Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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1. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

   Edited by Vasso Kindi, Theodore Arabatzis

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts

   Edited by Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell, James Robert Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge

   By James Robert Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Models, Simulations, and Representations

   Edited by Paul Humphreys, Cyrille Imbert

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   Although scientific models and simulations differ in numerous ways, they are similar in so far as they are posing essentially philosophical problems about the nature of representation. This collection is designed to bring together some of the best work on the nature of representation being done by...

   Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Conservative Reductionism

   By Michael Esfeld, Christian Sachse

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism. It argues that it is wrong-headed to conceive an opposition between functional and physical properties (or functional and physical descriptions,...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. Popper’s Critical Rationalism

   A Philosophical Investigation

   By Darrell Rowbottom

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   Popper’s Critical Rationalism presents Popper’s views on science, knowledge, and inquiry, and examines the significance and tenability of these in light of recent developments in philosophy of science, philosophy of probability, and epistemology. It develops a fresh and novel philosophical position...

   Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
7. Fictions in Science

   Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization

   Edited by Mauricio Suárez

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down to the last detail. The essays collected in this book—written by some of the leading experts in the field—challenge this popular image right at its...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
8. Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science

   Rationality without Foundations

   By Stefano Gattei

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through conjectures and refutations, to his own development, by portraying him in his intellectual growth as...

   Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
9. Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science

   Edited by Luc Bovens, Carl Hoefer, Stephan Hartmann

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   Nancy Cartwright is one of the most distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. Despite the profound impact of her work, there is neither a systematic exposition of Cartwright’s philosophy of science nor a collection of articles that contains in-depth discussions of the...

   Published June 6th 2010 by Routledge
10. Emergence in Science and Philosophy

    Edited by Antonella Corradini, Timothy O'Connor

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

    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 arise out of and be sustained by more basic...

    Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge