Philosophy of science books

The papers that follow were read and discussed at the first Symposium on Exact Philosophy. The expression 'exact...  Read More >>

Only recently has the phenomenon of technology become an object of in­ terest for philosophers.  Read More >>

The idea for this issue arose during a gathering of scholars to com­ memorate the hundredth anniversary of Moritz...  Read More >>

The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible...  Read More >>

A vacuum, classically understood, contains nothing. The quantum vacuum, on the other hand, is a seething cauldron...  Read More >>

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The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo­ quium for the Philosophy of Science held in...  Read More >>

After many years of skating over, skimming through and skirting round this issue in my studies of intertheory relations...  Read More >>

The essays in this collection have been written for Gerd Buchdahl, by colleagues, students and friends, and are...  Read More >>

One of them, himself no stranger to hard thought, was one day heard to comment on his colleagues in another faculty...  Read More >>

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The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at a sym­ posium held at the University of Pennsylvania...  Read More >>

These essays on Finalization in Science - The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress comprise a remarkable, problematic...  Read More >>

Preamble We understand in the following the Theory of Decisions in a broader sense than is presently customary,...  Read More >>

THE EDITORS v TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE v PART 1/ PROOF THEORY GEORG KREISEL / Some Facts from the Theory of Proofs...  Read More >>

Costa de Beauregard's scientific career has focused on three domains - special relativity, statistics and irreversibility,...  Read More >>

What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate...  Read More >>

The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time. This volume features original essays by...  Read More >>

The following bibliography, arranged chronologically, permits the reader to follow the development of phenomenological...  Read More >>

This book is intended as an exposition of a particular theory of time in the sense of an interrelated set of attempted...  Read More >>

This is a collection of high-quality research papers in the philosophy of science, deriving from papers presented...  Read More >>

This book is devoted to the problems of the growth of science. I believe the Correspondence Principle to be a basic...  Read More >>

The concept of observability of entities in physical science is typically analyzed in terms of the nature and significance...  Read More >>

Studies on different aspects of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy have been published during the last thirty years. The...  Read More >>

Even more than we dared to expect during the preparatory stages, the papers in this volume prove that our thinking...  Read More >>