Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited
1st Edition
Edited
By Vasso Kindi, Theodore Arabatzis
June 23, 2015
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...
Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell, James Robert Brown
June 23, 2015
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 ...
Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge
1st Edition
By James Robert Brown
July 03, 2014
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 ...
Popper’s Critical Rationalism: A Philosophical Investigation
1st Edition
By Darrell Rowbottom
May 23, 2013
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...
Emergence in Science and Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonella Corradini, Timothy O'Connor
March 21, 2013
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 ...
Evolution, Rationality and Cognition: A Cognitive Science for the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
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By Antonio Zilhao
December 13, 2010
Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold – the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when ...
Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization
1st Edition
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By Mauricio Suárez
November 10, 2010
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 ...
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science: Rationality without Foundations
1st Edition
By Stefano Gattei
November 03, 2010
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 ...
Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science
1st Edition
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By Luc Bovens, Carl Hoefer, Stephan Hartmann
June 07, 2010
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 ...