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  • Historical Pragmatics Historical Pragmatics
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    Historical Pragmatics

    For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E. Butts have been a notable and welcome part of European and North American philosophy. A few years ago, James Robert Brown and Jiirgen Mittelstrass feted Professor...
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    The Logic of Discovery

    Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments whereby the best objectives (questions) and optimal means for achieving these objectives (heuristics) are...
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  • Hegel and Newtonianism Hegel and Newtonianism
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    Hegel and Newtonianism

    It could certainly be argued that the way in which Hegel criticizes Newton in the Dissertation, the Philosophy of Nature and the lectures on the History of Philosophy, has done more than anything else to prejudice his own...
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  • Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy
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    Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy

    Since the Niels Bohr centenary of 1985 there has been an astonishing international surge of scholarly analyses of Bohr's philosophy. Now for the first time in Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy Jan Faye and Henry Folse...
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  • The Quantum Labyrinth The Quantum Labyrinth
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    The Quantum Labyrinth

    At the outset of the research leading to this book I held a position somewhere close to 'the standard Copenhagen interpretation' of QM. I was strongly attracted to, in particular, the philosophy of Niels Bohr. However, being...
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  • Mathematics in Society and History Mathematics in Society and History
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    Mathematics in Society and History

    Prologue. Part I: Introduction. 1. Mathematics and Culture. An introduction to Oswald Spengler's pioneering work on `numbers and culture' in The Decline of the West. This is the source of a `weak' sociology of mathematical traditions, and a `strong'...
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  • The Invention of Physical Science The Invention of Physical Science
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    The Invention of Physical Science

    Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations. Contemporary scientific explanation is rigorously ...
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  • Existence and Explanation Existence and Explanation
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    Existence and Explanation

    This collection of essays is dedicated to 'Joe' Karel Lambert. The contributors are all personally affected to Joe in some way or other, but they are definitely not the only ones. Whatever excuses there are - there are some -,...
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  • Faraday to Einstein Faraday to Einstein
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    Faraday to Einstein

    Einstein often expressed the sentiment that "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility," and that science is the means through which we comprehend it. However, nearly every­ one - including scientists - agrees...
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  • Empiricism and Darwin's Science Empiricism and Darwin's Science
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    Empiricism and Darwin's Science

    I would like to record my thanks to Paul Thompson for useful conver­ sations over the years, and also to several generations of students who have helped me develop my ideas on biological theory and on Darwin. My wife has, as...
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  • Freedom and Rationality Freedom and Rationality
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    Freedom and Rationality

    x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of methodologi­ cal individualism, a debate which continues to this day, and which has inspired a literature as great as any in contemporary philosophy. Few...
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    Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy

    Why did the two most influential philosophers in the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, write in such a curious fashion that they confused a whole generation of disciples and created a cottage industry...
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  • The Self-Writing Universe The Self-Writing Universe
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    The Self-Writing Universe

    Did Our Universe Write Itself? Who says there's no such thing as an answer to "How is there anything at all"? The Self-Writing Universe considers the most confounding puzzle we can ask ourselves - how and why is there anything at all instead of simply...
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  • The Chances Of Death V1 The Chances Of Death V1
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    The Chances Of Death V1

    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...
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  • Time for Science Education Time for Science Education
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    Time for Science Education

    The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer­ tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into...
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  • Models as Make-Believe Models as Make-Believe
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    Models as Make-Believe

    Scientists often try to understand the world by creating simplified or idealised models of it. And yet modelling is hard to make sense of, not least because it seems to involve learning about things that don't exist, like ideal oscillators or perfect...
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  • A Means to an End A Means to an End
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    A Means to an End

    Why do we age? Is aging inevitable? Will advances in medical knowledge allow us to extend the human lifespan beyond its present limits? Because growing old has long been the one irreducible reality of human existence, these intriguing questions arise...
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  • Todos los colores del enredo cuántico Todos los colores del enredo cuántico
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    Todos los colores del enredo cuántico

    El libro está dividido en tres partes. En la primera parte (Las intuiciones) el autor discute las hipótesis más relevantes sobre la realidad ilusoria del mundo perceptible. Los grandes pensadores han previsto la existencia de un...
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  • The Luminous Web The Luminous Web
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    The Luminous Web

    With her customary grace, intelligence and wit, Barbara Brown Taylor wonders why science and faith have become polarized in the popular imagination. She explores what quantum physics, the new biology and chaos theory can teach people of faith and why...
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  • Biology Under the Influence Biology Under the Influence
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    Biology Under the Influence

    How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it...
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  • Science and the Structure of Ethics Science and the Structure of Ethics
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    Science and the Structure of Ethics

    Initially prepared as part of the Foundations of the Unity of Science volumes under the auspices of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Science and the Structure of Ethics soon took on a life of its own. Well positioned in the naturalistic...
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  • Ocean Acidity Climate Shock Ocean Acidity Climate Shock
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    Ocean Acidity Climate Shock

    Ocean Acidity Climate Shock analyzes a serious element of climate changethe progressive acidity of the oceans as they absorb and reach their limits of carbon dioxide absorption. The author, who has worked as a mathematical, chemical, electrical,...
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  • The Willing The Willing
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    The Willing

    The Willing outlines an opportunity for new and positive ways to guide the reader, who may in turn, alter social behavior for the betterment of all. Herein are guidelines for proper breathing, thinking, speaking and acting. Personal responsibility is...
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    Discourse on the Method of Rightly...

    If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in...
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  • Metadebates on Science Metadebates on Science
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    Metadebates on Science

    How do scientists approach science? Scientists, sociologists and philosophers were asked to write on this intriguing problem and to display their results at the International Congress `Einstein Meets Magritte'. The outcome...
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  • Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism
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    Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism

    The aim of this book is to interpret all the laws of classical electromagnetism in a modern coherent way. In a typical undergraduate course using vector analysis, the students finally end up with Maxwell's equations, when they...
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  • Encyclopedia and Utopia Encyclopedia and Utopia
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    Encyclopedia and Utopia

    The present Volume 4 of the Vienna Circle Yearbook is dedicated to Otto Neurath, one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle and one of last polymaths representative of the vanished culture from which the Circle emerged...
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  • On Truth On Truth
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    On Truth

    The present publication forms part of a projected book that F. P. Ramsey drafted but never completed. It survived among his papers and ultimately came into the possession of the University of Pittsburgh in the circumstances...
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  • The Cognitive Turn The Cognitive Turn
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    The Cognitive Turn

    If nothing else, the twelve papers assembled in this volume should lay to rest the idea that the interesting debates about the nature of science are still being conducted by "internalists" vs. "externalists,"" rationalists" vs...
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    Goodbye Mom

    This book is not a biography about a man, but rather it is about a Journey. This is a Journey through life, with this illness, Bipolar Disorder, and all the dynamics that go along with it. This book shows how a man faced the consequences of this disease,...
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  • The Evolution Of New Japan (1913) The Evolution Of New Japan (1913)
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    The Evolution Of New Japan (1913)

    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...
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  • Indian National Evolution Indian National Evolution
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    Indian National Evolution

    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...
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  • First And Fundamental Truths First And Fundamental Truths
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    First And Fundamental Truths

    ""First And Fundamental Truths: Being A Treatise On Metaphysics"" is a book written by James McCosh and published in 1889. The book delves into the fundamental principles of metaphysics, exploring the nature of reality and the basic truths that underlie...
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  • Logic In Three Books V1 Logic In Three Books V1
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    Logic In Three Books V1

    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...
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  • Understanding Understanding Understanding Understanding
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    Understanding Understanding

    In these ground-breaking essays, Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. The author was one of...
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  • The Applicability of Mathematics in Science The Applicability of Mathematics in Science
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    The Applicability of Mathematics in Science

    The study of natural resource extraction in resourcerich countries often shows that plunder, rather than prosperity, has become the norm. Management of natural resources differs widely in every state; a close examination of the decision making chains in...
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