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Constructivism and Science
Essays in Recent German Philosophy
Av Robert E. Butts, J.R. Brown
Inbunden, 1989
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The idea to produce the current volume was conceived by Jiirgen Mittelstrass and Robert E. Butts in 1978. Idealist philosophers are wrong about one thing: the temporal gap separating idea and reality can be very long indeed - even ten or so years! Problems of timing were joined by personal problems …
Physicalism in Mathematics
Av A.D. Irvine
Inbunden, 1989
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This collection of papers has its origin in a conference held at the Uni- versity of Toronto in June of 1988. The theme of the conference was Physicalism in Mathematics: Recent Work in the Philosophy of Math- ematics. At the conference, papers were read by Geoffrey Hellman (Minnesota), Yvon …
Philosophy Of Right And Left
Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space
Av J. van Cleve, R.E Frederick
Inbunden, 1991
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Incongruent counterparts are objects that are perfectly similar except for being mirror images of each other, such as left and right human hands. Immanuel Kant was the first great thinker to point out the philosophical significance of such objects. He called them "counter parts" because they are …
Empiricism and Darwin’s Science
Av F. Wilson
Inbunden, 1991
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I would like to record my thanks to Paul Thompson for useful conver sations over the years, and also to several generations of students who have helped me develop my ideas on biological theory and on Darwin. My wife has, as usual, been more than helpful; in particular she typed a good portion of …
Causality, Method, and Modality
Essays in Honor of Jules Vuillemin
Av G.G. Brittan
Inbunden, 1990
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Deservedly so, Jules Vuillemin is widely respected and greatly admired. It is not simply that he has produced a large body of outstanding work, in many different areas of philosophy. Or that he combines to an unusual degree rigorous standards with a very wide perspective. Or even that in his …
Existence and Explanation
Essays presented in Honor of Karel Lambert
Av W. Spohn, B.C. van Fraassen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
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This collection of essays is dedicated to 'Joe' Karel Lambert. The contributors are all personally affected to Joe in some way or other, but they are definitely not the only ones. Whatever excuses there are - there are some -, the editors apologize to whomever they have neglected. But even so the …
Euclid's Heritage. Is Space Three-Dimensional?
Av P. Janich
Inbunden, 1992
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The three spatial characteristics of length, height and depth are used in the same unreflective way by laymen, technicians and scientists alike to describe the forms, positions and measure of bodies and hollow bodies. But how do we know that the space we live in has just three dimensions? This …
Music and Science in the Age of Galileo
Av V. Coelho
Inbunden, 1992
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Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, philosophy, and instrument building that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. The essays take a broad …
Completeness of Scientific Theories
On the Derivation of Empirical Indicators within a Theoretical Framework: The Case of Physical Geometry
Inbunden, 1993
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Earlier in this century, many philosophers of science (for example, Rudolf Carnap) drew a fairly sharp distinction between theory and observation, between theoretical terms like 'mass' and 'electron', and observation terms like 'measures three meters in length' and 'is _2° Celsius'. By simply …
Kant and Contemporary Epistemology
Av P. Parrini
Inbunden, 1994
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From the mid-1960s, after the important works by J. Hintikka, S. Körner, W. Sellars and P.F. Strawson, there has been a marked revival of Kantian epistemological thought. Against this background, featuring fruitful exchange between historical research and theoretical prospects, the main point of …
Creation of Ideas in Physics
Studies for a Methodology of Theory Construction
Av J. Leplin
Inbunden, 1995
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The unusual ambition of this volume is to engage scientists, historians, and philosophers in a common quest to delineate the structure of the creative thinking responsible for major advances in physical theory. The topic does not fit anyone discipline's proprietary interests, and can only be …
Tradition and Innovation
Newton’s Metaphysics of Nature
Av J.E. McGuire
Inbunden, 1995
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In my early years I was constituted in the exacting imperatives of philosophical analysis. That stern face is present in the composition of the Newton essays chosen here for republication. It is my hope that potential readers will be patient with the old Adam of analysis, and seize the portrait of …
Perspectives on Quantum Reality
Non-Relativistic, Relativistic, and Field-Theoretic
Av R.K. Clifton
Inbunden, 1995
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But to admit things not visible to the gross creatures that we are is, in my opinion, to show a decent humility, and not just a lamentable addiction to metaphysics. J. S. Bell, Are There Quantum Jumps? ON CANADIAN THANKSGIVING WEEKEND in the autumn of 1994, a lively conference was held at The …
Experiencing Nature
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus
Av P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall
Inbunden, 1997
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This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and …
Knowledge and Reality
An Essay in Positive Philosophy
Av P. Parrini
Inbunden, 1998
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Recent debates in philosophy of science and epistemology are characterized by some strong oppositions, such as those between instrumentalism and scientific realism, methodological anarchism and critical rationalism, historical contextualism and metaphysical realism, naturalism and normativism. By …
Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Av Dennis Dieks, Pieter E. Vermaas
Inbunden, 1998
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According to the modal interpretation, the standard mathematical framework of quantum mechanics specifies the physical magnitudes of a system, which have definite values. Probabilities are assigned to the possible values that these magnitudes may adopt. The interpretation is thus concerned with …
Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation
Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon
Av Maria Carla Galavotti, A. Pagnini
Inbunden, 1998
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The essays in this volume cover a wide array of topics related to the work of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon. It includes discussions of scientific explanation, rationality, inference and induction, social behaviour, philosophy of physics and biology. Some of the essays have been written with an …
Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution
Av D. Fisette
Inbunden, 1999
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Philosophy of mind has been one of the most active fields in philosophy for the past three decades. One of the most significant factors in the development of this discipline has been the emergence of cognitive science and the interest philosophers have taken in the empirical study of mind. Another …
Art of the Intelligible
An Elementary Survey of Mathematics in its Conceptual Development
Av J. Bell
Inbunden, 1999
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A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics. Attention is paid to their technical features, historical development and broader philosophical significance. Each of the various branches of mathematics is discussed separately, but their …
Number to Sound
The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution
Av P. Gozza
Inbunden, 1999
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Number 10 Sound: The Musical Way 10 the Scientific Revolution is a collection of twelve essays by writers from the fields of musicology and the history of science. The essays show the idea of music held by Euro th pean intellectuals who lived from the second half of the 15 century to the th early …
Witches, Scientists, Philosophers: Essays and Lectures
Av Robert E. Butts, Graham Solomon
Inbunden, 2000
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Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher and historian of science whose central concerns were the distinction between the rational and the irrational. He viewed scientific rationality as our major defence against the various conditions that encourage witch hunts and similar outbursts of …
Art of the Intelligible
An Elementary Survey of Mathematics in its Conceptual Development
Av J. Bell
Häftad, 2001
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A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics. Attention is paid to their technical features, historical development and broader philosophical significance. Each of the various branches of mathematics is discussed separately, but their …
Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects
Causal Objections to Platonism
Av C. Cheyne
Inbunden, 2001
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According to platonists, entities such as numbers, sets, propositions and properties are abstract objects. But abstract objects lack causal powers and a location in space and time, so how could we ever come to know of the existence of such impotent and remote objects? In Knowledge, Cause, and …
Philosophy and Geometry
Theoretical and Historical Issues
Av L. Magnani
Häftad, 2001
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Philosophers have studied geometry since ancient times. Geometrical knowledge has often played the role of a laboratory for the philosopher's conceptual experiments dedicated to the ideation of powerful theories of knowledge. Lorenzo Magnani's new book Philosophy and Geometry illustrates the rich …
Ernst Mach’s World Elements
A Study in Natural Philosophy
Av E.C. Banks
Inbunden, 2003
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Ernst Mach (1838-1916) was a seminal philosopher-scientist and a deserving member of the canon of major twentieth-century thinkers. Yet, despite a healthy resurgence in Mach studies, he is still widely thought to represent a simplistic positivist, even sensationalist, position that does not at all …
Logical Approach to Philosophy
Essays in Honour of Graham Solomon
Inbunden, 2006
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Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001. Three days later, on Nov. 1, he died of a massive stroke, at the age of 44. Solomon was well liked by those who got the chance to know him—it was a revelation to ?nd out, …
Intuition and the Axiomatic Method
Inbunden, 2006
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Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era considered Kant’s theory of intuition to be obsolete. But this only represents one side of the story concerning Kant, intuition and twentieth century science. Several prominent …
Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction
Av Roy T. Cook
Inbunden, 2007
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InSeptember2000theArchéCentrelauncheda ve-yearresearchprojecten- tled the Logical and Metaphysical Foundations of Classical Mathematics. Its goal was to study the prospects, philosophical and technical, for abstractionist foundations for the classical mathematical theories of the natural, real and …
Physical Theory and its Interpretation
Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub
Av William Demopoulos, Itamar Pitowsky
Inbunden, 2006
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JeffandImetwhenIwasagraduatestudentattheUniversityofMinnesotaandhewas a post doctoral fellow, first in the Chemistry Department, and then in the Center for Philosophy of Science. Later we were colleagues atWestern Ontario. Our friendship and collaboration owe a great deal to both these …
Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle
Essays in Honour of Abner Shimony
Av Wayne C. Myrvold, Joy Christian
Inbunden, 2009
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In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work of a remarkable man of letters. Abner Shimony, who is well known for his pioneering contributions to foundations of quantum mechanics, is a physicist …
