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The Metaphysics of Science
An Account of Modern Science in terms of Principles, Laws and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981. One of its topics, the distinction between scientific laws and theories, is there treated with reference to the same distinction as drawn by N. R. Campbell in his Physics: The Elements. Shortly after...
Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory
Nietzsche and the Sciences I
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic, but Cartesian, Leibnizian, Kantian, and post-Kantian -through...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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 philosophical voice between the two world wars. He was cut off, tragically, in his...
Scientific Knowledge
Causation, Explanation, and Corroboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With this defense of intensional realism as a philosophical foundation for understanding scientific procedures and grounding scientific knowledge, James Fetzer provides a systematic alternative to much of recent work on scientific theory. To Fetzer, the current state of understanding the 'laws' of...
Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change
An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars’ Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this essay I am concerned with the problem of conceptual change. There are, needless to say, many ways to approach the issue. But, as I see it, the problem reduces to showing how present and future systems of thought are the rational extensions of prior ones. This goal may not be attainable. Kuhn,...
by Harold N. Lee, Edward G. Ballard, Stephen C. Pepper
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Foundations of Scientific Inference
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
After its publication in 1967, The Foundations of Scientific Inference taught a generation of students and researchers about the problem of induction, the interpretation of probability, and confirmation theory. Fifty years later, Wesley C. Salmon’s book remains one of the clearest introductions...
by James K. Feibleman, Paul G. Morrison, Andrew J. Reck
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The year 1959 has been called The Centennial Year in view of the anniversary of the publication of The Origin of SPecies and the centenary of the births of many who later contributed much to the philosophy of the recent past, such as Samuel Alexander, Henri Bergson, John Dewey and Edmund Husser!'...
The Philosophy of Primary Education (RLE Edu K)
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume provides a rigorous examination of theoretical concepts such as need, interest, growth, play, experience, activity and self-expression. It also makes an important contribution towards getting a closely argued educational theory. In the first part of the book the author establishes general...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Arguing About Science is an outstanding, engaging introduction to the essential topics in philosophy of science, edited by two leading experts in the field. This exciting and innovative anthology contains a selection of classic and contemporary readings that examine a broad range of issues, from classic...
by Paul Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Interest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet the concept continues to be viewed with skepticism by many. In this book, Paul Humphreys argues that many of the problems arise from a long philosophical tradition that is overly committed to synchronic reduction...
Time of Nature and the Nature of Time
Philosophical Perspectives of Time in Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. Its aim is to provide some insights about the nature of time on the basis of the different uses of the concept of time in natural sciences. Presenting a dialogue between philosophy and science, it features a collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy history. But how profoundly has chance shaped life...
The Ideal and the Real
An Outline of Kant’s Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Many students coming to grips with Kant's philosophy are understandably daunted not only by the complexity and sheer difficulty of the man's writings, but almost equally by the amount of secondary literature available. A great deal of this seems to be - and not only on first reading - just about as...