Philosophy of science books

It was only after I had finished this volume that I came across the book by Barry Bames, Scientific Knowledge and...  Read More >>

THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY Fashion is a fickle mistress. In particular, the aim of the contributions...  Read More >>

The concepts of compactness and maximal consistency turn out to have important employment, which I have tried to...  Read More >>

A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology,...  Read More >>

In the last 25 years, the concept of information has played a crucial role in communication theory, so much so that...  Read More >>

This book is intended for people interested in physics and its philosophy. for those who regard physics as an essential...  Read More >>

At once a logician, a mathematician, a careful student of the physical sciences and the social sciences, and a sharp...  Read More >>

One of the problems raised by propositions, the problem of deter­ mining whether propositions, statements or sentences...  Read More >>

One of the first to teach the new Aristotle, Richard Rufus of Cornwall here presents exciting accounts of divisibility,...  Read More >>

The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them. It...  Read More >>

Presents a project based on the belief that what we call 'intelligence' can be understood and reproduced as 'the...  Read More >>

Long before the period of perestroika in my corner, I learned from Joseph Kockelmans, Patrick Heelan, and Theodore...  Read More >>

Those involved with the applications of Bayesian reasoning will find essential discussion on the validity of Bayesianism...  Read More >>

Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical – critical realism and critical...  Read More >>

Solutions to the largest problems the world faces--climate change, energy, biodiversity loss, ocean health, water...  Read More >>

The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences, especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws,...  Read More >>

This fascinating spectrum of studies into the various rationalities of our human dealings with life - psychological,...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays is intended as a tribute to Josef Maria Jauch on his sixtieth birthd~. Josef Maria Jauch...  Read More >>

In selecting the papers for this volume I have excluded all physics papers proper. Since many of the papers were...  Read More >>

Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus...  Read More >>

SUSSMANN 1982 University of Munich viii INTRODUCTION The distinct positions present at the symposium may be roughly...  Read More >>

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Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University...  Read More >>

The aim of this collection is to present the work of Yugoslav philosophers who approach philosophy in a analytic...  Read More >>