Philosophy of science

Is all that exists part of the natural world?

One main interest of philosophy is to become clear about the assumptions, premisses and inconsistencies of our thoughts and theories.

Having its seeds in the 2nd International Lauener Symposium held in honour of Dagfinn Follesdal, the present collection contains a rich, kaleidoscopic ensemble of previously unpublished contributions by leading authors, representing diverse approaches to a variety of philosophical themes on which Follesdal has had a longstanding, formative impact.

This book is the product of a collaboration stretching the years 2007-10, whose initial fruit was a paper on "e;Plenum Theory"e; published in Nous.

To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social.

This book critically examines the conception of legal science and the nature of law developed by Hans Kelsen.

Die Wittgenstein-Rezeption hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten, wohl vor allem aufgrund Kripkes einflussreichem Buch Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, auf den Begriff der Regel und das Problem des Regelfolgens konzentriert.

In these engaging memoirs of a maverick, Theodore H.

This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher's system of pragmatic idealism.

What role do the visual arts play in the emerging commercial spaceflight industry, and vice versa?

Die in diesem Band zusammengefassten Beitrage stellen die wesentlichen Forschungsergebnisse der internationalen Munchner Konferenz "e;100 Jahre Russell-Paradoxon"e; im Jahr 2001 dar, auf der an die Entdeckung des beruhmten Russell Paradoxons vor 100 Jahren erinnert wurde.

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Eine ketzerische Position: Was läuft falsch in der gegenwärtigen Physik?

Sind Wahrheit und Schönheit verbunden?

Wer bin ich?

Philanthropies funded by the Rockefeller family have been prominent in the social history of the twentieth century for their involvement in medicine and applied science.

Wolfgang Lefevre, Jiirgen Renn, and Vrs Schoepflin General The origin of this volume is a workshop held has a deeper, more complex structure which in 1997 in Berlin as part of a series of work- must be assumed if its analysis is only based shops organized in the framework of the on text.

by Ivor Grattan-Guinness Until twenty years ago the outline history of logicism was well known.

In this incisive analysis of academic psychology, Gregg Henriques examines the fragmented nature of the discipline and explains why the field has had enormous difficulty specifying its subject matter and how this has limited its ability to advance our knowledge of the human condition.

This thirteenth volume of the Poincare Seminar Series, Henri Poincare, 1912-2012, is published on the occasion of the centennial of the death of Henri Poincare in 1912.

Wie und weshalb wurde aus dem eigentlich politikfernen theoretischen Physiker Andrej Sacharow (1921–1989), allgemein anerkannter Vater der sowjetischen Wasserstoffbombe, ein Vorkämpfer für Menschenrechte und der erste Friedensnobelpreisträger Russlands?

This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz's thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries.

This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership.

This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling "e;dark sides.

The book comprises biographical notes, of about 1000 words each, with a portrait photo, of 90 influential figures of the famous prewar Viennese school of neuropsychiatry, appearing together for the first time in a single volume.

This book addresses the pursuit and further investigation of experimental results by analyzing classic examples from physics.

This volume provides a comparative philosophical investigation into a particular concept from a variety of angles-in this case, the concept of "e;miracle.

This book focuses on the unique philosophical relationship between Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein.

This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition.

The North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAM) is the driver of a strong anthropocentric stance, which has legalized an ongoing, annual exploitation of hundreds of millions of wild animals, who are killed in the United States through trapping, hunting and other lethal practices.

Quantum mechanics is one of the most fascinating elements of the physics curriculum, but its conceptual nuances and mathematical complexity can be daunting for beginning students.

This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way.

This book examines the ethical responsibilities of engineers and scientists in light of new advances in science with a distinct reflection on quantum mechanics.

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

Chemistry shapes and creates the disposition of the world's resources and provides novel substances for the welfare and hazard of our civilisation at an exponential rate.

This book reflects the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse.

This book is an argument for moving beyond culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity as the necessary foundation of an authentic self.

This book aims to draw readers' attention to the benefits once present nature in Azerbaijan.

Many descriptions of empathy revolve around sharing in and understanding another person's emotions.

This book is an exploration of the integration-differentiation dynamics that result in a drive, or impulse, toward human sociality, arguing that our need to connect with other people is as fundamental as our need for food and shelter.