Philosophy of science books

Aims to reveal the outstanding personality underlying Majorana's notes. A mixture of mathematical command, physics...  Read More >>

Constructive mathematics is based on the thesis that the meaning of a mathematical formula is given, not by its...  Read More >>

Anapolitanos critically examines and evaluates three basic characteristics of the Leibnizian metaphysical system:...  Read More >>

Issues covered in this collection of essays include: the nature of physical laws; the basic entities that we can...  Read More >>

This is the first of two volumes comprising the papers submitted for publication by the invited participants to...  Read More >>

For some years we have been conducting at the University of Haifa an interdisciplinary seminar on explanation in...  Read More >>

"" Although these distinctions continue to haunt much of the theoretical discussion in philosophy and sociology...  Read More >>

This book deals with a basic problem arising within the Bayesian approach 1 to scientific methodology, namely the...  Read More >>

Since their appearance in the late 19th century, the Cantor--Dedekind theory of real numbers and philosophy of...  Read More >>

Bell's Theorem and its associated implications for the nature of the physical world remain topics of great interest....  Read More >>

Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences contains a series of explorations of the different ways in which the social...  Read More >>

He maintains that operant psychology has discovered (and continues to discover) reasonably well-confirmed causal...  Read More >>

The Vienna Circle Institute is devoted to the critical advancement of science and philosophy in the broad tradition...  Read More >>

Heinrich Hertz, as the con­ summate experimentalist of 19th century technique and as brilliant clarifying critic...  Read More >>

Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with the history of temporal logic as well...  Read More >>

The author describes and criticizes empirically and conceptually unified models of colour naming that relate basic...  Read More >>

New in this study is the leitmotif of relevance: is-ought inferences indeed exist, but they are all irrelevant...  Read More >>

Contains a selection of 19 papers on the history of Greek mathematics that were published during the 20th century...  Read More >>

"Includes contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view. This work represents a distinguished...  Read More >>

Although there is an abundance of highly specialized monographs, learned collections and general introductions to...  Read More >>

For both continental and analytic styles of philosophy, the thought of Martin Heidegger must be counted as one...  Read More >>

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

From the very beginning it was realised that quantum physics involves radically new interpretative and epistemological...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Air Resources Information Clearinghouse held in Washington,...  Read More >>

This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life...  Read More >>