hoc opere, auctor describit philosophiam naturalis, quae est scientia de...

This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development...

This collection represents a unique undertaking in scientific publishing to honor Nick Metropolis, the last survivor of the World War II Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. In this volume, some of the leading scientists and...

Welcome to life but not necessarily as you may know it. These series of stories involve the problems (or even benefits?) of not being a part of what is considered the normal world for most people. Enjoy it or not as you see fit!

Within the field of psychology there is a proliferation of paradigms, theories, models, and dimensions without an underlying conceptual framework or theory. This conclusion has been reached by representatives of many different psychological specialties...

It is generally believed that doing science means accumulating empirical data with no or little reference to the interpretation of the data based on the scientist's th- retical framework or presuppositions. Holton (1969a) has deplored the widely accepted...

Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. In addition to a...

Preface. 1. The Search for Truth. 2. The Mathematical Principles of God's Design. 3. Newton's Methods of Fluxions. 4. Leibniz's Calculus. 5. Newton's and Leibniz's Notions of Space and Time. 6. God's Absolute Perspective According to Newton. 7. God's...

Natural and social sciences seem very often to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable...

Time and again, philosophy, in trying to untangle the issues surrounding the an­ alytic-synthetic distinction, has doubted that such a distinction can significantly be drawn at all. We think, in face of the varied and age-old...

""Der Streit des Naturgesetzes mit dem Zweckbegriffe: In den physischen und historischen Wissenschaften"" ist ein Buch von Johann Heinrich Koosen, das im Jahr 1845 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Abhandlung �����ber den Konflikt...

Der Situationskalkul (1851) von Hermann Scheffler ist ein Buch, das sich mit der mathematischen Theorie der Situationen befasst. Der Autor beschreibt darin eine Methode zur Analyse von Situationen, die auf der formalen Logik basiert. Scheffler untersucht...

Immortality: A Rational Faith is a book written by William Chester and published in 1903. The book explores the predictions of science, philosophy, and religion on the subject of a future life and argues for the existence of immortality. The author draws...

""Ideen zu einer philosophischen Wissenschaft des Geistes und der Natur"" ist ein Buch von H.K.H. Delff, das 1865 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Buch pr�����sentiert Delff seine Ideen zu einer umfassenden philosophischen Wissenschaft, die sowohl...

""�����tude sur divers points de la philosophie des sciences"" est un livre �����crit par Joseph Boussinesq en 1879. Dans ce livre, l'auteur explore diff�����rents aspects de la philosophie des sciences, tels que la m�����thode scientifique, la logique...

The Scientific Bases of Faith is a book written by Joseph John Murphy in 1873. The book explores the relationship between science and religion, and aims to provide a scientific basis for faith. Murphy argues that science and religion are not mutually...

The Relation of Philosophy to Science, Physical and Psychological: An Address is a book written by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson and originally published in 1884. In this book, Hodgson explores the relationship between philosophy and science, specifically in...

Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A...

A short pithy saying that sums up a general truth, the aphorism is the oldest written art form. Following in such a long tradition from Ancient Greeks like Plato and Heraclitus to Romans like Seneca and Cicero all the way to moderns like Nietzsche, the...

La philosophie est un terme fascinant, beau, romantique et harmonieux, mais aussi une activité intellectuelle intense. En réalité, la philosophie n'est ni très romantique ni très fatigante.Il est vrai qu'il faut utiliser son cerveau et que certaines...

Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development is a volume devoted to exploring the core theoretical and disciplinary research problems of emergence processes from which systems are established. It focuses on emergence as the...

De L. Annaei Senecae Naturalibus Quaestionibus: Thesim Proponebat Facultati Litterarum Parisiensi est liber qui ab auctore Leon Crousle anno MDCCCLXIII editus est. In hoc libro, Crousle disputationem de quaestionibus naturalibus L. Annaei Senecae habet...

De L. Annaei Senecae: Qvaestionibvs Natvralibvs (1886) est liber a Georgio Mveller editus, qui tractat de quaestionibus naturae et philosophiae naturalis in opusculis Lucii Annaei Senecae. Lucius Annaeus Seneca fuit philosophus Romanus qui vixit in primo...