{"title":"Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoutledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a rigorous exploration of the fundamental questions that underpin scientific inquiry. This series provides thoughtful analyses of key concepts such as explanation, theory, and methodology, inviting readers to engage deeply with the nature and practice of science across disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those interested in the intersection of philosophy, history, and science, the collection illuminates complex debates with clarity and insight. It is an essential resource for scholars and readers drawn to critical reflections on how knowledge is constructed and understood in both the natural and social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"conceptual-change-and-the-philosophy-of-science-by-david-j-stump-9781138890138","title":"Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStump emphasises the unique epistemological status of the constitutive elements of scientific theories. These constitutive elements are the necessary preconditions that must be assumed to conduct a particular scientific inquiry. Elements such as logic, mathematics, and even some fundamental laws of nature were once considered a priori knowledge but can change, leading to a dynamic or relative a priori.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStump critically examines developments in thinking about constitutive elements in science as a priori knowledge, from Kant’s fixed and absolute a priori to Quine’s holistic empiricism. By examining the relationship between conceptual change and the epistemological status of constitutive elements in science, Stump puts forward an argument that scientific revolutions can be explained and relativism can be avoided without resorting to universals or absolutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605255569644,"sku":"9781138890138","price":667.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138890138-conceptual-change-and-the-philosophy-of-science.jpg?v=1778129036"},{"product_id":"when-metaphysics-meets-biology-by-philippe-huneman-9781138596054","title":"When Metaphysics Meets Biology","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book explains the background and meaning of Kant’s account of the life sciences in the \u003cem\u003eCritique of the Power of Judgement\u003c\/em\u003e by reading the development of Kant’s ideas on the living since his 1763 precritical essays, in parallel with analyzing several milestones in the constitution of the concept of organism as a self-organized totality, studied by biology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis parallel reading frames Kant’s account of biology against influential theories developed by earlier scientists and naturalists, including Leibniz, Stahl, French vitalists, Albrecht von Haller, Caspar Wolff, and Buffon, as well as his almost contemporaries such as Goethe and Cuvier. It reveals that Kant’s inquiry about \u003cem\u003eteleological judgment\u003c\/em\u003e ties in with important advances in his time about the organism as an integrated, functioning, and self-organizing entity. It explains how Kant’s idea of \u003cem\u003epurposiveness\u003c\/em\u003e, formulated in the context of a metaphysical inquiry about the order of the world and its knowledge, hence of contingency \u003cem\u003egeneraliter\u003c\/em\u003e, became detached from the notion of intention, thus ascribing it a new meaning tied to autonomous biological practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen, considering 19th-century biologists, it provides the genealogy of a post-Darwinian theoretical space in which biologists formulate complementary or competing accounts of organisms as developmental systems in evolution and within which theoretical cleavages are generated. It thereby explains how the two theoretical trends known as form-centered and function-centered biology, now defined as “developmental” and “adaptationist“ viewpoints, emerged as two distinct perspectives from a concept of “natural purposiveness” unified by Kant’s transcendental perspective; then it unravels the way they currently articulate, against the background of their genesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen Metaphysics Meets Biology\u003c\/em\u003e offers a philosophical interpretation of the emergence of biology in relation to Kant’s thinking and sheds light on the philosophical issues currently embedded within the conceptual structure of biology. 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