A structuralist perspective is one that sees the investigation of the structural features of a
domain of interest as the primary goal of enquiry. This vision has shaped research …

Simulation and Similarity is an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific
practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models. The main topics of …

At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical
position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position …

Place is a concept that can hardly be formally captured at the moment, as it is unclear how
instances of places can formally be represented and how conclusions about places can …

In The Structure of the World, Steven French articulates and defends the bold claim that
there are no objects. At the most fundamental level, modern physics presents us with a world …

Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI
is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature …

Debates about scientific realism are closely connected to almost everything else in the
philosophy of science, for they concern the very nature of scientific knowledge. Scientific …

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the
world really is the way our best scientific theories describe it. In his book, Stathis Psillos …

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically
omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the …

The behaviour of pendulums and bouncing springs was well-known by Newton's time, but
he represented both as systems subject to a force varying directly with the distance from a …