Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore ...
Continue readingThe papers in this collection are united by an approach to philosophy. They illustrate the manifold contributions that logic ...
Continue readingAbductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the ...
Continue readingVolume One, Concepts of 'Nature' and 'The Natural' in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that ...
Continue readingThe two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood ...
Continue readingThe thesis of this book is that members of what I shall call the “animal welfare science community,”3 which includes ...
Continue readingThe Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in 2003, Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, to commemorate ...
Continue readingThe present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed ...
Continue readingthe papers cover epistemology, general philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The section ...
Continue reading"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...
Continue readingClassifying Madness examines the conceptual foundations of the D.S.M., the main classification of mental disorders used by ...
Continue readingThis text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ...
Continue readingThis volume is divided into three sections: the first one describes the nature of the component disciplines of STEM. The ...
Continue readingThis groundbreaking, book analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases ...
Continue readingThis volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf ...
Continue readingoffers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an integrated ...
Continue readingThis book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations, and its findings offer a completely ...
Continue readingThis volume approaches the philosophy of medicine from the broad naturalist perspective that holds that philosophy must be ...
Continue readingThis book examines the kinds of life-science experiments that give rise to the dual-use dilemma and provides philosophical ...
Continue readingThis book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, ...
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