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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role. It is the first encompassing collection of articles on the metaphysics of potentials and potentiality.
Potentials...
Kant on Proper Science
Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This bookprovides a novel treatment of Immanuel Kant’s views on proper natural science and biology. The status of biology in Kant’s system of science is often taken to be problematic. By analyzing Kant’s philosophy of biology in relation to his conception of proper science, the present book...
Sweet Science
Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In Sweet Science, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged...
Varieties of Scientific Realism
Objectivity and Truth in Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades. Authoritative...
Science without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to,...
Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel: Volume 1
Formative Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Gregor Johann Mendel continues to fascinate the general public as well as scholars, the former for his life and the latter for his achievements. Solitude of a Humble Genius is a two-volume biography presenting Mendel in the context of the history of biology and philosophy, and in the context of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of...
Making Things Happen
A Theory of Causal Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life. His theory is a manipulationist account, proposing...
Social Phenomena
From Data Analysis to Models
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years, yielding many...
by E.B. Ruttkamp
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In this book Emma Ruttkamp demonstrates the power of the full-blown employment of the model-theoretic paradigm in the philosophy of science. Within this paradigm she gives an account of sciences as process and product. She expounds the "received statement" and the "non-statement"...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Methods in Neurosciences, Volume 3: Quantitative and Qualitative Microscopy is a collection of papers that deals with microscopic techniques in statistical measures.
This volume describes microscopy using sophisticated stains and dyes to advance observation of tests and experiments. Section I describes...
Inside the Human Genome
A Case for Non-Intelligent Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent--we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance--but do the imperfections extend down to the level of our genes? Inside the Human Genome is the first book to examine the philosophical question of why, from the perspectives of biochemistry...
Irrefutable Evidence
A History of Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The rise of scientific thinking in finding, catching, and convicting criminals—and, just as important, freeing the innocent—has transformed society's assault on crime. Before scientific detective work, early attempts to maintain public safety relied on the severity of punishment rather than any...
The Yamuna River Basin
Water Resources and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
This book is designed to provide concepts, methodologies, and approaches for river basin studies with respect to water resources and environment. The book is not limited to the Yamuna River basin, but will help in the study of various other river basins for integrated water resources management. The...