📚 Philosophy and Science

Books with philosophy and science on their catalogue record, first published between 1624 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject philosophy and science in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,423 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy	John Frederick William Herschel	1831	36
	The Tao of Physics	Fritjof Capra	1975	35
	Physics and philosophy	Werner Heisenberg	1958	27
	The Analysis of Matter	Bertrand Russell	1927	23
	Brief Answers to the Big Questions	Stephen Hawking	2014	16
	Sagesse et illusions de la philosophie	Jean Piaget	1965	13
	De augmentis scientiarum	Francis Bacon	1624	12
	Nine chains to the moon	R. Buckminster Fuller	1938	9
	Fuzzy thinking	Bart Kosko	1993	9
	The Dramatic Universe	Bennett, John G.	1956	8
	Philosophy and Scientific Realism	J. J. C. Smart	1963	8
	Scientism	Tom Sorell	1991	7
	'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'	Erwin Schrödinger	1996	7
	Ce qui nous fait penser. La nature et la règle	Jean-Pierre Changeux	1998	7
	Sounds	Casey O'Callaghan	2007	7
	Are You an Illusion?	Mary Midgley	2015	7
	Other Minds	Peter Godfrey-Smith	2016	7
	Life Is a Miracle	Wendell Berry	2000	6
	Thales of Miletus	Patricia F. O'Grady	2002	6
	On the Meaning of Life	John Cottingham	2003	6
	Philosophy and the sciences in antiquity	R. W. Sharples	2005	6
	Experimental Philosophy and Its Critics	Joachim Horvath	2012	6
	Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy	John Mingers	2014	6
	Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science	J. Nelson	1899	5
	Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750	Lorraine Daston	1998	5
	The bond	Lynne McTaggart	2011	5
	Ontological Landscapes	Vesselin Petrov	2011	5
	Le matérialisme et la science	E. Caro	1867	4
	Constructivism and science	Robert E. Butts	1899	4
	Architects of ideas	Ernest R. Trattner	1938	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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