Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences
1st Edition
By Wei Fang
May 27, 2024
This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences such as physics and chemistry and by demonstrating that biological explanations are ...
The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
1st Edition
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By John Bickle, Carl F. Craver, Ann-Sophie Barwich
May 27, 2024
This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its ultimate explanatory target—our brains and hence the organ driving our behaviors—catapults the ...
Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics
1st Edition
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By Sebastian Lutz, Adam Tamas Tuboly
September 25, 2023
This volume has two primary aims: to trace the traditions and changes in methods, concepts, and ideas that brought forth the logical empiricists’ philosophy of physics and to present and analyze the logical empiricists’ various and occasionally contrary ideas about the physical sciences and their ...
Science, Freedom, Democracy
1st Edition
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By Péter Hartl, Adam Tamas Tuboly
September 25, 2023
This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors utilize ...
Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy
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By Rik Peels, Jeroen de Ridder, René van Woudenberg
August 01, 2022
Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters. While this tradition has always had its philosophical detractors who have defended various forms of skepticism or have sought to develop rival epistemological views, recent advances in ...
Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic: Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship
1st Edition
By Armin W. Schulz
August 01, 2022
This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally. The author divides ...
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science
1st Edition
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By William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, Nicholas J. Teh
December 10, 2019
The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the ...
Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science: Alternative Interpretations of the A Priori
1st Edition
By David J. Stump
August 14, 2018
In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science. Stump emphasizes the unique epistemological status of the constitutive elements...
Causation, Evidence, and Inference
1st Edition
By Julian Reiss
November 28, 2017
In this book, Reiss argues in favor of a tight fit between evidence, concept and purpose in our causal investigations in the sciences. There is no doubt that the sciences employ a vast array of techniques to address causal questions such as controlled experiments, randomized trials, statistical and...
Conservative Reductionism
1st Edition
By Michael Esfeld, Christian Sachse
November 28, 2017
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, ...
Models, Simulations, and Representations
1st Edition
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By Paul Humphreys, Cyrille Imbert
November 28, 2017
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 ...
Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science
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By Léna Soler, Sjoerd Zwart, Michael Lynch, Vincent Israel-Jost
May 16, 2017
In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and ...