Original essays by leading philosophers of science explore the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalised - conducted as part of natural scie

Though science and philosophy take different approaches to ontology, metaphysical inferences are relevant to interpreting scientific work, and empirical investi

Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-inde

Scientific Metaphysics collects original essays by some of the world's leading philosophers of science on the question of whether metaphysics can and should be

What are the metaphysical commitments which best 'make sense' of our scientific practice (rather than our scientific theories)? In this book, Andreas Hüttemann