Essays In The History And Philosophy Of Science
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Author |
: Pierre Duhem |
Publisher |
: Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0872203085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780872203082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science by : Pierre Duhem
"Here, for the first time in English, are the philosophical essays - including the first statement of the "Duhem Thesis" - that formed the basis for Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, together with new translations of the historiographical essays presenting the equally celebrated "Continuity Thesis" by Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), a founding figure of the history and philosophy of science. Prefaced by an introduction on Duhem's intellectual development and continuing significance, here as well are important subsequent essays in which Duhem elaborated key concepts and critiqued such contemporaries as Henri Poincare and Ernst Mach. Together, these works offer a lively picture of the state of science at the turn of the century while addressing methodological issues that remain at the center of debate today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author |
: John Earman |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1992-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520075773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520075771 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations by : John Earman
These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their far-reaching criticisms challenge arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems of induction, empiricism, and realism. By turns empirical or analytic, historical or programmatic, confessional or argumentative, the authors' arguments both describe and demonstrate the fact that philosophy of science is in a ferment more intense than at any time since the heyday of logical positivism seventy years ago.
Author |
: David B. Malament |
Publisher |
: Open Court Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0812695062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780812695069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Natural Philosophy by : David B. Malament
In this book, 13 leading philosophers of science focus on the work of Professor Howard Stein, best known for his study of the intimate connection between philosophy and natural science. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of Howard Stein's writings.
Author |
: Stillman Drake |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
Release |
: 1999-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802075851 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802075857 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science by : Stillman Drake
This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.
Author |
: J.D. North |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 462 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400951198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400951191 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Light of Nature by : J.D. North
This volume of essays is meant as a tribute to Alistair Crombie by some of those who have studied with him. The occasion of its publication is his seven tieth birthday - 4 November 1985. Its contents are a reflection - or so it is hoped - of his own interests, and they indicate at the same time his influence on subjects he has pursued for some forty years. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Alistair Cameron Crombie took a first degree in zoology at the University of Melbourne in 1938, after which he moved to Je sus College, Cambridge. There he took a doctorate in the same subject (with a dissertation on population dynamics - foreshadowing a later interest in the history of Darwinism) in 1942. By this time he had taken up a research position with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Cambridge Zoological La boratory, a position he left in 1946, when he moved to a lectureship in the his tory and philosophy of science at University College, London. H. G. Andrewa ka and L. C. Birch, in a survey of the history of insect ecology (R. F. Smith, et al. , History of Entomology, 1973), recognise the importance of the works of Crombie (with which they couple the earlier work of Gause) as the principal sti mulus for the great interest taken in interspecific competition in the mid 194Os.
Author |
: Peter Achinstein |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195067552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019506755X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Particles and Waves by : Peter Achinstein
This volume brings together six published and two new essays by the noted philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. It represents the culmination of his examination of methodological issues that arise in nineteenth-century physics. He focuses on the philosophical problem of how, if at all, it is possible to confirm scientific hypotheses that postulate 'unobservables' such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. This question is one that not only was of great interest to nineteenth-century physicists and methodologists, but continues to occupy philosophers of science up to the present day. The essays in this volume deal with this vexing problem as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron. Achinstein shows that the most important issue raised by these three cases concerns the legitimacy of introducing hypotheses that invoke "unobservables". If science is to be empirical, can such hypotheses be employed? How, if at all, is it possible to confirm them?; Achinstein here assesses the philosophical validity of nineteenth-century and modern answers to these questions and presents and defends his own solutions
Author |
: C.D. Broad |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2014-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317830726 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317830725 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ethics and the History of Philosophy by : C.D. Broad
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Stephen Voss |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195075519 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019507551X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes by : Stephen Voss
In English, with some essays translated from French. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author |
: Wilfrid Sellars |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789401022910 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9401022917 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays in Philosophy and Its History by : Wilfrid Sellars
In pulling these essays together for inclusion in one volume I do not believe that I have done them violence. Since they originally appeared at different times and places they constitute a scattered object. Never theless, to the author's eye they have unities of theme and development which, if they fail to give them the true identity of the book, may (to adapt a metaphor from Hume) generate those smooth and easy transi tions of the imagination which arouse dispositions appropriate to sur veying such identical objects. For the juxtaposition of historical and systematic studies I make no apology. It has been suggested, with a friendly touch of malice, that if Science and Metaphysics consists, as its subtitle proclaims, of Variations on Kantian Themes, it would be no less accurate to sub-title my historical essays 'variations on Sellars ian themes'. But this is as it should be. Phi losophy is a continuing dialogue with one's contemporaries, living and dead, and if one fails to see oneself in one's respondent and one's re spondent in oneself, there is confrontation but no dialogue. The historian, as Collingwood points out, becomes Caesar's contemporary by learning to think Caesar's thoughts. And it is because Plato thought so many of our thoughts that he is our contemporary and companion.
Author |
: Robert S. Cohen |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400970557 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400970552 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by : Robert S. Cohen
To celebrate Adolf Griinbaum's sixtieth birthday by offering him this bouquet of essays written for this purpose was the happy task of an autonomous Editorial Committee: Wesley C. Salmon, Nicholas Rescher, Larry Laudan, Carl G. Hempel, and Robert S. Cohen. To present the book within the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science was altogether fitting and natural, for Griinbaum has' been friend and supporter of philosophy of science at Boston University for twenty-five years, and unofficial godfather to the Boston Colloquium. To regret that we could not include contributions from all his well-wishers, critical admirers and admiring critics, is only to regret that we did not have an encyclopedic space at the committee's disposal. But we, and all involved in this book, speak for all the others in the philo sophical, scientific, and personal worlds of Adolf Griinbaum in greeting him on May 15, 1983, with our wishes for his health, his scholarship, his happiness. Our gratitude is due to Carolyn Fawcett for her care and accuracy in editing this book, and for the preparation of the Index; and to Elizabeth McMunn for her help again and again, especially in preparation of the Bibliography of the Published Writings of Adolf Griinbaum; and to Thelma Griinbaum for encouraging, planning, and cheering. Boston University R.S.C. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science M.W.W.