Philosophy of science

The thirty-one papers collected in this volume represent most of the arti- cles that I have published in the philosophy of science and related founda- tional areas of science since 1970.

Much of Duhem's work as a professional scientist was closely related to the newly emerging discipline of physical chemistry.

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself.

How do scientists approach science?

This book is a historical-epistemological study of one of the most consequential breakthroughs in the history of celestial mechanics: Robert Hooke's (1635-1703) proposal to "e;compoun[d] the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent & an attractive motion towards a centrat body"e; (Newton, The Correspondence li, 297.

In contributing a foreword to this book I am complying with a wish my husband expressed a few days before his death.

In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the most luminous Jewish intellectual since Talmudic times.

Human and machine discovery are gradual problem-solving processes of searching large problem spaces for incompletely defined goal objects.

What is truth?

Science and philosophy have both undergone radical transformations in recent times.

Medicine's crucial concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts, means change with the advance of science and social life.

This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life presented in some 30 volumes of the Analecta Husserliana, and inaugurates a new phase in philosophy/phenomenology - a truly radical turn.

Historical accounts of successful laboratories often consist primarily of reminiscences by their directors and the eminent people who studied or worked in these laboratories.

A vivid and comprehensive picture of the current state of research in all directions of logic and philosophy of science.

I am very grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the opportunity to republish these articles about knowledge and language.

Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports?

This book is based on my doctoral dissertation from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996) of the same title.

John von Neumann (1903-1957) was undoubtedly one of the scientific geniuses of the 20th century.

The aim of this book is to interpret all the laws of classical electromagnetism in a modern coherent way.

In his essay on 'Broad on Induction and Probability' (first published in 1959, reprinted in this volume), Professor G.

Burtt's book, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, is something of a puzzle within the context of twentieth-century intellectual history, especially American intellectual history.

This anthology consists of a collection of papers on the nature of dis- positions and the role of disposition concepts in scientific theories.

Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensively and originally in a global perspective including the history of early modern China and Japan.

This ninth volume is one of the most arnbitious in the Philosophy and Technology series.

This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc- tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London.

Although Descartes' natural philosophy marked an advance in the development of modern science, many critics over the years, such as Newton, have rejected his particular `relational' theory of space and motion.

Bell's Theorem and its associated implications for the nature of the physical world remain topics of great interest.

The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975.

This collection brings together several essays which have been written between the years 197 5 and 1983.

The Scope of the Project The concept of holism is at the centre of far-reaching changes in various areas of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century.

This volume includes in its special part recent contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view and of the highest topicality: the range of the topics is covering all fields in the philosophy of the science provided by authors from Europe, America and around the world focussing on ancient , modern and contemporary periods in the development of the science philosophy.

The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975.

perceptual essences that can be rendered directly manifest in perception with the help of theoretically structured instruments serving as 'readable technologies'.

hose who think about time are thinking deeply.

What essentially is a garden?

When von Neumann's and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior appeared in 1944, one thought that a complete theory of strategic social behavior had appeared out of nowhere.

For both continental and analytic styles of philosophy, the thought of Martin Heidegger must be counted as one of the most important influences in contemporary philosophy.

Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be smoothly sythesizable.

The more traditional approaches to the history and philosophy of science and technology continue as well, and probably will continue as long as there are skillful practitioners such as Carl Hempel, Ernest Nagel, and th~ir students.

Foundations of Bayesianism is an authoritative collection of papers addressing the key challenges that face the Bayesian interpretation of probability today.

Every philosopher of science, and every student of the philosophy of science, has heard of Paul Feyerabend: the iconoclast who supposedly asserted that science is not rational, nor objective, but is characterised by anarchism, relativism, subjectivism and power.

In this book, Veikko Rantala makes a systematic attempt to understand cognitive characteristics of translation by bringing its logical, pragmatic and hermeneutic features together and examining a number of scientific, logical, and philosophical applications.

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.

In a ground-breaking series of articles, one of them written by a Nobel Laureate, this volume demonstrates the evolutionary dynamic and the transformation of today's democratic societies into scientific-democratic societies.

The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science.

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From the very beginning it was realised that quantum physics involves radically new interpretative and epistemological consequences.

The Encyclopaedia fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural stud- ies.

The eminent philosopher of science Carl G.