This thoroughly updated second edition guides readers through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science. Using concrete examples from the history of science, Kent W. Staley ...

Explore general questions about the nature of science as well as specific foundational issues related to the individual sciences in this rigorous programme. With a deep and rigorous programme of ...

With this novum organum, philosophers hoped to slice through thorny problems in metaphysics and epistemology, and to model philosophy after the exact sciences. We will look at how mathematical logic ...

Grapple with some of the biggest philosophical questions facing us today and sharpen your skills in logical reasoning. This BSc Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method gives you the chance to examine ...

This rich and comprehensive volume surveys and illuminates the numerous and complicated interconnections between philosophical and scientific thought as both were radically transformed from the late ...

Representative readings from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century can be found in The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader, co-edited by Professors McKaughan and Vande Wall. While ...

SCIENTIFIC philosophy may be in a state of flux in its details, but there is one guiding principle which seems to give at least a unity of purpose to the numerous schools of thought which have ...

and contemporary debates at the intersection of science, ethics, law, and religion. Because advanced training in philosophy develops skills in rigorous reasoning, clear analysis, writing and oral ...