History: theory & methods books

Science Cultivating Practice is an institutional history of agricultural science in the Netherlands and its overseas...  Read More >>

The world was first introduced to the expertise and originality of Japanese scholars in phenomenology in Analecta...  Read More >>

Descartes' philosophy represented one of the most explicit statements of mind-body dualism in the history of philosophy....  Read More >>

In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Matthews demonstrates...  Read More >>

Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will...  Read More >>

Philosophers often look at the past with categories and interests taken from the present or at the least from the...  Read More >>

Glare is the name given to a new material for aircraft structures developed at Delft University in the Netherlands....  Read More >>

The first Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The book contains contributions...  Read More >>

History of philosophy and history of science scholars will find this book an essential reference work, as well...  Read More >>

Since the Niels Bohr centenary of 1985 there has been an astonishing international surge of scholarly analyses...  Read More >>

The inclusion of historical cases is possible, thanks to the availability of sufficiently detailed descriptions...  Read More >>

Rocas Alijos lies 180 nautical miles west of Baja California. In spite of its obvious importance for biogeographical...  Read More >>

Quantum Reprogramming resolves this long-standing dichotomy by examining the mutual relation between single systems...  Read More >>

The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent...  Read More >>

Central to this change were the advent of paraconsistent logics, the shift in attention from finished theories to...  Read More >>

A comprehensive survey of Martin-Löf's constructive type theory, considerable parts of which have only been presented...  Read More >>

I The demise of the communist party's abso­ lute rule over society has allowed researchers the public expression...  Read More >>

Anapolitanos critically examines and evaluates three basic characteristics of the Leibnizian metaphysical system:...  Read More >>

A collection of seventeen essays, this work addresses the substance of Richard Hooker's achievement as a theologian...  Read More >>

In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science...  Read More >>

People were already interested in prime numbers in ancient times, and the first result concerning the distribution...  Read More >>

Issues covered in this collection of essays include: the nature of physical laws; the basic entities that we can...  Read More >>

From a variety of perspectives, the essays presented here explore the profound interdependence of natural philosophy...  Read More >>

Present trends indicate that in the years to come transnational science, whether basic or applied and involving...  Read More >>

Possibly no one has done more to establish the history of the life sciences as a recognized university discipline...  Read More >>