Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Karl Popper and the Open Future of the Philosophy of Science
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By Yafeng Shan
April 22, 2026
This volume revisits and explores Popper’s legacy for contemporary philosophy of science. It develops Popper’s important insights on the methodology and nature of science and investigates new directions in philosophy of science inspired by Popper’s work. Karl Popper (1902-1994) is regarded as one ...
When Metaphysics Meets Biology: Kantian Approaches to the Concept of Organism
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By Philippe Huneman
February 24, 2026
This book explains the background and meaning of Kant’s account of the life sciences in the Critique of Judgment by reading the development of Kant’s ideas on the living since his 1763 precritical essays, in parallel with analyzing several milestones in the constitution of the concept of organism ...
Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency: A Free Energy Account
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By Majid D. Beni
December 26, 2025
This book draws on advances in computational neuroscience and theoretical biology to provide a clear and accessible agentive account of the nature of causality and scientific explanations. Instead of attempting to establish the elements of scientific explanation, such as causality, in a reality ...
Physics and Free Will: The Science of Libertarian Freedom
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By Jeffrey Koperski
December 03, 2025
Can libertarian free will survive our best physical theories? While prominent physicists argue that genuine agency contradicts science, this book demonstrates that contemporary physics actually provides robust foundations for human freedom. Physics and Free Will rigorously navigates the complex ...
Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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By Roberto Gronda, Marianne Janack, Giancarlo Marchetti
November 07, 2025
This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary debates in the philosophy of science. Pragmatism has been undergoing a considerable revival in philosophical debates for the last two decades. Philosophers of science are now ...
Modeling the Possible: Perspectives from Philosophy of Science
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By Tarja Knuuttila, Till Grüne-Yanoff, Rami Koskinen, Ylwa Sjölin Wirling
February 07, 2025
Models are used to explore possibilities across all scientific fields. Climate models simulate the potential future climatic conditions under various emissions scenarios, macroeconomic models investigate the implications of various fiscal and monetary policy initiatives, and infectious diseases ...
The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments
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By Milena Ivanova, Alice Murphy
November 28, 2024
The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the beauty of theories, and other aspects of scientific practice have been neglected. This book offers a novel perspective on aesthetics in experimentation ...
Conjunctive Explanations: The Nature, Epistemology, and Psychology of Explanatory Multiplicity
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By Jonah N. Schupbach, David H. Glass
October 08, 2024
Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individually. This book brings together leading scholars to provide an interdisciplinary and unified discussion of such “conjunctive explanations.” ...
Understanding and Conscious Experience: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
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By Andrei Ionuț Mărăşoiu, Mircea Dumitru
September 02, 2024
This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience. In doing so, it builds bridges between different philosophical disciplines and provides a metaphysically robust characterization of understanding, both in and beyond science. The past two decades have witnessed growing interest...
Evidence Contestation: Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies
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By Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Saana Jukola, Olga Sparschuh
August 26, 2024
This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence. Evidence is an essential ...
New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress
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By Yafeng Shan
August 26, 2024
This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science. Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and ...
The Internet and Philosophy of Science
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By Wenceslao J Gonzalez
August 26, 2024
From the perspective of the philosophy of science, this book analyzes the Internet conceived in a broad sense. It includes three layers that require philosophical attention: (1) the technological infrastructure, (2) the Web, and (3) cloud computing, along with apps and mobile Internet. The study ...