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A Companion
Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories, and concepts used by scientists. It mainly developed as a field in its own right during the twent...
Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is transparent, that dogs can swim and oak trees can let their...
Evolving Concepts and Theories
Carving Nature at its Joints? In order to map the future of biology we need to understand where we are and how we got there. Present day biology is th...
Philosophical Perspectives of Time in Natural Sciences
This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. Its aim is to provide some insights about the nature of time on...
Conceptual and Practical Challenges
This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity cris...
This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin...
Exploring - Understanding - Knowing
The new book series “The Science and Art of Simulation” (SAS) addresses computer simulations as a scientific activity and engineering artistry (in...
The Mission of Logical Empiricism
This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of ph...
Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct. The traditional aca...
This volume brings together scholars across various domains of the history and philosophy of mathematics, investigating duality as a multi-faceted phe...
This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the early twentieth century. The turn of...
Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization
Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down...
Theory of Knowledge and Acceleration of Time
Based around the image of a carousel, this book uses epistemological theory to tackle the paradoxical acceleration and deceleration of time that is ex...
Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has generally re...
Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science
Lab Lit: Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science is the first formal, systematic, scholarly investigation of laboratory literature ...
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Vols. for 1969- include a section of abstracts....