Author : Theodore Schick
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 1999-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780767402774
This anthology traces the development of thinking in the philosophy of science from logical positivism to the present. Subsequent articles often clarify or critique preceding ones. As a result, students get a sense of how philosophical theories develop in response to one another.
Author : David Boersema
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN :
This new anthology, which integrates explanatory text, primary source readings, and case studies, provides students of any major (philosophy, science, or other) with an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of science. The anthology is organized around a unique "three-pronged" approach: the metaphysical (what), the epistemological (how), and the axiological (why). The topics covered build coherently and logically: from issues of scientific method to ethical issues, to science's most current social and political implications. They demonstrate how philosophy of science is relevant in a modern day context. The anthology carefully examines the theoretical apparatus of the philosophy of science and applies it to rich case studies from the history of science.
Author : John W. Carroll
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822958529
As a subject of inquiry, laws of nature exist in the overlap between metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Over the past three decades, this area of study has become increasingly central to the philosophy of science. It also has relevance to a variety of topics in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Readings on Laws of Nature is the first anthology to offer a contemporary history of the problem of laws. The book is organized around three key issues: the matter of distinguishing laws from mere correlations, questions concerning inductive reasoning and laws, and the consideration of whether there are any true laws in science. Designed for class use, the anthology covers a remarkably broad range of views and concerns, and consists exclusively of articles that have proved highly influential in the field. Readings on Laws of Nature will also serve as a valuable research and reference tool for philosophers who do not specialize in the subject, but who have occasion to examine concepts relating to the laws of nature in their own work.
Author : E. D. Klemke
Publisher :
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
This popular reader has been vastly updated with ten stimulating new selections on the natural and the social sciences: feminism; postmodernism, relativism, and science; confirmation, acceptance, and theory; explanatory unification; and science and values. Retaining the best essays from the previous editions, the editors have added important new pieces to maintain this influential text's relevance.
Author : Mark Bedau
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Emergence (Philosophy).
ISBN :
Readings on the idea of emergence in evolution and classical works on emergence found in contemporary philosophy and science. Australian contributor.
Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1983-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 110726815X
This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities. The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are all considered. 'Intervening' presents the first sustained treatment of experimental science for many years and uses it to give a new direction to debates about realism. Hacking illustrates how experimentation often has a life independent of theory. He argues that although the philosophical problems of scientific realism can not be resolved when put in terms of theory alone, a sound philosophy of experiment provides compelling grounds for a realistic attitude. A great many scientific examples are described in both parts of the book, which also includes lucid expositions of recent high energy physics and a remarkable chapter on the microscope in cell biology.
Author : Ahmad Raza
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781612099972
The present volume is a collection of original articles of high quality on the Philosophy of Science by philosophers and scientists of international repute. As the title of the book suggests, it looks at the various points of view of leading practitioners, as well as philosophers on the nature and structure of our knowledge of the physical world. The present work brings forth the fundamental ideas of Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Popper, Einstein, Thomas Kuhn and several other leading scientists and philosophers.
Author : Kent W. Staley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1316094375
This book guides readers by gradual steps through the central concepts and debates in the philosophy of science. Using concrete examples from the history of science, Kent W. Staley shows how seemingly abstract philosophical issues are relevant to important aspects of scientific practice. Structured in two parts, the book first tackles the central concepts of the philosophy of science, such as the problem of induction, falsificationism, and underdetermination, and important figures and movements, such as the logical empiricists, Thomas Kuhn, and Paul Feyerabend. The second part turns to contemporary debates in the philosophy of science, such as scientific realism, explanation, the role of values in science, the different views of scientific inference, and probability. This broad yet detailed overview will give readers a strong grounding whilst also providing opportunities for further exploration. It will be of particular interest to students of philosophy, the philosophy of science, and science.
Author : May Brodbeck
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Social sciences
ISBN :
"Selected bibliography": pages 737-768. Bibliographical footnotes.
Author : David M. Kaplan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 074256536X
Ideal for professors who want to provide a comprehensive set of the most important readings in the philosophy of technology, from foundational to the cutting edge, this book introduces students to the various ways in which societies, technologies, and environments shape one another. The readings examine the nature of technology as well as the effects of technologies upon human knowledge, activities, societies, and environments. Students will learn to appreciate the ways that philosophy informs our understanding of technology, and to see how technology relates to ethics, politics, nature, human nature, computers, science, food, and animals.
