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Theories of Explanation
Häftad, 1988
1905 kr
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Since the publication of Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim's pioneering work Studies in the Logic of Explanation, the theory of explanation has remained a major topic in the philosophy of science. This volume makes available some of the classic essays on the theory of explanation along with the best …
Theories of Explanation
E-bok, 1988
550 kr
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Since the publication of Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim''s ground-breaking work "Studies in the Logic of Explanation," the theory of explanation has remained a major topic in the philosophy of science. This valuable collection provides readers with the opportunity to study some of the classic …
Spaces for the Future
A Companion to Philosophy of Technology
Av Joseph C. Pitt, Ashley Shew
Inbunden, 2017
3793 kr
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Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study. The 32 chapters, all of them appearing in print here for the first time, were written by both established …
New Directions in the Philosophy of Technology
Inbunden, 1995
1098 kr
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In this collection we finally find the philosophy of technology, a young and rapidly developing area of scholarly interest, making contact with history of science and technology, and mainstream epistemological and metaphysical issues. The sophistication of these papers indicates the maturity of the …
Spaces for the Future
A Companion to Philosophy of Technology
Av Ashley Shew, Joseph C. Pitt
E-bok, 2017
849 kr
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Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study. The 32 chapters, all of them appearing in print here for the first time, were written by both established …
Spaces for the Future
A Companion to Philosophy of Technology
Av Ashley Shew, Joseph C. Pitt
E-bok, 2017
849 kr
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Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study. The 32 chapters, all of them appearing in print here for the first time, were written by both established …
Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Economy
Reflections on the VPI Center
Av Joseph C. Pitt, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
756 kr
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This book is about is more than a subdiscipline within the field of economics---it is about a new field named "public choice political economy" that gradually evolved during the 1970s and 1980s at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. What is the field Public Choice Political …
Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change
Inbunden, 2019
1708 kr
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Scientific change is often a function of technological innovation – new instruments show us new things we could not see before and we then need new theories to explain them. One of the results of this process is that what counts as scientific evidence changes, and how we do our science changes. …
Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change
E-bok, 2019
1830 kr
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Scientific change is often a function of technological innovation – new instruments show us new things we could not see before and we then need new theories to explain them. One of the results of this process is that what counts as scientific evidence changes, and how we do our science changes. …
New Perspectives on Galileo
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975
Av Robert E. Butts, Joseph C. Pitt
Inbunden, 1978
1643 kr
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The essays in this volume (except for the contribution of Dr. Le Grand) are extremely revised versions of papers originally delivered at a workshop on Galileo held in Blacksburg, Virginia in October, 1975. The meeting was organized by Professor Joseph Pitt and sponsored by the Department of …
New Perspectives on Galileo
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975
Av Robert E. Butts, Joseph C. Pitt
Häftad, 1978
1643 kr
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The essays in this volume (except for the contribution of Dr. Le Grand) are extremely revised versions of papers originally delivered at a workshop on Galileo held in Blacksburg, Virginia in October, 1975. The meeting was organized by Professor Joseph Pitt and sponsored by the Department of …
Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1976
Inbunden, 1978
1643 kr
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In early November 1976 a workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars was held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacks burg, Virginia. Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Research Division of the University and …
Philosophy in Economics
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Testability and Explanation in Economics held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979
Inbunden, 1981
1098 kr
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The essays in this volume are the result of a workshop held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in April, 1979. The assembled group was diverse, comprised of philosophers, economists, and statisticians. But it was not the complete group on which we had initially planned. Richard …
Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change
An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars’ Philosophy of Science
Inbunden, 1981
1098 kr
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In this essay I am concerned with the problem of conceptual change. There are, needless to say, many ways to approach the issue. But, as I see it, the problem reduces to showing how present and future systems of thought are the rational extensions of prior ones. This goal may not be attainable. …
Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change
An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars’ Philosophy of Science
Häftad, 1981
1098 kr
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In this essay I am concerned with the problem of conceptual change. There are, needless to say, many ways to approach the issue. But, as I see it, the problem reduces to showing how present and future systems of thought are the rational extensions of prior ones. This goal may not be attainable. …
Change and Progress in Modern Science
Papers related to and arising from the Fourth International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1982
Inbunden, 1984
1643 kr
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The papers presented here derive from the 4th International Confe:--ence on History and Philosophy of Science held in Blacksburg, Virginia, U. S. A. , November 2-6, 1982. The Conference was sponsored by the I nternational Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Virginia Polytechnic Institute …
Technological Transformation
Contextual and Conceptual Implications
Häftad, 1989
552 kr
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The philosophical study of technology has acquired only recently a voice in academic conversation. This situation is due, in part, to the fact that technology obviously impacts on "the real world," whereas the favored stereotype of philosophy allegedly does not. Furthermore, in some circles it was …
New Directions in the Philosophy of Technology
Häftad, 2010
1098 kr
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In this collection we finally find the philosophy of technology, a young and rapidly developing area of scholarly interest, making contact with history of science and technology, and mainstream epistemological and metaphysical issues. The sophistication of these papers indicates the maturity of the …
Doing Philosophy of Technology
Essays in a Pragmatist Spirit
Inbunden, 2011
1098 kr
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As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex technological infrastructure, has this changed the relationship between the sciences and the various technologies that support them? As our technologies help shrink our world, can we restrict our ethical concerns or must we find a way to face the …
Doing Philosophy of Technology
Essays in a Pragmatist Spirit
E-bok, 2011
1459 kr
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As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex technological infrastructure, has this changed the relationship between the sciences and the various technologies that support them? As our technologies help shrink our world, can we restrict our ethical concerns or must we find a way to face the …
Doing Philosophy of Technology
Essays in a Pragmatist Spirit
Häftad, 2013
1098 kr
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As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex technological infrastructure, has this changed the relationship between the sciences and the various technologies that support them? As our technologies help shrink our world, can we restrict our ethical concerns or must we find a way to face the …
Technological Transformation
Contextual and Conceptual Implications
E-bok, 2012
710 kr
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The philosophical study of technology has acquired only recently a voice in academic conversation. This situation is due, in part, to the fact that technology obviously impacts on "the real world," whereas the favored stereotype of philosophy allegedly does not. Furthermore, in some circles it was …
Rational Changes in Science
Essays on Scientific Reasoning
Av Marcello Pera, Joseph C. Pitt
E-bok, 2012
718 kr
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THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY Fashion is a fickle mistress. Only yesterday scientific rationality enjoyed considerable attention, consideration, and even reverence among phi losophers; "but today''s fashion leads us to despise it, and the matron, rejected and abandoned as Hecuba, …
Change and Progress in Modern Science
Papers related to and arising from the Fourth International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1982
E-bok, 2012
2127 kr
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Change and Progress in Modern Science
Papers related to and arising from the Fourth International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1982
Häftad, 2011
1692 kr
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The papers presented here derive from the 4th International Confe:--ence on History and Philosophy of Science held in Blacksburg, Virginia, U. S. A. , November 2-6, 1982. The Conference was sponsored by the I nternational Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Virginia Polytechnic Institute …
Philosophy in Economics
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Testability and Explanation in Economics held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979
E-bok, 2012
1413 kr
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The essays in this volume are the result of a workshop held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in April, 1979. The assembled group was diverse, comprised of philosophers, economists, and statisticians. But it was not the complete group on which we had initially planned. Richard …
Philosophy in Economics
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Testability and Explanation in Economics held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979
Häftad, 2011
1098 kr
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The essays in this volume are the result of a workshop held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in April, 1979. The assembled group was diverse, comprised of philosophers, economists, and statisticians. But it was not the complete group on which we had initially planned. Richard …
Pictures, Images, and Conceptual Change
An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars’ Philosophy of Science
E-bok, 2012
1459 kr
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In this essay I am concerned with the problem of conceptual change. There are, needless to say, many ways to approach the issue. But, as I see it, the problem reduces to showing how present and future systems of thought are the rational extensions of prior ones. This goal may not be attainable. …
New Perspectives on Galileo
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975
Av Joseph C. Pitt, Robert E. Butts
E-bok, 2012
2174 kr
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The essays in this volume (except for the contribution of Dr. Le Grand) are extremely revised versions of papers originally delivered at a workshop on Galileo held in Blacksburg, Virginia in October, 1975. The meeting was organized by Professor Joseph Pitt and sponsored by the Department of …
Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions
Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1976
E-bok, 2012
2111 kr
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In early November 1976 a workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars was held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacks burg, Virginia. Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Research Division of the University and …
