This volume presents new research on the epistemology of experts. It features original essays from leading epistemologists on this timely topic....Daugiau...
This book offers an exploration of the diverse perspectives shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence, highlighting the influence of non-Western thinking in its development. Whether youre a curious reader, a policy maker, a scholar, or a tech in...Daugiau...
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is first major volume of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers in philoso...Daugiau...
This volume brings together essays from several different perspectives on a topic in epistemology that is garnering increased attention: inquiry. It is the first volume focused solely on philosophical issues related to inquiry....Daugiau...
This thorough and clearly written introduction to scientific explanation is an excellent resource for students of philosophy of science, metaphysics and philosophy of psychology....Daugiau...
We Have Never Been Human boldly reimagines what it means to be human, challenging the traditional notions that bind our identity to biology and culture. From ancient mythologies to modern technologies, this book reveals a dynamic, ever-evolving huma...Daugiau...
The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping comprises 37 chapters by an international team of leading scholars. An outstanding survey of a vibrant and emerging field, it will be of great interest to those studying and researching philosophy of psychology,...Daugiau...
Digital Knowledge: A Philosophical Investigation is the first book to fully explain and examine digital knowledge: what it is, how it compares to received theories of knowledge and where it is going....Daugiau...
Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through political theology and continental philosophy to ancient and medieval apocalypses, the book sheds a comprehensive light on the concept...Daugiau...
Copernicus (1938) presents an account of the astronomer Copernicus, and of the historic book in which he laid the foundations of the heliocentric theory of the planetary motions. The book is of great interest to students of the history of astronomy,...Daugiau...
This books core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligence is for mathematical reasons impossible. In supporting their claim, the authors marshal evidence from mathematics, physics, computer science, ph...Daugiau...
Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for Humanist Science diagnoses the fundamental problem in contemporary scientific psychiatry to be a lack of a sophisticated and nuanced engagement with the self and proposes a solutio...Daugiau...
This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences. It considers not only what Kant has to say on systematicity in general, but also how the systematicity requirement for scie...Daugiau...
An engaging introduction to one of the most significant works of philosophy. Written for readers approaching Humes work for the first time, it is essential reading for undergraduate students studying the history of modern philosophy, and all those w...Daugiau...
This outstanding introduction to Cavendishs philosophy explores the full span of her work. Including a chronology, glossary, and suggestions for further reading, Cavendish is an ideal starting point for anyone coming to Cavendishs philosophy for th...Daugiau...
This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent socio...Daugiau...
Mathematics and Philosophy at the Turn of the First Millennium sheds light on Abbos original philosophical system anchored in two central doctrines, which serve as a compass to navigate it: the theory of oneness (henology) and the theory of composit...Daugiau...
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Aristotle, combining a thorough study of Presocratic philosophy with Aristotles perspective....Daugiau...
An outstanding reference sourcefor the wide range of philosophical contributions made by women writing in Europe from about 1560 to 1780. It shows the range of genres and methods used by women writing in these centuries in Europe, thus encouraging a...Daugiau...
The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality. It formulates distinct questions and problems of causality as they arise across scientific and policy fields....Daugiau...
This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophical perspectives and approaches presented across the chapters will provide a foundation for future work...Daugiau...
Sarkar tells the philosophical story of 100 years of Logical Empiricism, from its inception in 1924 to its legacy today. A superb evocation of one of the most important intellectual movements of the 20th century, it will be of great interest to anyo...Daugiau...
This collection explores the fascinating philosophical history of materialism, from the ancient world to the modern day. Ideal for those studying and researching the history of this vital philosophical movement, the history and philosophy of science...Daugiau...
Essential reading for all students and researchers in philosophy. The Platonic Mind will also be of interest to those studying Plato in related disciplines such as politics, law, ancient history, literature, and religious studies....Daugiau...
This outstanding handbook examines the philosophy of disagreement and how it extends to debates in public policy and science. Ideal for those studying and researching epistemology, ethics and philosophy of science, it is also of interest to those in...Daugiau...
This volume features new essays on the application, justification and role of naturalism in philosophical inquiry. It serves as an important update on current controversies about naturalism....Daugiau...
This book provides an exhaustive overview of the ontology of relations. Moreover, it offers a detailed defense of the existence of irreducible relations in the universe and shows that entities such as powers should be better thought of as relations....Daugiau...
The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various interpretations, before endeavouring to formulate an idealist theory of evolution....Daugiau...
First Published in 1940, this book which is written not so much for the philosopher as for the ordinary educated man, is an account of the idea of the soul. It attempts to answer two questions-a) what is the idea of the soul; b) why has it become un...Daugiau...
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the sciences and the concept of divine revelation. It includes a historical overview of the notion of revelation, its role in scientific debates over the centuries, and current chal...Daugiau...
Based on an in-depth study of clinics offering assisted fertilization, Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy is the first book to examine the commercialization and commodification of know-how derived from the life s...Daugiau...
Pierre Gassendi was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy whose philosophical and scientific works contributed to shaping Western intellectual identity. This collection of essays constitutes the first book on Gassendi in the English langu...Daugiau...
This book delves into core metascientific concepts, offering a critical examination of current knowledge creation processes and scrutinizing researchers and their methodologies across disciplines. Designed for scientists and researchers,...Daugiau...
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....Daugiau...
First Published in 1969, System, Structure and Experience offers a basic information-flow design capable of accounting for the complex operations of a culturally cognizant and purposive mind consistently with the general relationship of the human or...Daugiau...
Beyond Lamarckism, Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution shows that the evolutionary impact of plasticity was in fact debated long before the emergence of the current debate on the limits of the Modern Synthesis....Daugiau...
This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy....Daugiau...
This book examines the metaphysical issues regarding the powerful qualities view in all its various forms. The author also develops and defends his own version of the powerful qualities view, which he calls powerful categoricalism....Daugiau...
Through an examination of the work of great scholars from fields including philosophy, literature, semiology, quantum physics, and anthropology, this book argues that building on the contribution of non-economists can open new areas of reflection in...Daugiau...
This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze. What unites these philosophers is a series of metaphysical concerns rooted in 17th-cent...Daugiau...
This book explores the essence of immunity. Philosophical reflection with reference to Spinoza and Canguilhem suggests immunity is part of the essence of life and the essence of immunity embraces elements with normativity. This book demonstrates th...Daugiau...
The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life....Daugiau...
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....Daugiau...
This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond....Daugiau...
Sex, Gender, Ethics, and the Darwinian Evolution of Humanity examines the impact of Darwins Descent of Man on contemporary biology and the humanities....Daugiau...
An outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading for any student and scholar of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Extensively revised and enlarged for this second edition,...Daugiau...
This book investigates how the rationality debate has developed from E.E. Evans-Pritchards study of Azande magic, through Peter Winchs argument that there can be no such thing as a social science, across the arguments about the status of science in...Daugiau...
