Philosophy of Science Books

New and Published Books

1. Science and the Media

   Alternative Routes to Scientific Communications

   By Massimiano Bucchi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. The author develops the argument that turning to the public is not simply a response to...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

   By P B Medawar

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he thinks....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Frames of Meaning

   The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science

   By H M & T J Collins & Pinch

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1982. Taking a radical interpretation of the Kuhnian concept of paradigm incommensurability, the authors begin by discussing the difficulties of gaining access to the ideas of communities with different rational categories, and then define the subject area of parapsychology,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 March 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Arguing About Human Nature

   Contemporary Debates

   Edited by Stephen M. Downes, Edouard Machery

   Series: Arguing About Philosophy

   Arguing About Human Nature covers recent debates--arising from biology, philosophy, psychology, and physical anthropology--that together systematically examine what it means to be human. Thirty-five essays--several of them appearing here for the first time in print--were carefully selected to...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
6. Boundaries of the Universe

   By John S Glasby

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever. Among other things this book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, recent discoveries in the solar system, stellar...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Beyond Empiricism

   Philosophy of Science in Sociology

   Edited by Andrew Tudor

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1982. This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology’s self-understanding. Recently philosophers of science have broken with the empiricism once fundamental to their discipline, and have sought...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Metaphysics of Powers

   Their Grounding and their Manifestations

   Edited by Anna Marmodoro

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. Contrastivism in Philosophy

   Edited by Martijn Blaauw

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement. This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on the contrastive treatment of philosophical concepts and questions, including knowledge, belief, free will,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Powers and Capacities in Philosophy

    The New Aristotelianism

    Edited by John Greco, Ruth Groff

    Powers and Capacities in Philosophy is designed to stake out an emerging, discipline-spanning neo-Aristotelian framework grounded in realism about causal powers. The volume brings together for the first time original essays by leading philosophers working on powers in relation to metaphysics,...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge