Philosophy of science books

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The Significance of Beauty: Kant on Feeling and the System of the Mind

The Significance of Beauty: Kant on Feeling and the...

Author: P.M. Matthews
ISBN: 9789048149216
Format: Paperback
$440.88

In the Critique of Judgment, Kant argues that feeling is part of the system of the mind. Matthews demonstrates...  Read More >>

Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895-1930: Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy of Science

Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895-1930: Or Phenomenalism as Philosophy...

Author: J.T. Blackmore ,  R. Itagaki
ISBN: 9789048157525
Format: Paperback
$630.96

Philosophers often look at the past with categories and interests taken from the present or at the least from the...  Read More >>

The Reality of the Unobservable: Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism

The Reality of the Unobservable: Observability, Unobservability...

Author: E. Agazzi ,  M. Pauri
ISBN: 9789048154586
Format: Paperback
$578.16

Observability and Scientific Realism It is commonly thought that the birth of modern natural science was made possible...  Read More >>

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, an Empiricist Approach

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, an Empiricist Approach...

Author: W.M. de Muynck
ISBN: 9789048161461
Format: Paperback
$974.16

Old and new problems of the foundations of quantum mechanics are viewed from the new perspective provided by a generalization...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Complexity: The Violet Book of `Einstein Meets Magritte'

The Evolution of Complexity: The Violet Book of `Einstein...

Author: Francis Heylighen ,  Johan Bollen
ISBN: 9789048152445
Format: Paperback
$575.52

The different sections of the book discuss the foundations and philosophy of complexity evolution, its mathematical...  Read More >>

Reference, Truth and Conceptual Schemes: A Defense of Internal Realism

Reference, Truth and Conceptual Schemes: A Defense of...

Author: G. Forrai
ISBN: 9789048156771
Format: Paperback
$287.76

In doing so I shall rely - sometimes quite heavily - on the notion of conceptual scheme. I shall use the notion...  Read More >>

Experimental Metaphysics: Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony, Volume One

Experimental Metaphysics: Quantum Mechanical Studies...

Author: Robert S. Cohen ,  M. Horne
ISBN: 9789048148080
Format: Paperback
$472.56

Experimental Metaphysics is intended for theoretical physicists and philosophers of science and is devoted to fundamental...  Read More >>

Issues in Husserl’s Ideas II

Issues in Husserl’s Ideas II

Author: Thomas Nenon ,  Lester Embree
ISBN: 9789048147465
Format: Paperback
$588.72

This volume is chiefly composed of revised versions of essays presented and discussed at the research symposium...  Read More >>

Philosophical Logic and Logical Philosophy

Philosophical Logic and Logical Philosophy

Author: P.I. Bystrov ,  V. Sadovsky
ISBN: 9789048147625
Format: Paperback
$485.76

Smirnov played an important role at the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences being the Head of...  Read More >>

Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development

Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development

Author: F. Stadler ,  Frank Stadler
ISBN: 9789048143320
Format: Paperback
$538.56

The first Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The book contains contributions...  Read More >>

Romanticism in Science: Science in Europe, 1790–1840

Romanticism in Science: Science in Europe, 1790–1840...

Author: B. van Straalen ,  S. Poggi
ISBN: 9789048142842
Format: Paperback
$541.20

History of philosophy and history of science scholars will find this book an essential reference work, as well...  Read More >>

Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy

Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy

Author: J. Faye ,  H. Folse
ISBN: 9789048142996
Format: Paperback
$712.80

Since the Niels Bohr centenary of 1985 there has been an astonishing international surge of scholarly analyses...  Read More >>

In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Volume Two of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999

In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of...

Author: Peter Gärdenfors ,  Jan Wolenski
ISBN: 9789048161454
Format: Paperback
$464.64

This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international...  Read More >>

Historical Pragmatics: Philosophical Essays

Historical Pragmatics: Philosophical Essays

Author: Robert E. Butts
ISBN: 9789048143290
Format: Paperback
$638.88

Cohen Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University TABLE OF CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE IX...  Read More >>

Defending the Axioms: On the Philosophical Foundations of Set Theory

Defending the Axioms: On the Philosophical Foundations...

Author: Penelope Maddy
ISBN: 9786613215635
Format: Electronic book text
$712.80

Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions. The axioms of...  Read More >>

Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and Beyond

Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and...

Author: Peter Anstey (University of Otago, New Zealand) ,  Dana Jalobeanu (Western University “Vasile Goldis,” Romania)
ISBN: 9780415882668
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and...  Read More >>

Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God: Essays in Honor of Patrick A. Heelan, S.J.

Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes,...

Author: B.E. Babich
ISBN: 9789048159260
Format: Paperback
$604.56

perceptual essences that can be rendered directly manifest in perception with the help of theoretically structured...  Read More >>

Incommensurability and Related Matters

Incommensurability and Related Matters

Author: Paul Hoyningen-Huene ,  H. Sankey
ISBN: 9789048157099
Format: Paperback
$440.88

Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical...  Read More >>

Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View

Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from...

Author: R. Hegselmann ,  Ulrich Mueller
ISBN: 9789048147229
Format: Paperback
$630.96

It addresses sociologists and other social scientists interested in formal modelling, mathematical sociology,...  Read More >>

The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination

The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination...

Author: W.L. Craig
ISBN: 9789048155866
Format: Paperback
$446.16

he present book and its companion volume The Tensed Theory of Time: a T Critical Examination are an attempt to adjudicate...  Read More >>

Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery

Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery...

Author: Jaakko Hintikka
ISBN: 9789048151394
Format: Paperback
$657.36

Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will...  Read More >>

Language, Quantum, Music

Language, Quantum, Music

Author: Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara ,  Roberto Giuntini
ISBN: 9789048152292
Format: Paperback
$522.72

A vivid and comprehensive picture of the current state of research in all directions of logic and philosophy of...  Read More >>

Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II

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

Author: B.E. Babich ,  Robert S. Cohen
ISBN: 9789048152346
Format: Paperback
$570.24

A collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences that features essays addressing truth, epistemology, and the philosophy...  Read More >>

Game Theory, Experience, Rationality: Foundations of Social Sciences, Economics and Ethics in honor of John C. Harsanyi

Game Theory, Experience, Rationality: Foundations of...

Author: W. Leinfellner ,  Eckehart Köhler
ISBN: 9789048149926
Format: Paperback
$448.77

When von Neumann's and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior appeared in 1944, one thought that a...  Read More >>

Inconsistency in Science

Inconsistency in Science

Author: Joke Meheus
ISBN: 9789048160235
Format: Paperback
$340.56

Central to this change were the advent of paraconsistent logics, the shift in attention from finished theories to...  Read More >>

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