Philosophy of science Books

""Metafisica Scienza E Moralita"" ����� un libro del 1898 scritto da Francesco De Sarlo. Il libro tratta di argomenti filosofici come la metafisica, la scienza e la moralit������. De Sarlo esplora come questi tre argomenti siano collegati tra loro e come...

This volume builds on two recent developments in philosophy on the relationship between art and science: the notion of representation and the role of values in theory choice and the development of scientific theories. Its aim is to address questions...

The general view of Russell's work amongst philosophers has been that repeat­ edly, during his long and distinguished career, crucial changes of mind on fun­ damental points were significant enough to cause him to successively...

Preface. Knowledge, Faith and Skepticism; K. Lehrer. Discussion. Reasons and Causes for Belief; F. von Kutschera. Discussion. Change of Belief in Nonmonotonic Reasoning; G. Schurz. Discussion. The Case against Value-Free Belief; E. ...

I have always had a great interest in the philosophy of science. At first this interest led to reflections on the mathematical sciences;l later my focus shifted to the natural sciences;2 during the past twenty years or so my...

Introduction. One: The Deductive-Nomological Model Briefly Revisited. Two: Causal Conception and Causal Connection. Three: Identity and Unification. Four: Pragmatics. Five: Statics and Dynamics. Six: Supervenience and Reductionism. Seven: Laws...

We live in a space, we get about in it. We also quantify it, we think of it as having dimensions. Ever since Euclid's ancient geometry, we have thought of bodies occupying parts of this space (including our own bodies), the...

Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics and Morality. Distinguished authors from different European countries and...

In recent years, a large number of books and articles on Foucault has been published. Almost all of the book-size studies are expository and introductory. Indeed, there seems to be no other modern philosopher with reference to...

The topic to which this book is devoted is reductionism, and not reduction. The difference in the adoption of these two denominations is not, contrary to what might appear at first sight, just a matter of preference between a...

Though the subject of this work, "nominalism and contemporary nom­ inalism", is philosophical, it cannot be fully treated without relating it to data gathered from a great variety of domains, such as biology and more especially...

The concept of observability of entities in physical science is typically analyzed in terms of the nature and significance of a dichotomy between observables and unobservables. In this book, however, this categorization is...

The Philosophy of Natural Science, written by Richmond L. Bishop, is a comprehensive exploration of the philosophy behind natural science. The book delves into the fundamental principles and concepts that underlie scientific inquiry, including the nature...

"Holy Grail and Modern Science as Duality" reveals essential aspects about fundamental knowledge. Human mind at some time or another becomes inquisitive about its own nature. In the long, tedious search humanity went thru, some, did have the chance to...

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. Why Gould Was Wrong explains why Gould's claims were horribly wrong.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

 The publication in 1632 of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican　marked a crucial moment in the 'scientific revolution' and helped Galileo become the 'father of modern science'. The Dialogue　contains Galileo's...

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first...

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton...

Nel suo genere è un libro del tutto unico ed onora integralmente quello che il titolo promette: "Una buona filosofia pratica di vita".Gli argomenti trattati riguardano la quotidianità dell'uomo comune di oggi, vanno dalla pedofilia alla omosessualità,...

ZURÜCK ZU MARX ist eine nagelneue Losung der chinesischen akademischen Marxismus-Forschung. Die logische Prämisse dieses Tiefenmodells besteht darin, das theoretische Feld aufzuräumen und nach neuen theoretischen Beugungspunkten zu suchen...

Die Wissenschaftstheorie der letzten Jahrzehnte sah sich nur allzu leicht und oft zu Recht dem Verdacht ausgesetzt, sie wolle den Wissenschaften Vorschriften machen. Ist die Wissenschaftstheorie ein letzter Versuch der...

Die Wissenschaftstheorie versucht, die Grundlagen unseres Wis­ sens zu erforschen und den methodischen Gang wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis zu rekonstruieren. Traditionell wird das Fundament der empirischen Wissensenschaften in...

From stem cell research to intelligent design to global warming, political conflict over science is heating up. In his 2005 bestseller, The Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming...

RHETORIC AND INCOMMENSURABILITY examines the complex relationships among rhetoric, philosophy, and science as they converge on the question of incommensurability, the notion jointly (though not collaboratively) introduced to science studies in 1962 by...

""I Frazionamenti della Memoria e gli Errori della Coscienza"" ����� un libro scritto da Ernesto Bonvecchiato nel 1884. Il testo si concentra sullo studio della memoria e della coscienza, analizzando come queste funzioni cognitive possano essere...

The Scientific Worldview presents a balanced theoretical perspective that has profound implications for the social and physical sciences. Author Glenn Borchardt outlines the philosophical alternatives and those necessary for consistent scientific...

A. In the past, the elite manipulated the population through a more mystical belief system. In particular, there was the institution of Sun worship (typified by deities such as Osiris and Set). However, as antiquity gave way to modern history, this...

Can science explain everything? Brian Ridley, a physicist himself, explores this question and more in this compelling exploration of both the scope and limits of science. Tracing back to the roots of scientific thinking in a world of 'magical ideas', he...