BEYOND REDUCTIONISM
In his preface to this remarkable volume, Arthur Koestler notes that his main interest over the previous 10 years had been the history and present…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Of Science
Why Trust Science?
This book is the sequel to Merchants of Doubt, the author's study of the influence of the fossil fuel industry on the climate debate. The…… Read More »
Causation in Science
The emphasis of this technical book is on causal constraints in science, i.e. general conceptual scaffolding and principles rather than causal relations between individual elements…… Read More »
ON PURPOSE
Although these books both have purpose in the title, they could scarcely be more different. The first is a history of purpose in Western culture…… Read More »
A Hospitable Universe
Subtitled 'addressing ethical and spiritual concerns in light of recent scientific discoveries', this book is a tour de force in the scope of its treatment…… Read More »
UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
Willis Harman, the first President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences who devoted the last few years of his life to exploring the metaphysical foundations…… Read More »
BEYOND MATTER: WHY SCIENCE NEEDS METAPHYSICS
Here is Roger Trigg at his most incisive and succinct as he returns to his examination of where the limits of the modern scientific enterprise…… Read More »
Creating Scientific Controversies
Subtitled 'uncertainty and bias in science and society', this is an important work bringing to bear insight from the philosophy of science to what Harker…… Read More »
The Concept of Nature
First published in 1920, this classic series of Tarner Lectures by Whitehead represents an early attempt to get to grips with the new physics of…… Read More »
Ockham's Razors
Most readers will be familiar with Occam's razor or the principle of parsimony that states that simpler theories are better than more complex ones, other…… Read More »