Philosophy of science

Tetens unternimmt den Versuch, Dinglers Fragestellungen nach dem »Wesen des Experiments« und der Rolle, die das Experiment für die Begriffs- und Theoriebildung spielt, erneut aufzugreifen, ohne sich seinen Auffassungen über die Relativitätstheorie und Quantenmechanik anzuschließen.

This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.

Invite children to embark on another adventure to discover more about God and His incredible creation.

When it comes to relating Christianity to modern Western culture, perhaps no topic is more controversial than the relationship between Christianity and science.

It is hard to think of an area of Christian theology that provides more scope for interdisciplinary conversation than the doctrine of creation.

The definitive reference work on science and Christian belief How does Christian theology relate to scientific inquiry?

The book presents thirty great Chinese inventions, both ancient and modern, which are original, distinct, have made outstanding contributions and had extensive influence in China and around the globe.

This book is a critical appraisal of the status of the so-called Climate Sciences (CS).

This book provides a unique survey displaying the power of Riccati equations to describe reversible and irreversible processes in physics and, in particular, quantum physics.

Bringing together international research on nature of science (NOS) representations in science textbooks, the unique analyses presented in this volume provides a global perspective on NOS from elementary to college level and discusses the practical implications in various regions across the globe.

During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "e;unfit"e; members of society.

This book addresses the need to develop a holistic approach to countering violence that integrates notions of peace, justice and care of the Earth.

Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry.

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.

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer.

This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a wide spectrum of contributors committed to testing the validity of this dichotomy, exploring alternatives, and assessing their implications.

Rom Harre has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology.

Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study.

Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems in philosophy.

The global ecological crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever had to confront, and humanity is failing.

This book promotes entirely new insights into women's contributions to the history of philosophy and boasts papers spanning the centuries from Antigone until twentieth century phenomenology, covering fields from logic to mysticism, stretching from Brazil to Early Modern Europe.

This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen's characterization of representation and models in science.

Biology and history are often viewed as closely related disciplines, with biology informed by history, especially in its task of charting our evolutionary past.

At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science.

This book presents the heritage of the Lvov-Warsaw School from both the historical and the philosophical perspective.

This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history.

This thesis reveals how the feedback trap technique, developed to trap small objects for biophysical measurement, could be adapted for the quantitative study of the thermodynamic properties of small systems.

This book argues that science and the arts are not two different cultures, but rather different manifestations of the same culture.

This book describes a relativistic quantum theory developed by the author starting from the E.

This book brings together about 2,500 quotations on various topics of interest to scientists and engineers, including students of STEM disciplines.

Mit diesem Buch entwirrt Jean Bricmont die vermeintlichen Rätsel und Mysterien der Quantenmechanik und erklärt Laien die Grundprinzipien der Quantentheorie.

The monograph aims to present the recent scientific knowledge on body sensations, i.

This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society.

This book addresses a wide range of topics relating to the properties and behavior of condensed matter under extreme conditions such as intense magnetic and electric fields, high pressures, heat and cold, and mechanical stresses.

This book shows how Bohmian mechanics overcomes the need for a measurement postulate involving wave function collapse.

In Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships, Neil H.

This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in exact sciences.

This biography is a short yet comprehensive overview of the life of Meghnad Saha, the mastermind behind the frequently used Saha equations and a strong contributor to the foundation of science in India.

Whether understood in a narrow sense as the popular works of a small number of (white male) authors, or as a larger more diffuse movement, twenty-first century scholars, journalists, and activists from all 'sides' in the atheism versus theism debate, have noted the emergence of a particular form of atheism frequently dubbed 'New Atheism'.

This book examines the philosophical conception of abductive reasoning as developed by Charles S.

This book is uniquely about the relationship between the optical telescope and astronomy as they developed together.

This richly illustrated book discusses the ways in which astronomy expanded after 1945 from a modest discipline to a robust and modern science.

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

This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history.

This volume is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) counted among the influential twentieth-century philosophers of science.

This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics.

In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene (the age of humanity).

This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant's development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781.

This book is a tribute to the scientific legacy of GianCarlo Ghirardi, who was one of the most influential scientists in the field of modern foundations of quantum theory.