Philosophy of science books

Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1 was wondering, asa student physicist, about the...  Read More >>

Why did the two most influential philosophers in the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger,...  Read More >>

This book is based on the assumption that the development of science has to be understood both as a social and as...  Read More >>

The present volume aims at giving a discussion ot the problems ot reductionism in contemporary life sciences. Any...  Read More >>

Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st...  Read More >>

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The idea to produce the current volume was conceived by Jiirgen Mittelstrass and Robert E. the German constructivist...  Read More >>

Regulations on human subjects research have evolved over a 20-year period and now provide a formal set of requirements...  Read More >>

Professor Danilo Zolo has written an account of Otto Neurath's epistemology which deserves careful reading by all...  Read More >>

The tremendous progress in astronomical observations over the past sixty years has revealed a vast structured universe...  Read More >>

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Philosophy of Medicine: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on five provoking questions presented...  Read More >>

Why do soldiers and warriors go into battle when the risk is great but the chance of tangible reward small? The...  Read More >>

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Quantum mechanics has reached maturity as an a wesome scientific theory, and undeniably no experiment has so far...  Read More >>

happens, how it happens, and why it happens. One place - our place, needless to say - is with one limited but central...  Read More >>

How happy it is to recall Imre Lakatos. That the new friends include a dozen scientific, historical and philosophical...  Read More >>

Writing even in overview of more than a half-century of professional life of a giant of twentieth century science...  Read More >>

From the nineteen sixties onwards a branch of philosophy of science has come to development, called history-oriented...  Read More >>

Our purpose in putting together the Selected Papers of its first Director, Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), is to try...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch ist in erster Linie als ein Beitrag zur phänomenologi- schen Aufklärung der mathematischen Erkenntnis...  Read More >>

The dilemma named in Hugh G. Petrie's title was stated by Meno in Plato's dialogue of that name: ""A man cannot...  Read More >>

As our understanding of living processes, such as inheritance, grows, so do the possibilities of applying these...  Read More >>