Philosophy of science Books

""Discours Sur L'Etude De La Philosophie Naturelle"" est un livre �����crit par John Frederick William Herschel en 1834. Dans ce livre, Herschel discute de l'importance de l'�����tude de la philosophie naturelle, qui est l'�����tude de la nature et de...

Das Buch ""Die Gef�����hlslehre in der neuesten franz������sischen Psychologie"" von Michael Savescu wurde im Jahr 1900 ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der aktuellen franz������sischen Psychologie und deren Theorien und Konzepten im...

""Die Vers������hnung von Intelligenz, Natur und Offenbarung: oder von Idealismus, Materialismus und Christentum"" ist ein Buch von Gustav Andreas Lautier, das im Jahr 1865 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk untersucht der Autor die Beziehung...

Scientific Order And Law As Traced By The Method Of Christ And Conceived To Be The Revealed Will Of God is a book written by John William Coutts in 1904. The book explores the relationship between science, religion, and the divine will of God. Coutts...

Scientific and Philosophical Treatises by Emanuel Swedenborg is a two-part book that was originally published in 1905. The book is a collection of essays and treatises written by the Swedish philosopher, theologian, and scientist Emanuel Swedenborg. Part...

Essays On Science And Theology is a book written by Albert Barnes and first published in 1866. The book is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between science and theology, and how they can be reconciled. Barnes was a prominent...

Le livre ""Considerations Sur Les Divers Systemes De Psychologie"" (1883) �����crit par Alphonse Gilardin est une �����tude approfondie des diff�����rents syst�����mes de psychologie qui ont �����t����� d�����velopp�����s au fil des si�����cles. L'auteur...

Le livre intitul����� ""Theologie Physique: Ou Demonstration De L�������Existence Et Des Attributs De Dieu"" a �����t����� �����crit par William Derham et publi����� en 1769. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de th�����ologie qui cherche ������ d�����montrer...

Philosophia Naturalis Adversus Aristotelem Libri XII est opus magnum Sebastieni Basson, quod in anno MDCLXXXXIX editum est. In hoc libro, auctor Aristotelis philosophiam naturalem impugnat et alios philosophos, qui Aristotelis doctrinam sequuntur,...

In "The Community Classroom: Learning and Growing Together," Avery Nightingale explores a transformative approach to education that transcends traditional classroom boundaries. Rooted in the concept of a human-centric learning environment, this book...

"The Dialectic of Spirit - Vol 1" is a profound exploration of the dynamic processes that shape consciousness, freedom, and the evolution of human thought. Rooted in dialectical philosophy, this volume examines how contradictions drive progress,...

This work embarks on a grand survey of history, archaeology, and modern physics, re-examining the past through the lens of quantum mechanics and the multiverse. It challenges the traditional linear view of time, exploring anomalies in the archaeological...

Were one to characterize the aims of this book ambitiously, it could be said to sketch the philosophical foundations or underpinnings of the scientific world view or, better, of the scientific conception of the world. In any...

The idea for this issue arose during a gathering of scholars to com­ memorate the hundredth anniversary of Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), the philosopher from Germany whose influence gave Austria its most characteristic ...

Within the last ten years, the interest of historians and philosophers of science in the epistemological writings of the Polish medical microbiologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), who had up to then been almost completely unknown,...

The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo­ quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25, 1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg, and Judith Goodstein!)...

a priori, and what is more, to a rejection based ultimately on a posteriori findings; in other words, the "pure" science of nature in Kant's sense of the term had proved to be, not only not pure, but even false. As for logic...

How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble dnd light, You may get there by candle-light. Any philosopher who takes more than a fleeting...

This is not "another collection of contributions on a traditional subject." Even more than we dared to expect during the preparatory stages, the papers in this volume prove that our thinking about science has taken a new turn...

The Lvov-Warsaw School was active in all spheres of philosophy. Its members worked in the border area between philosophy and disci­ plines such as psychology, linguistics, and literary theory. But its most important ...

This book is primarily about the methodological questions involved in attempts to understand two of the most peculiar phenomena in physics, both occurring at the lowest of temperatures. Superconductivity (the disappearance of...

The Law of Causality and its Limits was the principal philosophical work of the physicist turned philosopher, Philipp Frank. Born in Vienna on March 20, 1884, Frank died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 21, 1966. He received...

This collection of papers contains historical case studies, systematic contributions of a general nature, and applications to specific sciences. The bibliographies of the contributions contain references to all central items...

In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the most luminous Jewish intellectual since Talmudic times. Deeply learned in...

We act for reasons. But, it is sometimes claimed, the mental states and events that make up reasons, are not sufficient conditions of actions. Reasons never make actions happen. We- as agents (persons, selves, subjects) - make...

The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact...

Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also outlines such a logic. It is the logic of questions and answers. Thus inquiry in the...

Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words? This question has been a subject of debate since Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution was...

This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life presented in some 30 volumes of the Analecta Husserliana, and inaugurates a new phase in...

Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind. But he also thought that the two interact with one another. Is such interaction possible, however, without either a materialist reduction of mind to matter or an...

The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its inherent capacities...

In 1907 Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer defended his doctoral dissertation on the foundations of mathematics and with this event the modem version of mathematical intuitionism came into being. Brouwer attacked the main currents of...

In The Natural Background to Meaning Denkel argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development of forms of animal communication, and explains this process by naturalising the Locke-Grice approach...

Constructive mathematics is based on the thesis that the meaning of a mathematical formula is given, not by its truth-conditions, but in terms of what constructions count as a proof of it. However, the meaning of the terms...

Science and philosophy have both undergone radical transformations in recent times. Now they are poised for a pivotal alliance. Science has abandoned the mechanistic model of nature. Philosophy has broken through the tight,...

This work has grown out of the lecture notes that were prepared for a series of seminars on some selected topics in quantum logic. The seminars were delivered during the first semester of the 1993/1994 academic year in the Unit...

In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Judgments of taste based on feeling are a unique kind of judgment, and the feeling that is their foundation forms an independent third...

Self-individualization has been interpreted as the process in which the all-embracing Self unfolds into an infinite variety of different individ­ uals, plants, animals and men. A comparison of the different ways in which the...

In this volume specialists in mathematics, physics, and linguistics present the first comprehensive analysis of the ideas and influence of Hermann G. Graßmann (1809-1877), the remarkable universalist whose work recast the...