Philosophy of Science Books

New and Published Books

1. The Metaphysics of Powers

   Their Grounding and their Manifestations

   Edited by Anna Marmodoro

   Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. The Unity of Science (Routledge Revivals)

   By Rudolph Carnap

   As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Rudolph Carnap's aim was to bring about a "unified science" by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical data of all the sciences. This work, first published in English in 1934, endeavors to work out a way in which the observation...

   Published August 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Arguing About Science

   Edited by Alexander Bird, James Ladyman

   Series: Arguing About Philosophy

   Arguing About Science is an outstanding, engaging introduction to the essential topics in philosophy of science, edited by two leading experts in the field. This exciting and innovative anthology contains a selection of classic and contemporary readings that examine a broad range of issues, from...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Reading Putnam

   Edited by Maria Baghramian

   Hilary Putnam is one of the world’s leading philosophers. His highly original and often provocative ideas have set the agenda for a variety of debates in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. His now famous philosophical thought experiments, such as the ‘Twin earth’...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Science and Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

    And Other Essays

    By Bernard Bosanquet

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1927, Science and Philosophy: And Other Essays is a collection of individual papers written by Bernard Bosanquet during his highly industrious philosophical life. The collection was put together by Bosanquet’s wife after the death of the writer and remains mostly unaltered with...

    Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge