Philosophy of science

Philosophy of biology has a long and honourable history.

Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems.

The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010.

Festschriften, when they are haphazard collections of pieces written by colleagues and well-wishers on the occasion of a major anniversary in the life of a distinguished man, tend to be tedious.

This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no power-usually, although not exclusively, animals.

A brand new edition of an internationally renowned science bestsellerNow well into its fourth decade, What is this thing called science?

In this book Emma Ruttkamp demonstrates the power of the full-blown employment of the model-theoretic paradigm in the philosophy of science.

Newton urged scientists never to speculate, only to prove by establishing experimental facts.

Modem philosophy of science has turned out to be a Pandora's box.

This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart.

"e;No matter what you may be selling, your business in China should be enormous, if the Chinese who should buy your goods would only do so.

“A sharp analysis of the quest for unreal critters―cryptids, as they are called―and the people who pursue them .

This is a comprehensive biography of Ludwig Prandtl (1875-1953), the father of modern aerodynamics.

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems.

These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton's work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas.

Our understanding of human rationality has changed significantly since the beginning of the century, with growing emphasis being placed on multiple rationalities, each adapted to the specific tasks of communities of practice.

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The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science began 2S years ago as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration of friends and colleagues in philosophy, logic, the natural sciences and the social sciences, psychology, religious studies, arts and literature, and often the celebrated man-in-the- street.

This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences.

Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy offers a new perspective on Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics as complementarity, and on the relationships between physics and philosophy in Bohr's work, which has had momentous significance for our understanding of quantum theory and of the nature of knowledge in general.

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking).

This volume of new essays explores Kant''s views on the laws of nature.

Since its development as a field over the last part of the twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have been heavily concerned with methodological issues.

What is it about art that can be so captivating?

The anthology presents a selection of methodological writings pub- lished by Polish logicians after World War 11 (the first of them dated 1947).

This work is an introduction to the totality of the metaphysical philosophy of nature of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966).

A philosophical examination of the deep past, and how paleontologists, archaeologists and geologists tell its story.

Going beyond the division of nature and society, this unique book explores human life as a process of biosocial becoming.

Quantentheorie und Relativitätstheorie haben das Weltbild der Physik revolutioniert.

Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices.

This is a thorough, very readable and excellently illustrated biography of Willem de Sitter (1872-1934), one of the most influential astronomers of his time, and also a co-author and correspondent of Einstein.

This book discusses a link between statistical theory and quantum theory based on the concept of epistemic processes.

This monograph presents the latest findings from a long-term research project intended to identify the physics behind Quantum Mechanics.

The book discusses the creative mental processes of the prehistoric and contemporaryartists, as well as of the archaeologists studying them from the perspective ofcognition and art.

What one can know depends on one's evidence.

This work presents and philosophically analyzes the early modern and modern history of the theory concerning the soul of the world, anima mundi.

This monograph presents a comprehensive, self-contained, and novel approach to the Divergence Theorem through five progressive volumes.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A "e;compelling chronicle"e; of the science, politics, and business of blood (The Wall Street Journal).

In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d'Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the velocity components; and how he tries to reduce the resistance of a moving body, which is a change of its momentum, to the hydrostatical pressure, which is related to the gravity.

This volume brings together a collection of essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S.

This book examines three connected aspects of Frege's logicism: the differences between Dedekind's and Frege's interpretation of the term 'logic' and related terms and reflects on Frege's notion of function, comparing its understanding and the role it played in Frege's and Lagrange's foundational programs.

 With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth.

This collection of essays explores the different ways the insights from complexity theory can be applied to law.

Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construct sound theories.