Philosophy of science

Nanotechnology & Society is a collection of sixteen papers focused on the most urgent issues arising from nanotechnology today and in the near future.

Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw.

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The idea of the present volume emerged in 2002 from a series of talks by Frank Stephan in 2002, and John Case in 2003, on developments of algorithmic learning theory.

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Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in the period from the Middle Ages through to the sixteenth century.

Beyond their remarkable technical accomplishments, the new directions taken by the sciences in recent decades call for renewal of their epistemological basis.

The English Galileo-the title of this book draws on the extraordinary prominence of Galileo Galilei in the historiography of the early modern Scienti?

In this collection I present 16 of my, I feel, more substantial papers on theoretical philosophy, 12 as originally published, one co-authored with Ulrike Haas-Spohn (Chapter14), one (Chapter 15) that was a brief conference commentary, but is in fact a suitable appendix to Chapter 14, one as a translation of a German paper (Chapter 12), and one newly written for this volume (Chapter 16), which, however, is only my recent attempt to properly and completely express an argument I had given in two earlier papers.

In the last three decades, the level of interaction between philosophy and psychology has increased dramatically.

Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology promise to have major impacts on human health, wealth, and peace in the coming decades.

The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history of science by some of its leading representatives.

This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical perspective.

Our world is full of composite objects that persist through time: dogs, persons, chairs and rocks.

Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy offers a new perspective on Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics as complementarity, and on the relationships between physics and philosophy in Bohr's work, which has had momentous significance for our understanding of quantum theory and of the nature of knowledge in general.

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.

Medicine has been a very fruitful source of significant issues for philosophy over the last 30 years.

This volume is a product of the international research project Theory of Explanation, which was funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS-HS).

Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the nineteenth century's most important German natural scientists.

Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963.

In order for there to be knowledge, there must be at least some primary elements which may be called 'starting points'.

Philosophy of mathematics today has transformed into a very complex network of diverse ideas, viewpoints, and theories.

Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics.

JeffandImetwhenIwasagraduatestudentattheUniversityofMinnesotaandhewas a post doctoral fellow, first in the Chemistry Department, and then in the Center for Philosophy of Science.

This book is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Bern in thesummerof2002.

This study brings together ideas developed over many years in various lectures in an endeavour to clarify the concept of hermeneutic fore-structure of scientific research.

Empirical research often lacks theory.

Involving electricity, elasticity, thermodynamics and crystallography, several scientific traditions and approaches and leading physicists, the history of piezoelectricity provides an advantageous perspective on late nineteenth century physics and its development.

Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications.

The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981.

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.

Arthur Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition.

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

The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has had a turbulent career in philosophy of science.

Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical - critical realism and critical rationalism.

The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in Vienna in 2003, Cambridge and Vienna - Frank P.

An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley.

Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001.

Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era considered Kant's theory of intuition to be obsolete.

There has been a flare-up in interest in science policy and a key factor in this is the increased interest in analysing the role that research can play in informing policy making.

'Scientific advice to politics', the 'nature of expertise', and the 'relation between experts, policy makers, and the public' are variations of a topic that currently attracts the attention of social scientists, philosophers of science as well as practitioners in the public sphere and the media.

Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results.

Situated at the crossroads of nature and culture, physics and consciousness, cosmos and life, history - intimately conjoined with time - continues to puzzle the philosopher as well as the scientist.

The human being is today at the center of scientific, social, ethical and philosophical debates.

One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise of the natural sciences.