Philosophy of science

Benjamin K.

This book provides a thorough and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of quantum physics.

This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question.

These notes consist of two parts: 1) Selected Topics in Geometry, New York University 1946, Notes by Peter Lax.

A Summary of Scientific Method is a brief description of what makes science scientific.

High technology capitalism utilizes computers, robots, and global information networks.

This book presents an elaborated argument for why functionalism, as well as other dematerialized and disembodied theories of mind, can't be right.

In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems, as a means to conceptualize the space of possibilities associated with casual and other capacities.

It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society.

The story of Hubble and Humason is one for the ages-and in particular, the Cosmic Age.

In this essay collection, leading physicists, philosophers, and historians attempt to fill the empty theoretical ground in the foundations of information and address the related question of the limits to our knowledge of the world.

Special centenary edition of Hind Swaraj, celebrating 100 years since the first publication of Mahatma Gandhi''s fundamental work.

There is a lot of confusion and misconception concerning science.

What is it to be scientific?

Philosophy of Social Science: A Contemporary Introduction examines perennial questions of philosophy through engaging the empirical study of society.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research.

Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves?

-Selected papers on Renaissance philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes offers the best work in these fields by the acclaimed historian of philosophy, Karl Schuhmann (1941-2003), displaying the extraordinary range and depth of his unique scholarship, -Topics covered include Renaissance philosophy of nature; the development of the notion of time in early modern philosophy; Telesio's concept of space; Hermetic influences on Pico, Patrizi and Hobbes; Hobbes's Short Tract; Spinoza and Hobbes; Hobbes's political philosophy, -This book brings together, in chronological arrangement, twelve papers.

Science and the Quest for Reality is an interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts.

Studies on different aspects of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy have been published during the last thirty years.

This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period.

Science has revolutionized our lives and continues to show inexorable progress today.

This brief book provides an overview of the gravitational orbital evolution of few-body systems, in particular those consisting of three bodies.

Franz Himpsl bietet einen philosophischen Beitrag zur Frage: Wie frei soll die Wissenschaft sein?

Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly wrong-headed beliefs.

Das Wissen, nach dem die Menschen streben, ist oft nur jenes Mindestmaß, dessen sie bedürfen, um ihr Leben zu fristen.

This book consists of an inventory of research projects on the impact of technology on society.

A definitive and authoritative guide to a vibrant and growing discipline in current philosophy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine presents an overview of the issues facing contemporary philosophy of medicine, the research methods required to understand them and a trajectory for the discipline's future.

The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.

Originally published in 1952.

The study of science, sometimes referred to as metascience, is a new and growing field that includes the philosophy of science, history of science, sociology of science, and anthropology of science.

This book develops and establishes knowledge about borderology in the border zone between different countries, cultures, and climatic environment.

How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century?

This book brings together the work of Wilfrid Sellars with work in 20th century phenomenology and 21st century speculative realism in order to think through one of the most important predicaments of contemporary philosophy.

Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development is a volume devoted to exploring the core theoretical and disciplinary research problems of emergence processes from which systems are established.

Why is understanding causation so important in philosophy and the sciences?

Science and Technology Ethics re-examines the ethics by which we live and asks the question: do we have in place the ethical guidelines through which we can incorporate these developments with the minimum of disruption and disaffection?

In the Introduction to the Polish-language version of the present book I expressed the hope that Polish studies in semiotics would before long be numerous enough to make possible another anthology on semiotics in Poland containing material published since 1970.

Energy is at the heart of physics and of huge importance to society and yet no book exists specifically to explain it, and in simple terms.

Anhand des Vergleichs verschiedener Erklärungstypen am Beispiel des Theologen Wolfhart Pannenberg und des Biologen Edward O.

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) ist vor allem bekannt als enfant terrible der Londoner Society, bizarr in Phantasie und Kostüm, penetrant in ihrem Anspruch auf Teilhabe am wissenschaftlichen Diskurs, skandalös in ihrem Streben nach Ruhm.