| Book that Shook the World | Julian Huxley | Five essays from noted theologians, philosophers and biologists discuss the impact of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species on their respective fields. |
| Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice | Martin Carrier | 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. |
| Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences | Gereon Wolters | Leading biologists and philosophers of biology discuss the basic theories and concepts of biology and their connections with ethics, economics, and psychology, providing a remarkably unified report on the “state of the art” in the philosophy of biology. |
| Cosmos of Science | John Earman | The Cosmos of Science presents a cross section of the best work currently being done in history and philosophy of science, exploring fundamental questions in four major areas: history of science; foundations of mathematics and physics; induction and scientific methodology; and action and rationality. Together these essays reveal the coherence and order of the cosmos of science. |
| Ending the Mendel-Fisher Controversy | Allan Franklin | Gregor Mendel's “Experiments in Plant-Hybridization,” presented in 1865, became the foundation of modern genetics. Did his research follow the rigors of real scientific inquiry, or was Mendel's data too good to be true-the product of doctored statistics?
In this book, leading experts present their conclusions on the legendary controversy surrounding the challenge to Mendel's findings by British statistician and biologist R. A. Fisher. In 1936, Fisher suggested that Mendel's data could have been falsified in order to support his expectations.
This volume includes an overview of the controversy; the original papers of Mendel and Fisher; four of the most important papers on the debate; and new updates, by the authors, of the latter four papers, making this book the definitive last word on the subject. |
| Foundations of Scientific Inference | Wesley Salmon | Relatively brief and non-technical, Wesley Salmon critically approaches the philosophical problems of probability and induction. He analyzes existing theories of probability, then offers his own criteria for determining the adequacy of their interpretations. |
| Four Decades of Scientific Explanation | Wesley Salmon | First published in 1989, this book presents and analyzes the dramatic changes in philosophical conceptions of scientific explanation after the landmark 1948 essayStudies in the Logic of Explanation by Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim. |
| Interpretation | Peter Machamer | The act of interpretation occurs in nearly every area of the arts and sciences. That ubiquity serves as the inspiration for the fourteen essays of this volume, covering many of the domains in which interpretive practices are found.
Contributors:
Andreas Blank, Cornelius Borck, Paul M. Churchland, George Gale, Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert, Kristin Gjesdal, Ruth Lorand, Christoph Lumer, Peter Machamer, Paolo Parrini, Nicholas Rescher, Ulrich Sautter, Kenneth F. Schaffner, Catherine Wilson |
| Limits of Science | Nicholas Rescher | Nicholas Rescher discusses the theoretical limits of science, emphasizing what it can discover, not what it should discover. He explores both the ideological and economic obstacles to scientific progress with a precision and clarity that makes his book accessible to philosophers and non-philosophers alike. |
| Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories | Wesley Salmon | This volume honors and examines the founders of the philosophy of logical empiricism. Historical and interpretive essays clarify the scientific philosophies of Carnap, Reichenbach, Hempel, Kant, and others, while exploring the main topics of logical empiricist philosophy of science. |
| Logical Empiricism | Paolo Parrini | This collection of essays reexamines the origins of logical empiricism and offers fresh insights into its relationship to contemporary philosophy of science. |
| Mindscapes | Martin Carrier | The philosophy of the mind is at the central core of this volume. Essays examine topics such as folk psychology, neuropsychology, psychoanalytic theory, the role of mental content in voluntary action, the functional and qualitative properties of color, meanings as conceptual structures, cognitive luck, and animal cognition. |
| Nature From Within | Michael Heidelberger | Translated from German, this exhaustive exploration of Fechner’s impact on philosophy and science is an invaluable historical text. |
| No Easy Answers | Allan Franklin | Offers an accurate picture of science through the examination of nontechnical case studies which illustrate the various roles that experiment plays in science. Examines both sucessful and unsucessful experiments to show how scientists use experimental evidence and critical discussion to expand our knowlege of the natural world. |
| On Leibniz | Nicholas Rescher | On Leibniz brings together eleven of one of today’s most productive and insightful philosopher’s previously published essays that examine key aspects of the eminent German philosopher-scientist’s philosophy and personality. |
| Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds | John Earman | The inaugural volume of the series, devoted to the work of philosopher Adolf Grünbaum, encompasses the philosophical problems of space, time, and cosmology, the nature of scientific methodology, and the foundations of psychoanalysis. |
| Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation | Hans Radder | The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation is a collection of essays that focuses on the identification and clarification of philosophical issues in experimental science, such as the link between science and technology, the role of theory in experimentation involving material and causal intervention, and the impact of modeling and computer simulation on experimentation. |
| Readings on Laws of Nature | John Carroll | The first anthology to offer a contemporary overview of the problem of laws—an area of study that has become increasingly central to the philosophy of science. The book covers a broad range of views, and consists exclusively of articles that have proven to be influential. |
| Responsible Scientist | John Forge | Forge examines the challenges of social, moral, and legal responsibility faced by today's scientists. He presents a broad overview of many areas of scientific endeavor, citing the responsibility of corporations, employees, and groups of scientists as judged by the values of science and society's appraisals of actions and outcomes. Forge maintains that ultimate responsibility lies in the hands of the individual—the responsible scientist—who must exhibit the foresight to anticipate the use and abuse of his or her work. |
| Science at Century’s End | Martin Carrier | Twenty penetrating essays by prominent philosophers and historians who explore and debate the limits of scientific inquiry and their presumed consequences for science in the 21st century. |
| Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal | Heather Douglas | Douglas challenges the traditional value-free ideal, and proposes a
new ideal for values in science. She argues that the distinction
between junk science and sound science lies in the roles values play
at key points throughout science, and that constraining those roles is
central to protecting the integrity and objectivity of science. |
| Science, Reason, and Rhetoric | Henry Krips | Through essays on both rhetorical theory and case studies, leaders in the disciplines of rhetoric, sociology, philosophy, and history converge and clash to explore the rhetoric of science.
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| Science, Values, and Objectivity | Peter Machamer | Collection of essays that identify the values crucial to science, distinguish some of the criteria that can be used for value identification, and elaborate the conditions for warranting certain values as necessary or central to scientific research. |
| Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science | Daniela Bailer-Jones | A comprehensive philosophical analysis of the use of scientific models in historic and contemporary contexts. |
| Scientific Understanding | Henk de Regt | Examines the essential role of understanding in the scientific process, through three key topics: understanding and explanation, understanding and models, and understanding in scientific practice. |
| Selectivity and Discord | Allan Franklin | Addresses the fundamental question of whether there are grounds for belief in experimental results. Allan Franklin demonstrates that experimental results are not mere social constructions, and can be used as a basis for scientific knowledge. |
| Solomon Maimon | Meir Buzaglo | Even though the philosophy of Solomon Maimon (1753-1800) is usually considered an important link between Kant’s transcendental philosophy and German idealism, his ideas have been neglected over the past two centuries. In this book Meir Buzaglo reconstructs Maimon’s philosophy, emphasizing the importance of its mathematics. |
| Theories on the Scrap Heap | John Losee | Using a wide variety of examples of rejected scientific theories, Losee provides an unusually clear analysis of the way scientific method works.
Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006). |
| Theory and Method in the Neurosciences | Peter Machamer | This volume surveys the nature and structure of theories in contemporary neuroscience, exploring many of its methodological techniques and problems. |
| Thinking About Causes | Peter Machamer | Emerging as a hot topic in the mid-twentieth century, causality is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. Thinking About Causes brings together top philosophers from the United States and Europe to focus on causality as a major force in philosophical and scientific thought. |
| World Changes | Paul Horwich | Prominent philosophers analyze the work of Thomas Kuhn, including his monumental study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, from a broad perspective, comparing earlier logical empiricism and logical positivism with the new philosophy inspired by Kuhn in the early 1960s. |
| World Observed/The World Conceived | Hans Radder | Provides an innovative analysis of the nature and interplay of observation and conceptualization. Radder shows that observation is always conceptually interpreted, and concepts affect the way observational processes are conducted in the first place. |
