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28 produkter
Quantum Mechanics Between Ontology and Epistemology
Häftad, 2019
1321 kr
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This book explores the prospects of rivaling ontological and epistemic interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM). It concludes with a suggestion for how to interpret QM from an epistemological point of view and with a Kantian touch. It thus refines, extends, and combines existing approaches in a …
Philosophy of Science
Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities
Av Alexander Christian, David Hommen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
1541 kr
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This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership. It groups carefully selected contributions into the four fields of I) philosophy of physics, II) philosophy of life …
Mechanistic Explanations in Physics and Beyond
Av Brigitte Falkenburg, Gregor Schiemann
Inbunden, 2019
1431 kr
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This volume offers a broad, philosophical discussion on mechanical explanations. Coverage ranges from historical approaches and general questions to physics and higher-level sciences . The contributors also consider the topics of complexity, emergence, and reduction.Mechanistic explanations detail …
Kant’s Cosmology
From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason
Inbunden, 2020
1207 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781. With the Theory of the Heavens (1755) and the Physical Monadology (1756), the young Kant had presented an ambitious approach to physical cosmology based on an …
Kant’s Cosmology
From the Pre-Critical System to the Antinomy of Pure Reason
Häftad, 2021
1207 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781. With the Theory of the Heavens (1755) and the Physical Monadology (1756), the young Kant had presented an ambitious approach to physical cosmology based on an …
Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice
Inbunden, 2022
1212 kr
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This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine. Medicine has provided challenging case studies for the general philosophy of science that …
Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice
Häftad, 2023
1212 kr
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This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine. Medicine has provided challenging case studies for the general philosophy of science that …
Rules and Meaning in Quantum Mechanics
Inbunden, 2025
1098 kr
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This book pursues an investigation at the intersection of philosophy of physics and philosophy of language, and offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the semantic facts of quantum mechanics. The author presents new insights, including a reworking of Einstein's incompleteness argument, …
Rules and Meaning in Quantum Mechanics
Häftad, 2026
1098 kr
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This book pursues an investigation at the intersection of philosophy of physics and philosophy of language, and offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the semantic facts of quantum mechanics. The author presents new insights, including a reworking of Einstein's incompleteness argument, …
Thought Experiments, Models and Scientific Explanation
Inbunden, 2026
1429 kr
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This book proposes a novel way to view thought experiments, models and scientific explanations. Current literature focuses largely on the assumed differences between the thought experiments and models, and as a result we have lost sight of an important role they can perform in science, such as …
Pluralist Theory of the Mind
Av David Ludwig
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This book challenges common debates in philosophy of mind by questioning the framework of placement problems in contemporary metaphysics. The author argues that placement problems arise when exactly one fundamental ontology serves as the base for all entities, and will propose a pluralist …
Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki
Av Uskali Mäki, Ioannis Votsis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1101 kr
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This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine, laws of nature, science funding and the …
Pluralist Theory of the Mind
Av David Ludwig
Häftad, 2016
555 kr
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This book challenges common debates in philosophy of mind by questioning the framework of placement problems in contemporary metaphysics. The author argues that placement problems arise when exactly one fundamental ontology serves as the base for all entities, and will propose a pluralist …
Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki
Av Uskali Mäki, Ioannis Votsis m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
1199 kr
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This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine, laws of nature, science funding and the …
Deep Metaphysics of Space
An Alternative History and Ontology Beyond Substantivalism and Relationism
Inbunden, 2016
1207 kr
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This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space or spacetime, substantivalism and relationism, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these physical theories. This book also examines and develops alternative ontological conceptions of space, …
Rethinking Knowledge
The Heuristic View
Inbunden, 2017
1316 kr
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This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences. It seeks to answer the question of whether or not philosophy can still be fruitful and what …
EPSA15 Selected Papers
The 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Düsseldorf
Av Michela Massimi, Jan-Willem Romeijn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2188 kr
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This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science. It comprises of thematically arranged papers presented at the 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA15), covering a broad variety of topics within general philosophy of …
Making it Formally Explicit
Probability, Causality and Indeterminism
Av Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Leszek Wroński
Inbunden, 2017
1650 kr
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This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Kraków Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism. Coverage …
Union of Chemistry and Physics
Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology
Inbunden, 2017
1102 kr
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This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines. The author uses structuralist approach to explore the overlap between the two sciences, looking at their theoretical and …
Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction
A Philosophical System and Its Approach to Prediction in Science
Inbunden, 2017
552 kr
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This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science. The author offers a full characterization of Rescher’s …
Philosophy of Science
Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities
Av Alexander Christian, David Hommen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1542 kr
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This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership. It groups carefully selected contributions into the four fields of I) philosophy of physics, II) philosophy of life …
Deep Metaphysics of Space
An Alternative History and Ontology Beyond Substantivalism and Relationism
Häftad, 2018
880 kr
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This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space or spacetime, substantivalism and relationism, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these physical theories. This book also examines and develops alternative ontological conceptions of space, …
Rethinking Knowledge
The Heuristic View
Häftad, 2018
934 kr
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This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences. It seeks to answer the question of whether or not philosophy can still be fruitful and what …
EPSA15 Selected Papers
The 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Düsseldorf
Av Michela Massimi, Jan-Willem Romeijn m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
2390 kr
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This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science. It comprises of thematically arranged papers presented at the 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA15), covering a broad variety of topics within general philosophy of …
Making it Formally Explicit
Probability, Causality and Indeterminism
Av Gábor Hofer-Szabó, Leszek Wroński
Häftad, 2018
1643 kr
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This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Kraków Research Group on Probability, Causality and Determinism. Coverage …
Union of Chemistry and Physics
Linkages, Reduction, Theory Nets and Ontology
Häftad, 2018
1173 kr
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This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines. The author uses structuralist approach to explore the overlap between the two sciences, looking at their theoretical and …
Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction
A Philosophical System and Its Approach to Prediction in Science
Häftad, 2018
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science. The author offers a full characterization of Rescher’s …
Quantum Mechanics Between Ontology and Epistemology
Inbunden, 2018
1316 kr
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This book explores the prospects of rivaling ontological and epistemic interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM). It concludes with a suggestion for how to interpret QM from an epistemological point of view and with a Kantian touch. It thus refines, extends, and combines existing approaches in a …
