Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects

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The Dynamics of Science

The Dynamics of Science

Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science

Provides a Fresh Perspective on What Science Is and How and Why It Changes

Vaccine Hesitancy

Vaccine Hesitancy

Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

Reframes Resistance to Vaccines as a Crisis of Public Trust Rather than a War on Science

Creativity from the Periphery

Creativity from the Periphery

Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India

Presents A New Way of Looking at Peripheral Scientists and Demonstrates Their Creativity and Impact on the Larger Scientific Community

Science and Moral Imagination

Science and Moral Imagination

A New Ideal for Values in Science

A Direct Challenge to the Idea That Science Should Be Value-Free and Values Should Be Evidence-Free

From Commodification to the Common Good

From Commodification to the Common Good

Reconstructing Science, Technology, and Society

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to Commodification

Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge

Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge

Charles Renouvier's Political Philosophy of Science

How Philosophy of Science Can Bring About Change in Political Life

Above the Gene, Beyond Biology

Above the Gene, Beyond Biology

Toward a Philosophy of Epigenetics

Epigenetics is currently one of the fastest-growing fields in the sciences. Epigenetic information not only controls DNA expression but links genetic factors with the environmental experiences that influence the traits and characteristics of an individual. Above the Gene, Beyond Biology explores how biologists in this booming field investigate and explain living systems. Jan Baedke offers the first comprehensive philosophical discussion of epigenetic concepts, explanations, and methodologies so that we can better understand this “epigenetic turn” in the life sciences from a philosophical perspective.

Love, Order, and Progress

Love, Order, and Progress

The Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte’s doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on positive or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations associated with the ancien regime. This volume offers the most comprehensive English-language overview of Auguste Comte’s philosophy, the relation of his work to the sciences of his day, and the extensive, continuing impact of his thinking on philosophy and especially secular political movements in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Nature From Within

Nature From Within

Gustav Theodor Fechner And His Psychophysical Worldview

Translated from German, this exhaustive exploration of Fechner’s impact on philosophy and science is an invaluable historical text.

The Foundations of Scientific Inference

The Foundations of Scientific Inference

50th Anniversary Edition
After its publication in 1967, The Foundations of Scientific Inference taught a generation of students and researchers about the problem of induction, the interpretation of probability, and confirmation theory. Fifty years later, Wesley C. Salmon’s book remains one of the clearest introductions to these fundamental problems in the philosophy of ...
Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine

Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine

This volume focuses on medical and philosophical debates on human intelligence and animal perception in the early modern age.

Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered

Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered

A New Approach to the (Dis)Unity of Science

This book offers a critical overview and a new structure of the debate on unity versus plurality in science. It focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and metaphysical commitments of various philosophical attitudes surrounding monism and pluralism, and offers novel perspectives and pluralist theses on scientific methods and objects, reductionism, plurality of representations, natural kinds, and scientific classifications.

What Makes a Good Experiment?

What Makes a Good Experiment?

Reasons and Roles in Science

What makes a good experiment? Although experimental evidence plays an essential role in science, there is no algorithm or simple set of criteria for ranking or evaluating good experiments, and therefore no definitive answer to the question. Experiments can, in fact, be good in any number of ways: conceptually good, methodologically good, technically good, and pedagogically important. This book provides details of good experiments, with examples from physics and biology.

Science as It Could Have Been

Science as It Could Have Been

Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem

Science as It Could Have Been focuses on the crucial issue of contingency within science. It considers a number of case studies, past and present, from a wide range of scientific disciplines—physics, biology, geology, mathematics, and psychology—to explore whether components of human science are inevitable, or if we could have developed an alternative successful science based on essentially different notions, conceptions, and results.

The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice

The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice

Science and Values Revisited

Philosophers, sociologists, and historians of science offer a multidisciplinary view of the complex interrelationships of values in science and society, in both contemporary and historic contexts. They analyze the impact of commercialization and politicization on epistemic aspirations, and conversely, the ethical dilemmas raised by “practically relevant” science in today’s society.

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