Philosophy of science

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "e;the necessary distance"e; has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications.

Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent.

The first comprehensive exploration of the nature and value of understanding, addressing burgeoning debates in epistemology and philosophy of science.

This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes.

Aus seiner jahrzehntelangen geomantischen Arbeit und den vielfältigen Kommunikationen mit anderen Sphären beschreibt Marko Pogačnik in diesem Buch, wie sich eine neue Erde allmählich und zuerst in der »kausalen« oder »archetypischen« Dimension heranbildet, um – nicht zuletzt durch unser Mittun – in unserer Dimension Gestalt anzunehmen.

Since the publication of Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim's ground-breaking work "e;Studies in the Logic of Explanation,"e; the theory of explanation has remained a major topic in the philosophy of science.

In this collection of essays, the four branches of radical cognitive science-embodied, embedded, enactive and ecological-will dialogue with performance, with particular focus on post-cognitivist approaches to understanding the embodied mind-in-society; de-emphasising the computational and representational metaphors; and embracing new conceptualisations grounded on the dynamic interactions of "e;brain, body and world"e;.

Potentiality, Entanglement and Passion-at-a-Distance is a book for theoretical physicists and philosophers of modern physics.

Science in the Forest, Science in the Past: Further Interdisciplinary Explorations comprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity.

This book, first published in 1938, is based upon the Muirhead lectures on political philosophy delivered in the University of Birmingham in January and February of 1938.

George Berkeley was considered "e;the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century"e;.

SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "e;Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De- velopment and European Expansion"e; is the product of an International Colloquium, "e;Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien- tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries"e;.

This book puts multilevel selection theory into a much needed historical perspective.

This book is an introduction to professional ethics in chemistry.

It has often been noted that a kind of double dynamics char- terizes the development of science.

Dieses Sachbuch stellt in prägnanter Form die Entwicklung und den Wissensstand der drei Gebiete Philosophie, Physik und Technik dar und will zum multidisziplinären Verständnis der Welt beitragen.

Dieses Buch wendet sich einem der großen Themen der Menschheit zu: dem irdischen Dasein als strukturierter Lebensspanne.

'HyperReality is a technological capability like nanotechnology, human cloning and artificial intelligence.

This is the first of two volumes comprising the papers submitted for publication by the invited participants to the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Florence, August 1995.

What is self-control?

Gertrudis Van de Vijver* Seminar of Logic and Epistemology University of Ghent Before being classified under the fashionable denominators of complexity and chaos, self-organization and autonomy were intensely inquired into in the cybernetic tradition.

Patterns of explanation in biology have long been recognized as different from those deployed in other scientific disciplines, especially that of physics.

Observability and Scientific Realism It is commonly thought that the birth of modern natural science was made possible by an intellectual shift from a mainly abstract and specuJative conception of the world to a carefully elaborated image based on observations.

A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science.

When the original Dutch version of this book was presented in 1971 to the University of Leiden as a thesis for the Doctorate in philosophy, I was prevented by the academic mores of that university from expressing my sincere thanks to three members of the Philosophical Faculty for their support of and interest in my pursuits.

The author of Charlatan is “the perfect armchair cosmonaut” for “a very funny and provocative rumination on the big move to off-planet real estate” (Mark Haskell Smith, author of Blown).

As society struggles to cope with the many repercussions of assisted life and death, the evening news is filled with stories of legal battles over frozen embryos and the possible prosecution of doctors for their patients' suicide.

InSeptember2000theArcheCentrelauncheda ve-yearresearchprojecten- tled the Logical and Metaphysical Foundations of Classical Mathematics.

A collection of new essays on Ernst Mach''s scientific and philosophical thought by leading Mach scholars.

Weiße Magie"Zwischen Himmel und Erde gibt es mehr, als die Naturwissenschaft erklären kann.

There is a need for integrated thinking about causality, probability and mechanisms in scientific methodology.

This book aims to provide an overview of several topics in advanced differential geometry and Lie group theory, all of them stemming from mathematical problems in supersymmetric physical theories.

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science.

Outlining Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), this volume assesses its viability as the leading alternative to the standard cosmological model.

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

The empirical study of consciousness is in constant progress.

Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism.

First published in 1900, this philosophical essay on Evolution questions how the acceptance of Evolution as scientific should influence the thoughts and actions of humankind from the perspective of morality and moral conduct.

In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision.

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

The problems I address in this book are among the least studied in the soci- ology of science and knowledge.

Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus is a history of atomic and nuclear physics.

This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984.

Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral: “Important and timely.

Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of science, yet there's been little reflection on its effects within scientific communities and beyond.

Throughout the chapters, the authors take readers through the various uses of technology.

Comprehensive and authoritative, this book, written by a recognized authority on the subject explores the contributions to modern economics by John Maynard Keynes and addresses neglected, yet crucial aspects of the genesis of Keynesian economics.

This book describes the picture of reality given by Newton, and the development of the later picture of reality given by field theory.