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Physics and Philosophy: Volume 4
Philosophical Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This collection of the writings of Paul Feyerabend is focused on his philosophy of quantum physics, the hotbed of the key issues of his most debated ideas. Written between 1948 and 1970, these writings come from his first and most productive period. These early works are important for two main reasons....
Representing and Intervening
Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1983
This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities....
Model Theory and the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice
Formalization without Foundationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Major shifts in the field of model theory in the twentieth century have seen the development of new tools, methods, and motivations for mathematicians and philosophers. In this book, John T. Baldwin places the revolution in its historical context from the ancient Greeks to the last century, argues...
Feyerabend and Scientific Values
Tightrope-Walking Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This book deals with the entrenched misunderstandings of Feyerabend's philosophy, brings together the positive elements to be found in Feyerabend's work, and presents these elements as a coherent alternative conception of scientific rationality. It is the first book-length study of Feyerabend's post-1970...
PSA 1970
In Memory of Rudolf Carnap Proceedings of the 1970 Biennial Meeting Philosophy of Science Association
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains the papers presented at the second biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Boston in Fall, 1970. We have added the paper by Jaakko Hintikka which he was unable to present due to illness, and we have unfortunately not received the paper of Michael Scriven....
An Intimate Relation
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Presented to Robert E. Butts on his 60th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The best philosophy of science during the last generation has been highly historical; and the best history of science, highly philosophical. No one has better exemplified this intimate relationship between history and philosophy than has Robert E. Butts in his work. Through out his numerous writings,...
Science and the Good
The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are doomed to fail
In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky recount the centuries-long, passionate quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The "new moral science" led by such figures as...
by Professor Richard Pring
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
This classic text in educational research literature has been thoroughly updated to take into account new philosophical theories and the current political context for educational research. Remaining, however, are the three, key central themes: the nature of social science in general; the nature of...
by Robin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Three lines of argument are central to this book: that Plato's views as expounded in the Republic indicate that he was a utilitarian; that utilitarianism is the only acceptable ethical theory; that these conclusions have significant repercussions for education. Throughout the book the exposition of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Scientism: The New Orthodoxy is a comprehensive philosophical overview of the question of scientism, discussing the role and place of science in the humanities, religion, and the social sciences.
Clarifying and defining the key terms in play in discussions of scientism, this collection identifies...
Education and Civilization
The Transmission of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It has been asserted that there is no one universal proposition with which all philosophers would agree, including this one. The pre dicament has rarely been recognized and almost never accepted, although neither has it been successfully challenged. If the claim holds true for philosophy taken by...
Kuhn's Legacy
Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Its influence reaches far beyond the philosophy of science, and its key terms, such as “paradigm shift,” “normal science,” and “incommensurability,” are now used in both...
Life in the Glory of Its Radiating Manifestations
25th Anniversary Publication Book I
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Western thought is surging, on the rebound from centuries of a merely background interest. Life is presenting crucial challenges to the human mind in science, technology, culture and social existence; challenges which reach the core of existence, human destiny, and the very meaningfulness - the human...
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"...