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Understanding Perspectivism
Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects
Av Michela Massimi, Casey D. McCoy
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific challenges of perspectivism in a variety of fields such as physics, biology, …
Instrument of Science
Scientific Anti-Realism Revitalised
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism, suffered from serious defects.In this book, …
Aesthetics of Science
Beauty, Imagination and Understanding
Av Milena Ivanova, Steven French
Inbunden, 2020
2134 kr
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This volume builds on two recent developments in philosophy on the relationship between art and science: the notion of representation and the role of values in theory choice and the development of scientific theories. Its aim is to address questions regarding scientific creativity and imagination, …
Science, Freedom, Democracy
Av Péter Hartl, Adam Tamas Tuboly
Inbunden, 2021
2746 kr
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This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts.The contributors utilize …
Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic
Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally.The author divides …
Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic
Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship
Häftad, 2022
706 kr
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This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally.The author divides …
Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy
Av Rik Peels, Jeroen de Ridder m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
706 kr
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Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters. While this tradition has always had its philosophical detractors who have defended various forms of skepticism or have sought to develop rival epistemological views, recent advances in …
Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences
Av Wei Fang
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences such as physics and chemistry and by demonstrating that biological explanations are …
Science, Freedom, Democracy
Av Péter Hartl, Adam Tamas Tuboly
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts.The contributors utilize …
Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences
Av Wei Fang
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences such as physics and chemistry and by demonstrating that biological explanations are …
New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress
Av Yafeng Shan
Inbunden, 2022
2134 kr
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This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science.Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and …
New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress
Av Yafeng Shan
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science.Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and …
Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences
From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics
Av Sebastian Lutz, Adam Tamas Tuboly
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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This volume has two primary aims: to trace the traditions and changes in methods, concepts, and ideas that brought forth the logical empiricists’ philosophy of physics and to present and analyze the logical empiricists’ various and occasionally contrary ideas about the physical sciences and their …
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science
Av William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the …
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
Rationality without Foundations
Inbunden, 2008
2746 kr
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This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through conjectures and refutations, to his own development, by portraying him in his intellectual growth as …
Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science
Av Luc Bovens, Carl Hoefer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2746 kr
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Nancy Cartwright is one of the most distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. Despite the profound impact of her work, there is neither a systematic exposition of Cartwright’s philosophy of science nor a collection of articles that contains in-depth discussions of the …
Causation, Evidence, and Inference
Av Julian Reiss
Inbunden, 2015
2746 kr
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In this book, Reiss argues in favor of a tight fit between evidence, concept and purpose in our causal investigations in the sciences. There is no doubt that the sciences employ a vast array of techniques to address causal questions such as controlled experiments, randomized trials, statistical and …
Evolution, Rationality and Cognition
A Cognitive Science for the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2010
750 kr
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Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold – the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when …
Conceptual Systems
Inbunden, 2006
3067 kr
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New concepts are constantly being introduced into our thinking. Conceptual Systems explores how these new concepts are entered into our systems along with sufficient continuity with older ideas to ensure understanding. The encyclopedic breadth of this text highlights the many different aspects and …
Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science
Av Léna Soler, Sjoerd Zwart m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2513 kr
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In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and …
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science
Av William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2513 kr
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The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the …
Emergence in Science and Philosophy
Av Antonella Corradini, Timothy O'Connor
Inbunden, 2010
2746 kr
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The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity. Emergent phenomena are said to arise out of and be sustained by more basic …
Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited
Av Vasso Kindi, Theodore Arabatzis
Inbunden, 2012
2746 kr
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The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new …
Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications
Av Bana Bashour, Hans D. Muller
Inbunden, 2013
2513 kr
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One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind. Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications is a unique and valuable contribution …
Emergence in Science and Philosophy
Av Antonella Corradini, Timothy O'Connor
Häftad, 2013
910 kr
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The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity. Emergent phenomena are said to arise out of and be sustained by more basic …
Popper's Critical Rationalism
A Philosophical Investigation
Häftad, 2013
910 kr
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Popper’s Critical Rationalism presents Popper’s views on science, knowledge, and inquiry, and examines the significance and tenability of these in light of recent developments in philosophy of science, philosophy of probability, and epistemology. It develops a fresh and novel philosophical position …
Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge
Inbunden, 2011
2513 kr
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This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing …
Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science
Av Luc Bovens, Carl Hoefer m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
910 kr
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Nancy Cartwright is one of the most distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. Despite the profound impact of her work, there is neither a systematic exposition of Cartwright’s philosophy of science nor a collection of articles that contains in-depth discussions of the …
Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts
Av Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2746 kr
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From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical …
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
Rationality without Foundations
Häftad, 2010
910 kr
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This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through conjectures and refutations, to his own development, by portraying him in his intellectual growth as …
