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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Evaluating Philosophies Mario Bunge The first part deals with philosophies that have had a significant input, positive or negative, on the search for truth; it suggests that scientific and technological are either stimulated or smothered by a philosophical matrix; and it outlines two ontological... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-07-04 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 116,04 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Material Realization of Science Hans Radder This book develops a conception of science as a multi-dimensional practice, which includes experimental action and production, conceptual-theoretical interpretation, and formal-mathematical work. On this basis, it addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-05-03 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Characterizing the Robustness of Science Thomas Nickles , Léna Soler , Emiliano Trizio , William Wimsatt , William Wimsatt Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-03-22 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Physical Systems Ori Belkind Based on the concept of a physical system, this book offers a new philosophical interpretation of classical mechanics and the Special Theory of Relativity. According to Belkind’s view the role of physical theory is to describe the motions of the parts of a physical... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-02-02 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Development of Quine's Philosophy Murray Murphey This book covers W. V. Quine's philosophic career from his early radical empiricism and behaviorism through his development of a series of skeptical doctrines regarding meaning, reference, and science. It shows what problems he tried to solve and what his solutions... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-12-22 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Interpreting Physics Edward Mackinnon This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-11-23 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Integrating History and Philosophy of Science Seymour Mauskopf , Tad Schmaltz Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-09-06 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Niels Bohr's Complementarity Makoto Katsumori This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr’s philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically calls “spectators” and “actors.” It seeks to spell out the structural... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-09-01 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Commentary on the Principles of Thermodynamics by Pierre Duhem Paul Needham Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) held the chair of theoretical physics at Bordeaux from 1894 to his death. He established a reputation in both the history and philosophy of science as well as in science itself (physics and physical chemistry). Much of his work in the first two... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-05-30 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Honoré Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks Michael Elazar This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-05-20 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Brazilian Studies in Philosophy and History of Science Décio Krause , Antonio Videira This volume, The Brazilian Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, is the first attempt to present to a general audience, works from Brazil on this subject. The included papers are original, covering a remarkable number of relevant topics of philosophy of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-01-27 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Scientific Structuralism Alisa Bokulich , Peter Bokulich Recently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science. Taking their lead from scientific structuralists such as Henri Poincaré, Ernst Cassirer, and Bertrand Russell, some contemporary philosophers and scientists have argued that the most... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-01-21 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Science in the Context of Application Martin Carrier , Alfred Nordmann We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-11-12 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Matter and Mind Mario Bunge This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter?, and What is mind? A reason for tackling both problems in a single book is that two of the most influential views in modern philosophy are that the universe is... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-09-14 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 179,34 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Beyond Mimesis and Convention Roman Frigg , Matthew Hunter Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to devising and exploring representations of all kinds. From photographs and computer-generated images to diagrams, charts, and graphs; from scale models to... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-04-28 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Defending Copernicus and Galileo Maurice A. Finocchiaro Although recent works on Galileo’s trial have reached new heights of erudition, documentation, and sophistication, they often exhibit inflated complexities, neglect 400 years of historiography, or make little effort to learn from Galileo. This book strives to avoid such... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-01-15 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Erich Hückel (1896-1980) Andreas Karachalios Editeur : Springer Parution : 2009-12-08 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Hans Christian Ørsted And The Romantic Legacy In Science Robert M. Brain , Robert S. Cohen , Ole Knudsen This volume owes its origin to the perception of a puzzling paradox. Hans Christian Ørsted, the great Danish scientist and philosopher, was one of the founders of modern physics through his experimental discovery in 1820 of the interaction of electricity and magnetism—a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2007-09-28 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Genesis of General Relativity Jürgen Renn The transition from classical to modern physics in the ?rst half of the twentieth c- tury by quantum and relativity theories affected some of the most fundamental notions of physical thinking, such as matter, radiation, space, and time. This tran- tion thus represents a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2007-06-17 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF 885,14 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies RETHINKING EXPLANATION Johannes Persson , Petri Ylikoski This volume is a product of the international research project Theory of Explanation, which was funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS-HS). The project started in 2001 and operated for a period of three... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2007-05-16 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF 94,94 €
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