Philosophy of science books

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

Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar...  Read More >>

Research Ethics for Scientists is about best practices in all the major areas of research management and practice...  Read More >>

His early work helped to shape quantum mechanics, he laid the foundations of nuclear physics and nuclear engineering,...  Read More >>

A proposal for a new model of the evolution of gene regulation networks and development that draws on work from...  Read More >>

The last decade witnessed an unprecedented annual growth of the literature dealing with the philosophy of economics,as...  Read More >>

The corps of philosophers who make up the Society for Philosophy & Technology has now been collaborating, in one...  Read More >>

At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his friendly critics, his fellow-scientist and fellow-philosophers,...  Read More >>

Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we understand...  Read More >>

By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men­ tion of philosophy lectures given by...  Read More >>

Not only has his work opened new paths of inquiry, but his enthusiasm for the discipline, his encouragement of others...  Read More >>

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In 1987, a conference on this theme was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on the occasion of the founding of...  Read More >>

x philosophy when he inaugurated a debate about the principle of methodologi­ cal individualism, a debate which...  Read More >>

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

Investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social...  Read More >>

"" Although there is a connection between the first piece and the second, the four pieces here are essentially independent....  Read More >>

A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science's claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth  Read More >>

From the vantage point of eighty years, a highly regarded scientist and theologian surveys the full spectrum of...  Read More >>

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Although Lorentz is not remembered by most as a fluid dynamicist - indeed, his fame rests primarily on his contributions...  Read More >>

It is my hope that potential readers will be patient with the old Adam of analysis, and seize the portrait of Newton's...  Read More >>

It is now twenty years since Hull fnt gave his seminal paper 'What the philosophy of biology is not', and to mark...  Read More >>

That wise scientist-philosopher-engineer Lancelot Law Whyte struggled in a place neighboring to Burwick's, and his...  Read More >>

Such inferences can be expansive, or, ampliative in the sense that the performances of such inferences actually...  Read More >>