Original essays by leading philosophers of science explore the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalised - conducted as part of natural scie
Does science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning which reaches beyond the world experienced by us? How can we be so sure that the phy
Those with an interest in the history and philosophy of science, especially concerning the application of statistical and probabilistic thinking to physics, che
Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-inde
This book provides a clear, well-founded conception of modern science. The views advanced are not only novel, but they constitute an alternative that is superio