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Concept of Knowledge
The Ankara Seminar
Av Ioanna Kuçuradi, Robert S. Cohen
Inbunden, 1995
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In relation to the problems faced today, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question 'What is knowledge?', and consider whether knowledge has lost its object. Such was the problem placed before the seminar convened by the Philosophical Society of Turkey at …
Is Water H2O?
Evidence, Realism and Pluralism
Av Hasok Chang
Inbunden, 2012
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This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O. Three main phases of development are critically re-examined, covering the …
Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy
Av A. Janik
Inbunden, 1989
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Why did the two most influential philosophers in the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, write in such a curious fashion that they confused a whole generation of disciples and created a cottage industry for a second generation in the interpretation of their works? Do those …
Literature and Science as Modes of Expression
Av F.R. Amrine
Inbunden, 1989
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On the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Boston Studies series in 1985, Cohen, Elkana, and Wartofsky wrote in another preface such as this that the time had come for establishing institutions supporting a vision to which the series had been devoted since its inception, namely that of a more …
Intimate Relation
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Presented to Robert E. Butts on his 60th Birthday
Av J.R. Brown, J. Mittelstrass
Inbunden, 1989
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The best philosophy of science during the last generation has been highly historical; and the best history of science, highly philosophical. No one has better exemplified this intimate relationship between history and philosophy than has Robert E. Butts in his work. Through out his numerous …
Freedom and Rationality
Essays in Honor of John Watkins From his Colleagues and Friends
Inbunden, 1989
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x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of methodologi cal individualism, a debate which continues to this day, and which has inspired a literature as great as any in contemporary philosophy. Few collections of material in the general area of philosophy of social science …
Reflexive Epistemology
The Philosophical Legacy of Otto Neurath
Av D. Zolo
Inbunden, 1989
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Professor Danilo Zolo has written an account of Otto Neurath's epistemology which deserves careful reading by all who have studied the development of 20th century philosophy of science. Here we see the philosophical Neurath in his mature states of mind, the vigorous critic, the scientific Utopian, …
Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences
Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake
Av Trevor H. Levere, W.R. Shea
Inbunden, 1990
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This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence. It is difficult to know him without succumbing to his combination of discipline and enthusiasm, even in fields remote from Renaissance …
Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Inbunden, 1990
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Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully …
Through Measurement to Knowledge
The Selected Papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1853–1926
Av Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, K. Gavroglu m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
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"Tile; D'apC:Tile; l. DpWTa ()coi 7rpo7rapod)w £ D'T}K,mi'. "between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows". This quote from Isiodos, the first lyrical poet, is jotted on a sheet of paper found among the papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the Boerhaave Museum, Leiden. On this …
Origins of Statics
The Sources of Physical Theory
Av Pierre Duhem
Inbunden, 1991
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If ever a major study of the history of science should have acted like a sudden revolution it is this book, published in two volumes in 1905 and 1906 under the title, Les origines de la statique. Paris, the place of publication, and the Librairie scientifique A. Hermann that brought it be enough of …
New Aspects of Time
Its Continuity and Novelties
Av M. Capek
Inbunden, 1991
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At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his friendly critics, his fellow-scientist and fellow-philosophers, have the works of Milic Capek before them in one volume, aside from his books of course. Now the development of his interests and his thoughts, always led centrally by his …
Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300–1700: Tension and Accommodation
Inbunden, 1991
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Habent sua Jata colloquia. The present volume has its ongms in a spring 1984 international workshop held, under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, by The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas of Tel-Aviv University in cooperation with The Van Leer …
Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution
Av Z. Bechler
Inbunden, 1991
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Three events, which happened all within the same week some ten years ago, set me on the track which the book describes. The first was a reading of Emile Meyerson works in the course of a prolonged research on Einstein's relativity theory, which sent me back to Meyerson's Ident- ity and Reality, …
Explanation in the Sciences
Inbunden, 1991
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Emile Meyerson's writings on the philosophy of science are a rich source of ideas and information concerning many philosophical and historical aspects of the development of modem science. Meyerson's works are not widely read or cited today by philosophers or even philosophers of science, in part …
Organism and the Origins of Self
Av A.I. Tauber
Inbunden, 1991
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"De la vaporisation et de la centralisation du Moi. Tout est la. " Charles Baudelaire (journal entry) This anthology is my visit to Oz. On sabbatical in 1988, I chose to reeducate myself in general biology, first broadening my erudition as an immunologist, and then extending that horizon into …
Understanding Origins
Contemporary Views on the Origins of Life, Mind and Society
Av Francisco J. Varela, J.P. Dupuy
Inbunden, 1992
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The main intention of this book is to bring together contributions from biology, cognitive science, and the humanities for a joint exploration of some of the main contemporary notions dealing with the understanding of origins in life,mind and society. The question of origin is inseparable from a …
Methodological Variance
Essays in Epistemological Ontology and the Methodology of Science
Av G.L. Pandit
Inbunden, 1991
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For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo, Newton, Max Planck, Einstein and others devoted their entire lifetimes? …
Beyond Reason
Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend
Inbunden, 1991
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Some philosophers think that Paul Feyerabend is a clown, a great many others think that he is one of the most exciting philosophers of science of this century. For me the truth does not lie somewhere in between, for I am decidedly of the second opinion, an opinion that is becoming general around …
World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation
Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988
Av W.R. Woodward, Robert S. Cohen
Inbunden, 1991
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The various efforts to develop a Marxist philosophy of science in the one time 'socialist' countries were casualties of the Cold War. Even those who were in no way Marxists, and those who were undogmatic in their Marxisms, now confront a new world. All the more harsh is it for those who worked …
Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma
Astrology, Theology and Science in Albertus Magnus and his Contemporaries
Av P. Zambelli
Inbunden, 1992
1970 kr
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The attribution of the Speculum Astronomiae to Albertus Magnus became a controversial issue only recently, when the great neo-Thomist historian Pierre Mandonnet suggested -- without any antecedents -- that the author was Roger Bacon rather than Albert. Mandonnet's theses were refuted by Lynn …
Science and Empires
Historical Studies about Scientific Development and European Expansion
Av P. Petitjean, Cathérine Jami m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2188 kr
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SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, …
Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof
The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Inbunden, 1992
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This volume is presented as a companion study to my translation of Galileo's MS 27, Galileo's Logical Treatises, which contains Galileo's appropriated questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics - a work only recently transcribed from the Latin autograph. Its purpose is to acquaint an …
Galileo's Logical Treatises
A Translation, with Notes and Commentary, of his Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book II
Inbunden, 1992
1643 kr
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Hard as it is to believe, what is possibly Galileo's most important Latin manuscript was not transcribed for the National Edition of his works and so has remained hidden from scholars for centuries. In this volume William A. Wallace translates the logical treatises contained in that manuscript and …
Galileo's Logical Treatises
A Translation, with Notes and Commentary, of his Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book II
Av W.A. Wallace
1992
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This two volume set includes "Galileo's Logical Treatises" and "Galileo's Logic of Discovery". The problem of Galileo's logical methodology has long interested scholars. In "Galileo's Logical Treatises" the author offers a solution that is backed by documentary evidence. His analysis starts with an …
Invention of Physical Science
Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy Since the Seventeenth Century Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert
Av Erwin N. Hiebert, Mary Jo Nye m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1643 kr
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Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations. Contemporary scientific explanation is rigorously differentiated from religious interpretation, although, to be sure, scientists sometimes …
Bridging the Gap
Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics - Lectures on the Foundations of Science
Av Giovanna Corsi, Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
879 kr
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Foundational questions in logic, mathematics, computer science and physics are constant sources of epistemological debate in contemporary philosophy. To what extent is the transfinite part of mathematics completely trustworthy? Why is there a general 'malaise' concerning the logical approach to the …
Philosophy and Conceptual History of Science in Taiwan
Inbunden, 1992
1643 kr
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Scholarly studies of mathematics and the sciences, carried out by philos ophers and historians in Taiwan in recent years, have two main goals: first, positive and critical participation in the logical analysis of scientific theories and scientific explanation; and second, conceptual clarification …
Founders of Evolutionary Genetics
A Centenary Reappraisal
Av S. Sarkar
Inbunden, 1992
2188 kr
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A reassessment of the work of Fisher, Haldane, Muller and Wright on the occasion of the centenaries of their birth. Given the seminal role played by these figures in 20th-century evolutionary biology, it is also an important contribution to the history of biology. It brings together the scholarship …
