Philosophy of science

Provides an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.

Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.

This book offers fresh perspective on the role of phenomenology in the philosophy of physics which opens new avenues for discussion among physicists, "e;standard"e; philosophers of physics and philosophers with phenomenological leanings.

Originally published in 1976.

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early -- though not always under that name -- in the Australasian region.

This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question.

Stamps and other postal documents are an attractive vehicle for presenting astronomy and its development.

How do scientific conjectures become laws?

A History of Chinese Science and Technology (Voulumes 1, 2 & 3) presents 44 individual lectures, beginning with Ancient Chinese Science and Technology in the Process of Human Civilizations and An Overview of Ancient Chinese Science and Technology, and continuing with in-depth discussions of several issues in the history of science and the Needham Puzzle, interspersed with topics on Astronomy, Arithmetic, Agriculture, and Medicine, The Four Great Inventions, and various technological areas closely related to clothing, food, shelter, and transportation.

This important and innovative collection of essays argues for a patchwork of laws of nature.

Technoscientific developments often have far-reaching consequences, both negative and positive, for the public.

This book provides an overview of the history of interactions between science and religion, with an emphasis on Christianity.

This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation.

This book provides a framework for approaching ethical and policy dilemmas in research with human subjects from the perspective of trust.

Are Milton's Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan's "e;Star Wars"e; missile defense program, our culture's fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan's views on racial Armageddon somehow linked?

This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart.

This book argues that the theory of sustainable development lost some of its rigor because of two main reasons.

Originally published in 1970.

In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe.

This book provides a general framework for understanding nature to revive the philosophical study of nature as a complementary research project to the empirical exploration of nature.

The boundaries between inanimate technology and the realm of the living become increasingly blurred.

Fifty years have passed since Norwood Russell Hanson's unexpected death, yet he remains an important voice in philosophy of science.

As an academic discipline, the philosophy and history of science in Turkey was marked by two historical events: Hans Reichenbach's immigrating to Turkey and taking a post between 1933 and 1938 at Istanbul University prior to his tenure at UCLA, and Aydin Sayili's establishing a chair in the history of science in 1952 after having become the first student to receive a Ph.

Der Band zeichnet die Lebensstationen des Naturforschers und Naturphilosophen Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) nach und will damit in dessen 150.

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades.

Re-crafting Rationalization contributes to debates relating to the public understanding of science, regarding the conceptualization of the relationship between 'science' and 'the public'.

This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as 'reality' and 'truth' with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology.

From the two sources of human knowledge (empirical knowledge, logical analysis), Bauberger develops two basic questions of scientific theory, according to which the book is structured: First, scientific theory reflects the methods of the empirical sciences and thus provides assistance for their use.

This book offers a fresh perspective on some of the central experimental and theoretical works that laid the foundations for today's quantum mechanics: It traces the theoretical and mathematical development of the hypotheses that put forward to explain puzzling experimental results; it also examines their interconnections and how they together evolved into modern quantum theory.

3 in philosophy, and therefore in metaphilosophy, cannot be based on rules that avoid spending time on pseudo-problems.

twentieth-century literature about the distinction between explanation and und- standing)?

Towards a Sustainable University tackles the challenge of sustainability in universities.

This book presents quantum theory as a theory based on new relationships among matter, thought, and experimental technology, as against those previously found in physics, relationships that also redefine those between mathematics and physics in quantum theory.

All students of mathematics know of Peano's postulates for the natural numbers and his famous space-filling curve, yet their knowledge often stops there.

Philosophy of mind has been one of the most active fields in philosophy for the past three decades.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Materialismus – Wissenschaft und Weltanschauung ım Fortschritt" verfügbar.

Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology identifies, champions and vindicates a streamlined evolutionary psychology.

In this small book, theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel prize 1999), philosopher Emanuele Severino (Lincei Academician), and theologian Piero Coda (Pontifical Lateran University) confront one another on a topic that lies at the roots of quantum mechanics and at the origin of Western thought: Determinism and Free Will.

Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science.

How did empirical research become the cornerstone of modern science?

Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo's formation?

First published in 1951 to coincide with the British Festival, this book explores the developments in science which had occurred since the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

Christian Kiesow zeigt auf, wie körperliche Performanz, situative Interaktion und Visualität wesentlich zur Konstitution mathematischen Wissens – einem Bereich, der gemeinhin als Domäne rein abstrakten Denkens gilt – beitragen.