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A Comprehensible Universe : The Interplay of Science and Theology

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore ...

A Logical Approach to Philosophy

The papers in this collection are united by an approach to philosophy. They illustrate the manifold contributions that logic ...

Abductive Reasoning

Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the ...

Altering Nature : Volume One: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates

Volume One, Concepts of 'Nature' and 'The Natural' in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that ...

Altering Nature :Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy

The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood ...

Animal Welfare : Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications

The thesis of this book is that members of what I shall call the “animal welfare science community,”3 which includes ...

Cambridge and Vienna

The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in 2003, Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, to commemorate ...

Cartographies of the Mind

The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed ...

Causation, Coherence and Concepts : A Collection of Essays

the papers cover epistemology, general philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The section ...

Clashes of Knowledge : Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion

"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...

Classifying Madness

Classifying Madness examines the conceptual foundations of the D.S.M., the main classification of mental disorders used by ...

Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ...

Critical Questions in STEM Education

This volume is divided into three sections: the first one describes the nature of the component disciplines of STEM. The ...

Data Journeys in the Sciences

This groundbreaking, book analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases ...

Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918–1935

This volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf ...

Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics

offers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an integrated ...

Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature:

This book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations, and its findings offer a completely ...

Establishing Medical Reality

This volume approaches the philosophy of medicine from the broad naturalist perspective that holds that philosophy must be ...

Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences

This book examines the kinds of life-science experiments that give rise to the dual-use dilemma and provides philosophical ...

Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? How Scientific Evidence Shapes Our Understanding And Use Of Medicine

This book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, ...

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