Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521363942
Brings together work by Kant never before available in English, along with new translations of his most important publications in natural science. The volume is rich in material for the student and the scholar, with extensive linguistic and explanatory notes, editorial introductions and a glossary of key terms.
Author : David Ebrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 110705513X
This collection of groundbreaking new essays show how Aristotle's natural science illuminates fundamental topics in his philosophy.
Author : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107320119
Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It tackles a wide range of interpretative and philosophical issues. Topics discussed include the function of the famous Atlantis story, the notion of cosmology as 'myth' and as 'likely', and the role of God in Platonic cosmology. Other areas commented upon are Plato's concepts of 'necessity' and 'teleology', the nature of the 'receptacle', the relationship between the soul and the body, the use of perception in cosmology, and the work's peculiar monologue form. The unifying theme is teleology: Plato's attempt to show the cosmos to be organised for the good. A central lesson which emerges is that the Timaeus is closer to Aristotle's physics than previously thought.
Author : Jerome Kagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521518423
Jerome Kagan examines the basic goals, vocabulary, and assumptions of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, summarizing their unique contributions to our understanding of human nature.
Author : F.A Hayek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136604367
"The studies of which this book is the result have from the beginning been guided by and in the end confirmed the somewhat old-fashioned conviction of the author that it is human ideas which govern the development of human affairs," Hayek wrote in his notes in 1940. Indeed, Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason remains Hayek’s greatest unfinished work and is here presented for the first time under the expert editorship of Bruce Caldwell. In the book, Hayek argues that the abuse and decline of reason was caused by hubris, by man’s pride in his ability to reason, which in Hayek’s mind had been heightened by the rapid advance and multitudinous successes of the natural sciences, and the attempt to apply natural science methods in the social sciences.
Author : Stephen M. Barr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1932236929
Physicist Stephen M. Barr’s lucid Student’s Guide to Natural Science gives students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on physics. Barr discusses the contributions of the ancient Greeks, the medieval roots of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the role religion played in fostering the idea of a lawful natural order, and the major theoretical breakthroughs of modern physics. Throughout this thoughtful guide, Barr draws his readers’ attention to the larger themes and trends of scientific history, including the increasing unification of our view of the physical world, in which the laws of nature appear increasingly to form a single harmonious mathematical edifice.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 1997-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309051991
As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has been made a core subject in U.S. schools, and scientists from a variety of disciplines are using analytical tools originally developed by geographers. Rediscovering Geography presents a broad overview of geography's renewed importance in a changing world. Through discussions and highlighted case studies, this book illustrates geography's impact on international trade, environmental change, population growth, information infrastructure, the condition of cities, the spread of AIDS, and much more. The committee examines some of the more significant tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and display, with examples of major contributions made by geographers. Rediscovering Geography provides a blueprint for the future of the discipline, recommending how to strengthen its intellectual and institutional foundation and meet the demand for geographic expertise among professionals and the public.
Author : Agustín Udías
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004394907
From 1814, linked to their educational work, Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology in a worldwide network of universities, secondary schools and observatories.
Author : Carl Gustav Hempel
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Education
ISBN :
This volume explores the logic and methodology of scientific inquiry rather than its substantive results.
Author : Laura Garwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226284166
Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.
