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    Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401587150
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 408 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 184
    DDC: 530.12
    Keywords: Physics ; Science Philosophy ; Quantum theory ; History
    Abstract: This is not a Festschrift in honor of David Bohm or a collection of papers simply stating uncritically a particular interpretation of quantum mechanics. Rather, it is a contribution to the serious and ongoing critical analysis, extension and application of the central ideas of David Bohm's version of quantum mechanics to test them for consistency, empirical adequacy and fruitfulness in generating new avenues of research. The papers in this volume are grouped around four main topics: the essentials of Bohmian mechanics; detailed applications and extensions of these basics; historical and conceptual analyses of the program; comparisons and contrasts with other formulations of quantum mechanics. This book will be of interest to physicists and to philosophers and historians of science - really to anyone concerned with foundational issues in quantum mechanics
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8715-0
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    Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809-1877): Visionary Mathematician, Scientist and Neohumanist Scholar : Papers from a Sesquicentennial Conference (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401587532
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXX, 369 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 187
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 187
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Linguistics ; Logic ; History ; Historical linguistics. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Mathematical logic.
    Abstract: In this volume specialists in mathematics, physics, and linguistics present the first comprehensive analysis of the ideas and influence of Hermann G. Graßmann (1809-1877), the remarkable universalist whose work recast the foundations of these disciplines and shaped the course of their modern development
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8753-2
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    Truthlikeness for Multidimensional, Quantitative Cognitive Problems (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401705509
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 223 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 254
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Logic ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book is concerned with the problem of applying the theory of verisimilitude to cognitive problems of a quantitative nature. Attention is mostly focused on hypotheses concerned with (physical or other) systems whose state can be represented with an element of a multidimensional state space, but hypotheses concerned with quantitative laws are also considered. The book provides a systematic introduction to the main contemporary forms of the theory of verisimilitude, including both proposed definitions of quantitative degrees of verisimilitude and proposed definitions of the relation `closer to the truth than'. It shows why the quantitative measures that have been proposed earlier produce unacceptable results in the multidimensional case and, using the tools of geometric measure theory, works out alternatives for them in detail. In addition, the standard structuralist theory of science and the way in which the problems of approximation are dealt with in it are presented and evaluated critically
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0550-9
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    Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science : Beijing International Conference, 1992 (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401586382
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 495 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 169
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 169
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Metaphysics ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: In these papers derived from an international conference held in 1992 in Beijing, Chinese and Western philosophers treat current as well as historically situated issues of realism and anti-realism in the understanding of scientific knowledge. There are four sections: (1) philosophical arguments proper (Hilpinen, Krejci, Musgrave, Niiniluoto, Qiu Renzong, Sfendoni-Mentzou, Bahm, Wallner and Peschl); (2) realism and general methodology (James Brown, Franklin, Gavroglu, Kaiser, Chin-Tai Kim, Wartofsky, Watkins, Wright, Wu Qiongbing, Yin Zhengkun); (3) physical sciences (Fan Dainian, Folse, He Zuoxiu, Hong Dingguo, Jin Wulun, Johansson, Li Li, Luo and Hu, Mao Shiying, Schagrin, Schlagel, Zhou Jihong); (4) social and biological sciences (Mäki, Shanahan, Paul Tang and Ralph Brown III, Cohen). The conference was inspired by the late Professor Tscha Hung of Beijing, for many years Director of the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Beijing University, and a distinguished PhD from the University of Vienna in 1934 under Moritz Schlick
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8638-2
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    Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401587174
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 483 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 179
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 179
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and sociology of the natural sciences. It began publication as a response to China's reform, particularly the policy of opening to the outside world. Chinese scholars began to undertake distinctive, original research in these fields. This collection provides a cross-section of their efforts during the initial phase. To enable western scholars to understand the historical process of this change in Chinese academics, Yu Guangyuan's `On the Emancipation of the Mind' and Xu Liangying's `Essay on the Role of Science and Democracy in Society' have been included in this collection. Three of the papers included on the philosophy of science are discussions of philosophical issues in cosmology and biology by scientists themselves. The remaining four are written by philosophers of science and discuss information and cognition, homeostasis and Chinese traditional medicine, the I Ching (Yi Jing) and mathematics, etc. Papers have been selected on the history of both classical and modern science and technology, the most distinctive of which are macro-comparisons of the development of science in China and the west. Some papers discuss the issue of the demarcation of periods in the history of science, the history of ancient Chinese mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, machinery, medicine, etc. Others discuss the history of modern physics and biology, the history of historiography of science in China and the history of regional development of Chinese science and technology. Also included are biographies of three post-eighteenth-century Chinese scholars, Li Shanlan (1811-1882), Hua Hengfang (1833&endash;1902), and Cai Yuanpei (1868&endash;1940), who contributed greatly to the introduction of western science and scholarship to China. In addition, three short papers have been included introducing the interactions between Chinese scholars and three great western scientists, Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and Robert A. Millikan
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8717-4
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  • 6
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    Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401586078
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 247 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 12
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 12
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; History ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The essays in this volume of the Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science series are devoted to the subjects of natural kinds, scientific methodology and laws of nature. There is a multiplicity of interconnections to be found between the various issues that arise under these broad subjects. Examples of these issues include: the nature of physical laws; the basic entities that we can expect the world to consist of; the problem of induction; the aim(s) of science; the discovery of natural laws through scientific methods; natural necessity and its status; etc. Each contribution to this volume highlights one or more aspects of the interconnecting themes. Although natural kinds and their associated topics have been discussed elsewhere, the essays in this volume extend the scope of related issues and also offer new insight into some of the traditional problems in the philosophy of science
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8607-8
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    Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401586863
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 320 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 23
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 23
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Science Philosophy ; Systems theory ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology. ; System theory. ; Control theory. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large computational capacities are now available. Both make computer-based model building and simulation possible in social science, whose central aim is in particular an understanding of social dynamics. Such social dynamics refer to public opinion formation, partner choice, strategy decisions in social dilemma situations and much more. In the context of such modelling approaches, novel problems in philosophy of science arise which must be analysed - the main aim of this book. Interest in social simulation has recently been growing rapidly world- wide, mainly as a result of the increasing availability of powerful personal computers. The field has also been greatly influenced by developments in cellular automata theory (from mathematics) and in distributed artificial intelligence which provided tools readily applicable to social simulation. This book presents a number of modelling and simulation approaches and their relations to problems in philosophy of science. It addresses sociologists and other social scientists interested in formal modelling, mathematical sociology, and computer simulation as well as computer scientists interested in social science applications, and philosophers of social science
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8686-3
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    Life in the Glory of Its Radiating Manifestations : 25th Anniversary Publication Book I (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400916029
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 590 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 48
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of nature ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Western thought is surging, on the rebound from centuries of a merely background interest. Life is presenting crucial challenges to the human mind in science, technology, culture and social existence; challenges which reach the core of existence, human destiny, and the very meaningfulness - the human significance of life itself. The compartementalized sciences fall short of responding to this challenge, and present day philosophy by and large renounced its vocation of carrying the torch of reason. In this post-modern darkness, the Phenomenology of Life and of the Human Condition excavate and bring to light the Logos of Life in its entire harmonizing interplay. In the present collection, which continues the long and winding itinerary of our previous probings, we first uncover the new field of the ontopoiesis of life by means of the self-individualisation of life, the key to its labyrinth (Tymieniecka). A network of the ontopoietic itineraries manifest life in its innumerable perspectives: the constructive scanning (chronos and Kairos) are treated specifically by Eva Syristova, M. Bielawka, F. Bosio, and M.A. Cecilia. Individualising dynamisms of passions and the tying of the communal order by G. Bucher, R. Sweeney, A. Polis, A. Zvie Bar-On and others. The life-struggle for the light of the spirit by L. Sundararajan, I.R. Owen etc. The deep springs of mundaneity in human existence (moral sense, empathy, communication) by A. Luse, A. Ales Bello, J. Cibulka, J. Sivak, etc. The life of the spirit (historicity) by M. Sancipriano, M. Cekic, H. Rodríguez Piñeiro, S. Rinofner-Kreidl and others
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1602-9
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    Aristotle’s Idea of the Soul (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401707855
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 187 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 68
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Science Philosophy ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy, Ancient. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Aristotle's Idea of the Soul considers the nature of the soul within Aristotle's psychology and natural philosophy. A survey is provided of the contemporary interpretations of Aristotle's idea of the soul, which are prominent in the Aristotelian scholarship within the analytic tradition. These interpretations are divided into two positions: `attributivism', which considers the soul to be a property; and `substantialism', which considers it to be a thing. Taxonomies are developed for attributivism and substantialism, and the cases for each of them are considered. It is concluded that neither position may be maintained without compromise, since Aristotle ascribes to the soul features that belong exclusively to a thing and exclusively to a property. Aristotle treats the soul as a `property-thing', as a cross between a thing and a property. It is argued that Aristotle comes by this idea of the soul because his hylomorphism casts the soul as a property and his causal doctrine presents it as a causal agent and thereby as a thing
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0785-5
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    The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400917866
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (328p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 182
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 182
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Aesthetics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of nature ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This collection of essays ranges from phenomenological descriptions of the beautiful in science to analytical explorations of the philosophical conjunction of the aesthetic and the scientific. The book is organized around two central tenets. The first is that scientific experience is laden with an emotive content of the beautiful, which is manifest in the conceptualization of raw data, both in the particulars of presenting and experiencing the phenomenon under investigation, and in the broader theoretical formulation that binds the facts into unitary wholes. The second major theme acknowledges that there may be deeply shared philosophical foundations underlying science and aesthetics, but in the twentieth century such commonality has become increasingly difficult to discern. The problem accounts in large measure for the recurrent debate on how to link Science and Beauty, and the latent tension inherent in the effort to tentatively explore what is oftentimes only their intuited synthesis
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1786-6
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    Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400917422
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (332p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 256
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Anthropology ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. Contributors explore parallels and tensions between feminist approaches to science and other approaches in the philosophy of science and more general science studies. In so doing, they explore notions at the heart of the philosophy of science, including the nature of objectivity, truth, evidence, cognitive agency, scientific method, and the relationship between science and values
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1742-2
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    Schrödinger’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400917729
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 292 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 188
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 188
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    Keywords: Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Quantum theory ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Quantum physics. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: This book gives a comprehensive account of Schrödinger's successive interpretations of quantum mechanics, culminating in their final synthesis in the 1950s. Schrödinger's original position in the realism-anti-realism debate is analyzed. His views on the wave-corpuscle issue are contrasted with Bohr's, and his conceptions of the measurement problem are systematically compared with current no-collapse interpretations
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1772-9
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    Spanish Studies in the Philosophy of Science (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400903050
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 363 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 186
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 186
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Ethics ; History ; Biology—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: An anthology of contemporary philosophy of science in Spain. Essays on 19th Century physics, the new cosmology, philosophy of biology, scientific rationality, philosophy of mathematics, phenomenology's account of scientific progress, science and ethics, philosophy of economics, methodology, and the philosophy of technology
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0305-0
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    The Metaphysics of Science : An Account of Modern Science in terms of Principles, Laws and Theories (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401586214
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 246 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 173
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 173
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Biology—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: 1. Empiricism vs. Realism — The Perennial Debate in the Philosophy of Science -- 2. Fundamental and Refined Principles: The Core of Modern Science -- 3. Empirical Laws: The Supervention of Experience -- 4. Scientific Theories: Closing the Circle -- 5. The Principle-Theory-Law Model of Scientific Explanation -- 6. The Social Sciences: A Consideration of Economics -- 7. Natural Kinds -- 8. Probability and Confirmation -- 9. Empiricism vs. Realism Revisited -- 10. Modern Science and the Future -- References.
    Abstract: The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981. One of its topics, the distinction between scientific laws and theories, is there treated with reference to the same distinction as drawn by N. R. Campbell in his Physics: The Elements. Shortly after completing Scientific Progress, I read Rom Harre's The Principles of Scientific Thinking, in which the concept of theory is even more clearly delineated than in Campbell, being directly con­ nected to the notion of a model - as it was in my book. In subsequent considerations regarding science, Harre's work thus became my main source of inspiration with regard to theories, while Campbell's re­ mained my main source with respect to empiricallaws. Around the same time I also read William Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. In this work, Whewell depicts principles as playing a central role in the formation of science, and conceives of them in much the same way as Kant conceives of fundamental syn­ thetic a priori judgements. The idea that science should have principles as a basic element immediately made sense to me, and from that time I have thought of science in terms of laws, theories and principles.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8621-4
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    Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and early 20th century Germany and Britain (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400917842
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 1
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    Keywords: Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Economics ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Physics—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate one another. The first three contributions concern optics and industry in 19th century Germany; the fourth concerns electric standards in Germany during the same period; the last essay in the volume examines a curious development in the early history of wireless signalling that took place in England, and that has much to say about the establishment and enforcement of standard methods in a rapidly-developing technology that emerged out of a scientific effect. Historical work over the last few decades has shown that technology cannot be characterized simply, or even usually, as applied science. The beliefs, the devices, and the natural objects that are created or discovered by scientists, often play altogether minor roles in the construction of technologies. Taking this realization as a given, the essays in Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards effectively argue that we must now seek to go beyond it; we must also begin to think carefully about the role that science actually did play when it was explicitly deployed by technologists
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1784-2
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    Philosophical Logic and Logical Philosophy : Essays in Honour of Vladimir A. Smirnov (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789401586788
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 278 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 257
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Logic ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This volume contains original contributions dedicated to Vladimir A. Smirnov by some of the leading scholars in Russia, the United States, Japan, Finland, Brazil, the Netherlands, Poland, and Hungary. Most of the papers deal with topics in which Smirnov has taken a direct interest. These include the problems of non-classical logics, logical semantics, analysis of logical proofs, and applications of logical methods to the methodology of science. The volume contains a selected bibliography of Smirnov's works. It is of interest to all students of philosophical and mathematical logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of science
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8678-8
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    Mexican Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400901094
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (292p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 172
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 172
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Logic ; History ; Mathematics. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The editors have selected a number of papers that represent recent studies by Mexican philosophers and historians of science. While attention is paid to several main developments of science in Mexico, the book does not deal only with national or even regional issues. Moreover, Mexican works on the philosophy of science are no new phenomenon. Although originating in the need to construct a national identity during the 19th century, and stimulated by the European Enlightenment, Mexican scholarship has now reached maturity, both in terms of an awareness of their historical situation and creative competence with respect to the live issues at the international level. This book presents topics of biology and physics, historical explanation and the historiography of science, and foundations of mathematics, with particular concern for Hilbert, Russell and Wittgenstein
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0109-4
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    Tradition and Innovation : Newton’s Metaphysics of Nature (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400915817
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 292 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 56
    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 56
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    Keywords: Science Philosophy ; Metaphysics ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: There is a thematic unity to these essays on Newton's thought: they are concerned with the central categories of Newton's metaphysics of nature (matter, causation, force, space, time) and the ways in which Newton's work relates to cultural themes such as providence and creation. Focusing on questions of tradition and innovation and Newton's engaged response to the broader patterns of his contemporary culture, they present a unified, interpretive stance that often challenges the scholarly orthodoxies. The essays contain a large body of unpublished manuscript material that is related exegetically to the corpus of Newton's published writings. Accordingly, they provide a fresh basis for understanding and clarifying the inner dynamics of Newton's thought. Audience: Historians, philosophers and sociologists of early modern thought, and those who have an interest in the intellectual achievements of Isaac Newton
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1581-7
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    Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science : Part II: Biology, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Economics Essays in Honor of Hugues Leblanc (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400901131
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 308 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 178
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 178
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Philosophy of mind ; Sociology—Methodology. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Biology—Philosophy. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: This, the second of two volumes of essays written by scholars from Québec, is dedicated to the eminent and pioneering logician, Hugues Leblanc. Together, the volumes comprise the first full-scale, English-language collection of studies in the philosophy and history of science from the French and English culture of Québec. They will be appreciated as a major contribution to North-American philosophy of science. Audience: The second volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars engaged in research in the philosophy of biology, psychology, cognitive science and economics
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0113-1
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    Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science : Part I: Logic, Mathematics, Physics and History of Science Essays in Honor of Hugues Leblanc (1996)
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    ISBN: 9789400915756
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 331 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 177
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic ; History ; Mathematical logic. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: This is the first of two volumes of essays dedicated to the eminent and pioneering logician, Hugues Leblanc. The volumes comprise the first, full-scale, English-language collection of studies in the philosophy and history of science from the French and English culture of Québec. They will be appreciated as a major contribution to North-American philosophy of science. Audience: The first volume is of particular interest to students and scholars engaged in research into the philosophical foundations and history of logic, mathematics and physics
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1575-6
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    The Concept of Knowledge : The Ankara Seminar (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401732635
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (LVIII, 246 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 170
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: 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 Ankara in 1989. The 17 papers derived from the lectures and discussions deal with problems of knowing and believing, of the kinds and criteria of knowledge, of truth and fallibility, and of the cultural as well as individual factors in cognition. The authors include Guido Küng, L. Jonathan Cohen, Ernest Sosa, Arda Denkel, Venant Cauchy, David Evans, Gürol Irzik, Ioanna Kuçuradi, Evandro Agazzi, Richard T. DeGeorge, Kwasi Wiredu, Teo Grünberg, H. Odera Oruka, Jindrich Zeleny, V.A. Lektorsky, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and Francisco Miro Quesada. There is a critical and analytical Prologue by the convener of the Seminar, Ioanna Kuçuradi
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3263-5
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    Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community : Essays in the philosophy and history of the natural sciences and mathematics In honor of Robert S. Cohen (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401726580
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVII, 388 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 163
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 163
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Physics. ; Astronomy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Mathematics.
    Abstract: In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the essays, as well as their originality, and their critical and historical depth, pay tribute to the extraordinary scope of Professor Cohen's intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher and a humanist, and also to his engagement in the world of social and political practice. The essays presented in Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community (Volume I of Essays in Honor of Robert S. Cohen) focus on philosophical and historical issues in contemporary physics: on the origins and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, on the reception and understanding of Bohr's and Einstein's work, on the emergence of quantum electrodynamics, and on some of the sharp philosophical and scientific issues that arise in current scientific practice (e.g. in superconductivity research). In addition, several essays deal with critical issues within the philosophy of science, both historical and contemporary: e.g. with Cartesian notions of mechanism in the philosophy of biology; with the language and logic of science - e.g. with new insights concerning the issue of a `physicalistic' language in the arguments of Neurath, Carnap and Wittgenstein; with the notion of `elementary logic'; and with rational and non-rational elements in the history of science. Two original contributions to the history of mathematics and some studies in the comparative sociology of science round off this outstanding collection
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2658-0
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    Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules : True Statements in Knowing and Action * Computer Modelling of Human Knowing Activity * Coherent Description as the Core of Scholarship and Science (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401585491
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (380 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Cognitive Systems 18
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Systems theory ; Phenomenology ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; System theory. ; Control theory. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Human knowing is examined as it emerges from classical empirical psychology, with its ramifications into language, computing, science, and scholarship. While the discussion takes empirical support from a wide range, claims for the significance of logic and rules are challenged throughout. Highlights of the discussion: knowing is a matter of habits or dispositions that guide the person's stream of consciousness; rules of language have no significance in language production and understanding, being descriptions of linguistic styles; statements that may be true or false enter into ordinary linguistic activity, not as elements of messages, but merely as summaries of situations, with a view to action; in computer programming the significance of logic, proof, and formalized description, is incidental and subject to the programmer's personality; analysis of computer modelling of the mental activity shows that in describing human knowing the computer is irrelevant; in accounting for the scholarly/scientific activity, logic and rules are impotent; a novel theory: scholarship and science have coherent descriptions as their core. The discussion addresses questions that are basic to advanced applications of computers and to students of language and science
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8549-1
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    Other Minds (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401585101
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 168 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 246
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy of mind ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: This new study is by far the most comprehensive examination yet of a problem that involves us all: the basis of our knowledge that others have minds. It insists, against the received wisdom, that no theory of mind can avoid the problem or make it easier to solve. Nor is there any way to avoid a crucial reliance on the theorist's own experience. Alec Hyslop defends a (modified) version of the traditional analogical inference to other minds and rejects alternatives, but only after subjecting each of them to a sustained, searching examination. Other Minds is a densely argued, original contribution to philosophy that will be useful, given its comprehensiveness and its non-technical language, to all who are interested in this great issue
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8510-1
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    Wittgenstein: Mind and Language (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401736916
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (328 p. 2 illus) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 245
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy—History. ; Life sciences. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Wittgenstein: Mind and Language brings together a collection of previously unpublished essays which offer a systematic account of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and contribute in an absolutely new and original way to illuminating his later conception of human perceptive, emotional and cognitive language from both a theoretical and an historical point of view. The focus is on the fundamental categories of philosophical grammar, on the analysis of intentionality, of belief and Moore's paradox, on certainty and doubt, on will, memory, sensations and emotions, as well as on the theory of aspects and private language and the relationship with relativism and psychologism. In the recent literature there are undoubtedly numerous qualified publications dedicated to the themes of philosophical psychology as they emerge from Wittgenstein's Nachlaß and from his writings on this subject published in the last decade. This book, however, provides the essential points of reference of Wittgenstein's late treatment of psychological concepts in the context of the general features of his early philosophy of science and language and in the framework of the trends of his time. The book is of special interest to scholars and students, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, logicians, historians of contemporary philosophy and science
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3691-6
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    The Problem of Rationality in Science and its Philosophy : On Popper vs. Polanyi The Polish Conferences 1988-89 (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401104616
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 276 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 160
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy of mind ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Biology—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The book is an outcome of two conferences held in Poland in 1987 and 1990. Both conferences dealt with the problem of rationality; the first put the problem in the context of the philosophy of Popper and Polanyi; and the second involved the notion of the aim of science. This book presents the most comprehensive current account of the manifold approaches to the problem of rationality and related issues. Generally speaking, some authors are convinced that the standard approach to the problem of rationality is more or less correct. They try to amend this approach and/or to reply to some objections to it. Others adopt a more radical attitude and seek inspiration in more exotic regions of philosophy of science, in particular in the philosophy of Michael Polanyi. In this case not only the problem of rationality of science is addressed but also the problem of rationality of the philosophy of science itself. What makes the book really fascinating is the common attitude of all authors in addressing fundamental issues pertaining to the problem of rationality. This results from the fact that both conferences were organized for a small number of participants and there was time for discussion within a friendly but demanding social environment. The book is primarily intended for researchers in the philosophy of science. It is also valuable to other philosophers interested in current trends in philosophy of science, to scientists of various disciplines interested in philosophy, to scientists and to graduate students in the philosophy of science
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0461-6
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    Satisfying Reason : Studies in the Theory of Knowledge (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401104838
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 246 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Episteme, A Series in the Foundational, Methodological, Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological, and Political Aspects of the Sciences, Pure and Applied 21
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    Abstract: Leibniz said with a mixture of admiration and inspiration that the Duchess Sophie of Hannover always wanted to know the reason why behind the reason why. And that is just how rationality works: it wants to leave no loose ends to understanding, seeking to enable us to understand things through to the bitter end. In the twelve chapters that make up Satisfying Reason, Rescher develops and defends the following perspective: That rationality is a cardinal virtue in cognitive matters. That this is not something simple and cut-and-dried: in the pursuit of truth through the development of knowledge we face obstacles -- sometimes even insuperable ones. All that we can do is the best we can, realizing that even our very best may still be imperfect. Nevertheless, the venture is far from hopeless. While absolutes are unattainable in the cognitive venture, some solutions are situationally optimal, being comparatively the best that can be managed under the circumstances. That reason itself enables us to come to terms with this state of affairs, urging us to accept the best we can do as good enough. Satisfying Reason is an explanation of the presuppositions and methods of rational enquiry, an original exercise in metaknowledge, developing a systematic body of knowledge about the scope and limits of knowledge itself
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0483-8
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    Heaven, Earth, and In-Between in the Harmony of Life (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401102476
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 47
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This volume marks a phase of accomplishment in the work of the World Phenomenology Institute in unfolding a dialogue between Occidental phenomenology and the Oriental/Chinese classic philosophy. Going beyond the stage of reception, the Oriental scholars show in this collection of studies their perspicacity and philosophical skills in comparing the concepts, ideas, the vision of classic phenomenology and Chinese philosophy toward uncovering their common intuitions. This in-depth probing aims at reviving Occidental thinking, reaching to its intuitive sources, as well as providing Chinese thinking with a precise apparatus of expression toward its rejuvenation in a new significance. Studies by Korean and Chinese phenomenologists: Nam-In Lee, Inhui Park, Benjamin I. Schwartz, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Sitansu Ray, Zhang Xian, Zhang Qingxiong, Tsung-I Dow, Ashok K. Gangadean, Yushiro Takei, Louise Sunderarajan, Gregory Tropea, James Sellmann, Tyong Bok Rhie, Sang-Ki Kim, Daniel Zelinski, Qingjie Wang, Calvin O. Schrag, Jung-Sun Han
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0247-6
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    Critical Rationalism, Metaphysics and Science : Essays for Joseph Agassi Volume I (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401104715
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 266 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 161
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Logic ; Metaphysics ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The distinguished contributors from three continents focus in this book particularly on the broad philosophical framework known as critical rationalism, testing its limitations, and discovering surprising connections. The essays well illustrate the fecundity and range of Professor Agassi's interests, and the broad range of persons he has influenced. Of particular concern in the volume are the broad frameworks of rationality and of religion. The religion of science, which is something Agassi has always opposed, is debated here. Among other distinguished contributors, the volume contains one of the last papers by the late Paul K. Feyerabend
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-0471-5
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    From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire : Essays in Honor of William J. Richardson, S.J (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401716246
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 640 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Collection Fondée par H.L. van Breda et Publiée Sous le Patronage des Centres d’Archives-Husserl 133
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H. L. Van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives 133
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Public health ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: For both continental and analytic styles of philosophy, the thought of Martin Heidegger must be counted as one of the most important influences in contemporary philosophy. In this book, essays by internationally noted scholars, ranging from David B. Allison to Slavoj Zizek, honour the interpretive contributions of William J. Richardson's pathbreaking Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought. The essays move from traditional phenomenology to the idea of essential (another) thinking, the questions of translation and existential expressions of the turn of Heidegger's thought, the intersection of politics and language, the philosophic significance of Jacques Lacan, and several essays on science and technology. All show the influence of Richardson's first study. A valuable emphasis appears in Richardson's interpretation of Heidegger's conception of die Irre, interpreted as Errancy, set in its current locus in a discussion of Heidegger's debacle with the political in his involvement with National Socialism
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    The Creation of Ideas in Physics : Studies for a Methodology of Theory Construction (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401100373
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 255 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 55
    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 55
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Mathematical physics.
    Abstract: The Creation of Ideas in Physics: Studies for a Methodology of Theory Construction is a collection of essays by physicists, philosophers, and historians about how physical theories are developed. It includes major, new studies of Newton's methods and of the genesis of the theories of relativity. Also featured are reflective analyses of the alternatives facing contemporary theoretical physicists investigating problems in cosmology and quantum gravity. The book is rich in critical interactions among the authors. Its unusual ambition is to engage thinkers in the diverse disciplines of science studies in a common quest to delineate the creative thinking responsible for major advances in physical theory. The volume explores the possibility of learning something general about what distinguishes productive from abortive directions of theoretical inquiry, something that both illuminates the nature of scientific thought and enriches the methodological prescriptions that guide research
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    Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906 : Book One: A Documentary History (1995)
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    ISBN: 9789401704892
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 272 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 168
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—History. ; Physics. ; Astronomy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; System theory.
    Abstract: This book gives the first detailed record of Ludwig Boltzmann's life and philosophical thoughts during his final years, a period of major change in physics, needing a new methodology of theoretical, idealized science. The growing primacy of physical theory over observation and experimentation meant that Boltzmann needed a methodology which went beyond Ernst Mach's phenomenalism and theory of economy. The documentary approach of this book means that historians, philosophers, and physicists can use it as a source and foundation for better understanding the development of quantum and relativity theory, the new advances in methodology, and as an aid in improving or creating their own contributions to methodology and philosophy of science. Seeds of future linguistic philosophy are also present
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0489-2
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