Philosophy of science

The first volume to integrate life''s biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.

Why absolute certainty is impossible in scienceIn today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers-and often blame it when things go wrong.

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

What becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds human reason in the creative evolution of life?

There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING in 1957, the Royal Society of Canada, celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of its foundation, departed from the accustomed pattern of its meetings.

A major synthesis of homology, written by a top researcher in the fieldHomology-a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's wing-is one of the most fundamental yet challenging concepts in evolutionary biology.

It offers readers bold ideas about how to think with greater humanistic coherence.

What are the reasons for believing scientific theories to be true?

This book presents the first ecocritical study of novelist, philosopher, poet and public intellectual Iris Murdoch (1919–1999).

Offering a new approach to scientific explanation, this book focuses initially on the explaining act itself.

The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts.

Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity.

This compact and elegant work (equally fitting for both academic as well as the trade audiences) provides a readily accessible and highly readable overview of Bhutan's unique opportunities and challenges; all her prominent environmental legislation, regulatory statutes, ecological customs and practices, both in historic and contemporary terms.

This monograph presents a unitary account of Dewey's philosophy of science and demonstrates the relevance for contemporary debates.

Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic, but Cartesian, Leibnizian, Kantian, and post-Kantian -through essays on Nietzsche's critique of knowledge via his critique of grammar and modern culture, and culminates in an extended section on the dynamic of Nietzsche's critical philosophy seen from the perspective of Habermas and critical theory.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker's "e;Aufbau der Physik"e;, first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong concern: an understanding of the unity of physics.

There has been an explosion of work on consciousness in the last 30-40 years from philosophers, psychologists, and neurologists.

This book presents a collection of old and new essays exploring the author's unique contributions to the sociology of science, mathematics, logic, robotics, brain, and god.

Einstein once remarked "e;After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form.

As Russell said The word matter is, in philosophy, the name of a problem and our scientific investigations and philosophical inquiries show that it becomes more and more complex and interesting as we study it.

This collection provides a thoughtful overview of the debate about the status of economic knowledge.

Traditional sources of morality-philosophical ethics, religious standards, and cultural values-are being questioned at a time when we most need morality's direction.

Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of Pilot Wave Theory at the beginning of the XXI century.

This comprehensive textbook is devoted to classical and quantum cosmology, with particular emphasis on modern approaches to quantum gravity and string theory and on their observational imprint.

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This book focuses on the way in which the problem of the motion of bodies has been viewed and approached over the course of human history.

Analytical mechanics is much more than an efficient tool for the solution of dynamical problems encountered in physics and engineering.

This volume critically examines the work of three eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam, engaging with and developing their answers to key methodological questions.

This book is about the 1604 supernova and presents the translation of key documents discussing this astronomical event in Italy.

This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics.

Universally recognized as bringing about a revolutionary transformation of the notions of space, time, and motion in physics, Einstein's theory of gravitation, known as "e;general relativity,"e; was also a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science.

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries.

Winner of the 1983 National Book Award!

This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences.

In this book I address a dichotomy that is as central as any in ontology - that between ordinary objects or substances and the various attributes (Le.

This book brings together philosophical discussions of symmetry in physics, highlighting the main issues and controversies.

Information and communication technology occupies a central place in the modern world, with society becoming increasingly dependent on it every day.

This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science.

This investigation of time and space is motivated by gaps in our current understanding: by the lack of definitions, by our failure to appreciate the nature of these entities, by our inability to pin down their properties.

Originally published in 1986.