The Philosophy of Cosmology

The Philosophy of Cosmology
Author: Khalil Chamcham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2017-04-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107145392

This book addresses foundational questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology. As the foundational volume of an emerging academic discipline, experts from relevant fields lay out the fundamental problems of contemporary cosmology and explore the routes toward finding possible solutions, for a broad academic audience.

Modern Cosmology & Philosophy

Modern Cosmology & Philosophy
Author: John Leslie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Did the universe originate from a "big bang" as argued by leading astrophysicists and others? Or does some other theory more accurately describe its beginnings? Are there other forms of life in the universe? What about other universes? This volume discusses these and other topics in this hotly debated area where philosophy and science meet.

Process Cosmology

Process Cosmology
Author: Andrew M. Davis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030813967

This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead’s organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices. Integrating Whitehead’s thought with the insights of Bergson, James, Pierce, Merleau-Ponty, Descola, Fuchs, Hofmann, Grof and many others, contributors from around the world reveal the relevance of process philosophy to physics, cosmology, astrobiology, ecology, metaphysics, aesthetics, psychedelics, and religion. A global collection, this book expresses multivocal possibilities for the development of process cosmology after Whitehead.

Cosmology

Cosmology
Author: Norriss S. Hetherington
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000938468

This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. It presents articles on traditional Native American and Chinese cosmologies and traces the historical roots of western cosmology from Mesopotamia and pre-Socratic Greece to medieval cosmology.

Universes

Universes
Author: John Leslie
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1989
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415139557

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science
Author: Paul Humphreys
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 945
Release: 2016-08-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190630701

This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general philosophy of science. Section II covers what are considered to be the traditional topics in the philosophy of science, such as causation, probability, models, ethics and values, and explanation. Section III identifies new areas of investigation that show promise of becoming important areas of research, including the philosophy of astronomy and astrophysics, data, complexity theory, neuroscience, simulations, post-Kuhnian philosophy, post-empiricist epistemology, and emergence. Most chapters are accessible to scientifically educated non-philosophers as well as to professional philosophers, and the contributors - all leading researchers in their field -- bring diverse perspectives from the North American, European, and Australasian research communities. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and students.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology
Author: Helge Kragh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0192549979

Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are few and scattered. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of cosmology from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It provides historical background to what we know about the universe today, including not only the successes but also the many false starts. Big Bang theory features prominently, but so does the defunct steady state theory. The book starts with a chapter on the pre-Einstein period (1860-1910) and ends with chapters on modern developments such as inflation, dark energy and multiverse hypotheses. The chapters are organized chronologically, with some focusing on theory and others more on observations and technological advances. A few of the chapters discuss more general ideas, relating to larger contexts such as politics, economy, philosophy and world views.

Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy

Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy
Author: Ricardo Salles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108836577

Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.

A Philosophical Approach to MOND

A Philosophical Approach to MOND
Author: David Merritt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1108665683

Dark matter is a fundamental component of the standard cosmological model, but in spite of four decades of increasingly sensitive searches, no-one has yet detected a single dark-matter particle in the laboratory. An alternative cosmological paradigm exists: MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics). Observations explained in the standard model by postulating dark matter are described in MOND by proposing a modification of Newton's laws of motion. Both MOND and the standard model have had successes and failures – but only MOND has repeatedly predicted observational facts in advance of their discovery. In this volume, David Merritt outlines why such predictions are considered by many philosophers of science to be the 'gold standard' when it comes to judging a theory's validity. In a world where the standard model receives most attention, the author applies criteria from the philosophy of science to assess, in a systematic way, the viability of this alternative cosmological paradigm.