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Experimental Inquiries
Historical, Philosophical and Social Studies of Experimentation in Science
Inbunden, 1990
1098 kr
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The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early -- though not always under that name -- in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne imme diately after the …
Uses of Antiquity
The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition
Inbunden, 1991
2188 kr
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The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second …
Trees of Life
Essays in Philosophy of Biology
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. • Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science' aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group of …
Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology
Inbunden, 1996
1098 kr
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Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. 'Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science' aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group of …
1543 and All That
Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution
Av G. Freeland, Anthony Corones
Inbunden, 1999
1643 kr
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Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Seien ce aims to provide a distinctive publication of essays on a connected outlet for their work. Each volume …
Causation and Laws of Nature
Av H. Sankey
Inbunden, 1999
1643 kr
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Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature, mostly by authors working in or active in the Australasian region. The book provides an overview of current work on the theory of causation, including …
After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend
Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very …
After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend
Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method
Häftad, 2001
1207 kr
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Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very …
From Discrete to Continuous
The Broadening of Number Concepts in Early Modern England
Av K. Neal
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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In the early modern period, a crucial transformation occurred in the classical conception of number and magnitude. Traditionally, numbers were merely collections of discrete units that measured some multiple. Magnitude, on the other hand, was usually described as being continuous, or being …
Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science
Scientific Realism and Commonsense
Av S. Clarke, T.D. Lyons
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group of …
Subtle and Mysterious Machine
The Medical World of Walter Charleton (1619-1707)
Av Emily Booth
Inbunden, 2005
1643 kr
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Walter Charleton is an intriguing character—he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known contemporaries. We catch sight of him 1 conversing with Pepys about teeth, arguing with Inigo Jones about the …
Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century
Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
Av Peter R. Anstey, John A. Schuster
Inbunden, 2005
1098 kr
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One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise of the natural sciences. The exponential expansion of scientific knowledge and the accompanying technology that so impact on our daily lives are truly remarkable. But what is often taken for granted is the enviable epistemic-credit …
Rationality and Reality
Conversations with Alan Musgrave
Inbunden, 2006
1643 kr
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Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical – critical realism and critical rationalism. In defence of critcal realism he argues for the objective existence of the external world as opposed to idealism, as well as arguing for scientific realism against …
Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany
The History of the Accademia del Cimento
Inbunden, 2007
2515 kr
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The aim of this book is to explore and understand the activities undertaken by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento, one of Europe’s first scientific societies. The Cimento operated for ten years, between 1657 and 1667, and during that time performed many experiments and observations in physics and …
Genesis of Fluid Mechanics 1640-1780
Inbunden, 2008
2188 kr
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Fluid Mechanics, as a scientific discipline in a modern sense, was established between the last third of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th one. This book analyses its genesis, following its evolution along two basic lines of research, which have been named the “problem of resistance” …
Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Av Frederik A. Bakker, Delphine Bellis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1098 kr
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This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern representations of the cosmos. …
Weyl and the Problem of Space
From Science to Philosophy
Av Julien Bernard, Carlos Lobo
Inbunden, 2019
1425 kr
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This book investigates Hermann Weyl’s work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards. It presents new material and opens the philosophical problem of space anew, crossing the disciplines of mathematics, history of science and philosophy. With a Kantian starting point Weyl asks: among all …
Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution
Inbunden, 2019
934 kr
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This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instrumental in founding the first experimental cabinet …
Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2020
934 kr
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This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instrumental in founding the first experimental cabinet …
Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure
Av Ian Wills
Inbunden, 2020
551 kr
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This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison's active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to his success. From this the …
Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure
Av Ian Wills
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison's active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to his success. From this the …
How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making
Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference
Av Johannes Feichtinger, Anil Bhatti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1680 kr
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging both the premise of …
How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making
Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference
Av Johannes Feichtinger, Anil Bhatti m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1680 kr
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging both the premise of …
Empiricist Theories of Space
Space and Experience in Early Modern Philosophy
Inbunden, 2020
1207 kr
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This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac. While space is a central and challenging issue for early modern empiricists, literature on this topic is sparse. This collection shows the diversity …
Empiricist Theories of Space
Space and Experience in Early Modern Philosophy
Häftad, 2021
1207 kr
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This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac. While space is a central and challenging issue for early modern empiricists, literature on this topic is sparse. This collection shows the diversity …
Force of an Idea
New Essays on Christian Wolff's Psychology
Av Saulo de Freitas Araujo, Thiago Constâncio Ribeiro Pereira m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1861 kr
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This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolff's psychology written by leading international scholars. Christian Wolff is one of the towering figures in 18th-century Western thought. In the last decades, the publication of Wolff's …
Force of an Idea
New Essays on Christian Wolff's Psychology
Av Saulo de Freitas Araujo, Thiago Constâncio Ribeiro Pereira m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1861 kr
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This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolff's psychology written by leading international scholars. Christian Wolff is one of the towering figures in 18th-century Western thought. In the last decades, the publication of Wolff's …
John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence
Inbunden, 2021
1425 kr
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This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an important figure of …
John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence
Häftad, 2022
1425 kr
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This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an important figure of …
Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859
Inbunden, 2022
551 kr
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This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817–1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. Written by a diverse team of experts, the chapters in the book’s first part …
