Böcker av Paul Humphreys

This Handbook combines coverage of traditional areas in the philosophy of science, such as causation, explanation, and theory structure, with chapters on new areas such as philosophy of astronomy, data, complexity theory, and emergence. The articles are accessible to scientifically educated non-philosophers as well as to philosophers.

Emergence develops a novel account of diachronic ontological emergence called transformational emergence and locates it in an established historical framework. The author shows how many problems affecting ontological emergence result from a dominant but inappropriate metaphysical tradition and provides a comprehensive assessment of current theories of emergence.

Focusing on psychology teaching in schools, FE colleges and undergraduate courses, this work presents 19 practicals, covering discussion and report writing, data analysis, graphical and statistical presentation of findings and the ethics of experimentation.