Philosophy of science books

The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of...  Read More >>

""Is quantum logic really logic?"" The most radical aspect of quantum reasoning is reflected in unsharp quantum...  Read More >>

Presents a fresh and comprehensive picture of David Hilbert's intense, original, and influential involvement with...  Read More >>

Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace...  Read More >>

Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments...  Read More >>

This book has been a long time in the making. Other issues have taken me away from it from time to extended time....  Read More >>

The preference bestowed on certain constructions over others results from the slighter recalcitrance in imagining...  Read More >>

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Although Descartes' natural philosophy marked an advance in the development of modern science, many critics over...  Read More >>

Bainbridge In the early decades of the 21st century, concentrated efforts can unify science based on the unity of...  Read More >>

In the book If Tropes, the author attempts to approach and then deal with some of the most basic problems for a...  Read More >>

The Scope of the Project The concept of holism is at the centre of far-reaching changes in various areas of philosophy...  Read More >>

This text gives a detailed record of Ludwig Boltzmann's life and philosophical thoughts during his final years,...  Read More >>

rules of language have no significance in language production and understanding, being descriptions of linguistic...  Read More >>

In 1907 Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer defended his doctoral dissertation on the foundations of mathematics and with...  Read More >>

We- as agents (persons, selves, subjects) - make our actions happen. Who -~ or what - is an agent ? And how - in...  Read More >>

Recursive Functions and Metamathematics deals with problems of the completeness and decidability of theories, using...  Read More >>

Ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic, but Cartesian,...  Read More >>

This generalization of Hilbert's original programme has fueled modern proof theory which is a rich part of mathematical...  Read More >>

In this volume specialists in mathematics, physics, and linguistics present the first comprehensive analysis of...  Read More >>

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about...  Read More >>

Audience: The volume will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of theoretical and mathematical...  Read More >>

A collection of papers presented at the conference on Probability Theory - Philosophy, Recent History and Relations...  Read More >>

In a typical undergraduate course using vector analysis, the students finally end up with Maxwell's equations, when...  Read More >>

The main intention of this book is to bring together contributions from biology, cognitive science, and the humanities...  Read More >>