Philosophy of science books

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Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences: Critical Rationalism, Critical Theory and Scientific Realism

Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences: Critical Rationalism,...

Author: N. Stockman
ISBN: 9789048183807
Format: Paperback
$591.36

For the latter, new problems came to the fore, since reflection on the sciences is, in the case of the social sciences,...  Read More >>

Antiaesthetics: An Appreciation of the Cow with the Subtile Nose

Antiaesthetics: An Appreciation of the Cow with the...

Author: Paul Ziff
ISBN: 9789048183982
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Although various sections of this work have been published separately in various journals and volumes their separate...  Read More >>

The Theory of Algorithms

The Theory of Algorithms

Author: A.A. Markov ,  N.M. Nagorny
ISBN: 9789048184538
Format: Paperback
$366.96

Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically...  Read More >>

Induction, Probability, and Causation

Induction, Probability, and Causation

Author: C.D. Broad
ISBN: 9789048183173
Format: Paperback
$578.16

In his essay on 'Broad on Induction and Probability' (first published in 1959, reprinted in this volume), Professor...  Read More >>

Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Part Four of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada-1975

Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology...

Author: Robert E. Butts ,  Jaakko Hintikka
ISBN: 9789048183517
Format: Paperback
$604.56

The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western...  Read More >>

Foundations: Logic, Language, and Mathematics

Foundations: Logic, Language, and Mathematics

Author: Hugues Leblanc ,  Elliott Mendelson
ISBN: 9789048184064
Format: Paperback
$567.60

The more traditional approaches to the history and philosophy of science and technology continue as well, and probably...  Read More >>

Mechanism, Mentalism and Metamathematics: An Essay on Finitism

Mechanism, Mentalism and Metamathematics: An Essay on...

Author: J. Webb
ISBN: 9789048183579
Format: Paperback
$620.40

My original idea was to model the refutation of mechanism on the almost universally accepted G6delian refutation...  Read More >>

The Reception of Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory: Proceedings of a Symposium Organized by the Nicolas Copernicus Committee of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science Toruń, Poland 1973

The Reception of Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory: Proceedings...

Author: J. Dobrzycki
ISBN: 9789048183401
Format: Paperback
$696.96

In 1965 the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science founded the Nicolas Copernicus Committee...  Read More >>

Philosophie et science au Moyen Age / Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages

Philosophie et science au Moyen Age / Philosophy and...

Author: Guttorm Fløistad ,  R. Klibansky
ISBN: 9789048140763
Format: Paperback
$1158.96

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Is Science Progressive?

Is Science Progressive?

Author: I. Niiniluoto
ISBN: 9789048184040
Format: Paperback
$586.08

Even though they do not exhaust the problem area of scientific change, together they constitute a step in the direction...  Read More >>

Relativity in Rotating Frames: Relativistic Physics in Rotating Reference Frames

Relativity in Rotating Frames: Relativistic Physics...

Author: G. Rizzi ,  M.L. Ruggiero
ISBN: 9789048165148
Format: Paperback
$947.76

In order to give the reader a deeper insight into this research field, the contributing authors discuss their opinions...  Read More >>

Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences

Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences

Author: Robert S. Cohen ,  Marx W. Wartofsky
ISBN: 9789048183760
Format: Paperback
$583.44

What has been called 'post-positivist' philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with historical,...  Read More >>

Ernst Mach: Physicist and Philosopher

Ernst Mach: Physicist and Philosopher

Author: Robert S. Cohen ,  Raymond J. Seeger
ISBN: 9789048183180
Format: Paperback
$345.84

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., 27 December...  Read More >>

Epistemic Analysis: A Coherence Theory of Knowledge

Epistemic Analysis: A Coherence Theory of Knowledge...

Author: Paul Ziff
ISBN: 9789048183968
Format: Paperback
$506.88

The theory presented is a coherence theory of knowledge: the con­ ception of coherence is here dominant and pervasive....  Read More >>

Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science: Selected Papers from 1951 to 1969

Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science:...

Author: Patrick Suppes
ISBN: 9789048183203
Format: Paperback
$762.96

The twenty-three papers collected in tbis volume represent an important part of my published work up to the date...  Read More >>

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

Author: Bruno Latour
ISBN: 9780822348252
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Building on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization...  Read More >>

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens...

Author: Paul A. Offit, MD
ISBN: 9780465021499
Format: Hardback
$72.60

There's a war going on out there - a silent, dangerous war. On one side are parents, bombarded with stories about...  Read More >>

La Materia, La Informacion y La Vida.: Los principios son inmutables, su interpretacion lo que queramos.

La Materia, La Informacion y La Vida.: Los principios...

Author: Catalina Arango ,  Maria Paulina Restrepo
ISBN: 9780983168300
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Este libro es para las personas que tienen un genuino interes...  Read More >>

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

Author: Bruno Latour
ISBN: 9780822348160
Format: Hardback
$137.95

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Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume II

Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction...

Author: Jaakko Hintikka ,  D. Gruender
ISBN: 9789048183616
Format: Paperback
$564.96

The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science...  Read More >>

Foundations of Objective Knowledge: The Relations of Popper’s Theory of Knowledge to that of Kant

Foundations of Objective Knowledge: The Relations of...

Author: Sergio L. de C. Fernandes
ISBN: 9789048184026
Format: Paperback
$686.40

Naturally, we may wish to understand whether Kant is relevant to Popper's philosophy of knowledge, how Popper has...  Read More >>

Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science: Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Stegmüller on the Occasion of his 60th B irth day, June 3rd, 1983. Reprinted from the Journal Erkenntnis, Vol. 19, Nos 1,2 and 3

Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science:...

Author: Carl G. Hempel ,  H. Putnam
ISBN: 9789048183890
Format: Paperback
$781.44

Wolfgang Stegmuller was born on June 3rd, 1923, at Natters near Innsbruck. He received his doctorates in economics...  Read More >>

Mathematical Thought: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics

Mathematical Thought: An Introduction to the Philosophy...

Author: E.W. Beth ,  Horace Glover
ISBN: 9789048183272
Format: Paperback
$462.00

I wish to thank Mr. Mooij and Mrs. Barth most cordially for the care with which they have acquitted themselves of...  Read More >>

The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in the Social Sciences

The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in the Social...

Author: B. Glassner ,  J.D. Moreno
ISBN: 9789048184606
Format: Paperback
$520.08

Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded...  Read More >>

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