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After Postmodernism
A Naturalistic Reconstruction of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The philosophy of the humanistic sciences has been a blind-spot in analytic philosophy. This book argues that by adopting an appropriate pragmatic analysis of explanation and interpretation it is possible to show that scientific practice of humanistic sciences can be understood on similar lines to scientific practice of natural and social sciences.
The Kaleidoscope of Science
The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection is the first proceedings volume of the lectures delivered within the framework of the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, in its year of inauguration 1981-82. It thus marks the beginning of a new venture. Rather than attempting to express an ideology...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the...
Anticipatory Corpse, The
Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about...
Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God
Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This richly textured book bridges analytic and hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy of science. It features unique resources for students of the philosophy and history of quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen Interpretation, cognitive theory and the psychology of perception, the history and philosophy of art, and the pragmatic and historical relationships between religion and science.
Matter and Mind
A Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter?, and What is mind? A reason for tackling both problems in a single book is that two of the most influential views in modern philosophy are that the universe is mental (idealism), and that the...
Person in the World
Introduction to the Philosophy of Edith Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Edith Stein has become almost a legend in recent years largely because of her heroic personality and her death in Auschwitz at the hands of the Nazis. She is known also as an eminent German-jewish-Christian intellectual and feminist, but more in the realm of the sacred than of the secular. Both are...
Historical Pragmatics
Philosophical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
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 Butts with a volume entitled An Intimate Relation (Boston Studies vol. 116,...
Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Part I: Logic, Mathematics, Physics and History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit in the College de Quebec (founded 1635) dates from 1665, and the oldest logic manuscript dates from 1679. In English-speaking universities such as McGill (founded 1829), philosophy...
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1961/1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical...
The Tenseless Theory of Time
A Critical Examination
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
he present book and its companion volume The Tensed Theory of Time: a T Critical Examination are an attempt to adjudicate what one recent discussant has called "the most fundamental question in the philosophy of time," namely, "whether a static or a dynamic conception ofthe world is...
Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science
Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The two volumes to which this is apreface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science. The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) under the auspices of the IUHPS,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional,...
Catholic Philosophy of Education
The Church and Two Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Today’s pluralist and multicultural society raises questions about how to teach religiously and ethnically diverse students in Catholic schools. A Catholic Philosophy of Education addresses these challenges by examining the documents from the Roman Congregation for Catholic Education alongside the...