Philosophy of science books

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World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988

World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: Science...

Author: W.R. Woodward ,  Robert S. Cohen
ISBN: 9780792312864
Format: Hardback
$789.36

The various efforts to develop a Marxist philosophy of science in the one­ time 'socialist' countries were casualties...  Read More >>

Beyond Reason: Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend

Beyond Reason: Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend...

Author: Gonzalo Munévar
ISBN: 9780792312727
Format: Hardback
$887.04

Some philosophers think that Paul Feyerabend is a clown, a great many others think that he is one of the most exciting...  Read More >>

Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy: An Anti-Realist View of Quantum Mechanics

Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy: An Anti-Realist...

Author: Jan Faye
ISBN: 9780792312949
Format: Hardback
$467.28

The bulk of the present book has not been published previously though Chapters II and IV are based in part on two...  Read More >>

Explanation in the Sciences

Explanation in the Sciences

Author: Émile Meyerson ,  Mary-Alice Sipfle
ISBN: 9780792311294
Format: Hardback
$894.96

Emile Meyerson's writings on the philosophy of science are a rich source of ideas and information concerning many...  Read More >>

Erkenntnis Orientated: A Centennial Volume for Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach

Erkenntnis Orientated: A Centennial Volume for Rudolf...

Author: W. Spohn
ISBN: 9780792314080
Format: Hardback
$591.36

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Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge

Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge...

Author: Robert N. Proctor
ISBN: 9780674931701
Format: Hardback
$176.95

A study of the politics of science, emphasizing the importance of the political origins and impact of scientific...  Read More >>

Einheit Der Wissenschaften: Internationales Kolloquium Der Akademie Der Wissenschaften Zu Berlin, Bonn 25-27. Juni 1990

Einheit Der Wissenschaften: Internationales Kolloquium...

Author: Akademie Der Wissenschaften Zu Berlin ,  Jürgen Mittelstraß
ISBN: 9783110129052
Format: Hardback
$265.89

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Einheit der Wissenschaften"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Time, Space and Philosophy

Time, Space and Philosophy

Author: Christopher Ray
ISBN: 9780415032216
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Ray examines the central questions that arise from the ideas of Einstein, Leibniz and Newton. Among the problems...  Read More >>

Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living

Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living...

Author: H.R. Maturana ,  F.J. Varela
ISBN: 9789027710161
Format: Paperback
$237.47

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Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution

Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the...

Author: Z. Bechler
ISBN: 9780792310549
Format: Hardback
$924.00

Three events, which happened all within the same week some ten years ago, set me on the track which the book describes....  Read More >>

Time: Past, Present, Future

Time: Past, Present, Future

Author: Zdzistaw Augustynek ,  Stanislaw Semczuk
ISBN: 9780792302704
Format: Hardback
$446.16

for, although Professor Mehlberg was the foremost Polish philosopher in the field of philosophy of time-in that...  Read More >>

Empiricism and Darwin’s Science

Empiricism and Darwin’s Science

Author: F. Wilson
ISBN: 9780792310198
Format: Hardback
$623.04

I would like to record my thanks to Paul Thompson for useful conver­ sations over the years, and also to several...  Read More >>

The Problem of Reductionism in Science: (Colloquium of the Swiss Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Zürich, May 18–19, 1990)

The Problem of Reductionism in Science: (Colloquium...

Author: E. Agazzi
ISBN: 9780792314066
Format: Hardback
$446.16

In fact, the difference is that between a philosophical doctrine (or, perhaps, simply a philosophical tenet or claim)...  Read More >>

The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey

The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey...

Author: Rolf Herken (Director, Director, Mental Images & Co., Berlin)
ISBN: 9780198537748
Format: Paperback
$85.95

Alan Turing's 1937 paper, ""On Computable Numbers"", was a landmark of the coming computer age. This volume of essays...  Read More >>

Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe

Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe...

Author: Evandro Agazzi ,  Alberto Cordero
ISBN: 9780792313229
Format: Hardback
$630.96

The Universe as a Scientific and Philosophical Problem.- The Geometric Structure of the Universe.- Superstring Unification...  Read More >>

Europe, America, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives

Europe, America, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives...

Author: P.T. Durbin
ISBN: 9780792312543
Format: Hardback
$586.08

As Europe moves toward 1992 and full economic unity, and as Eastern Europe tries to find its way in the new economic...  Read More >>

To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite

To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite...

Author: Eli Maor ,  Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691025117
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Examines the role of infinity in mathematics and geometry and its cultural impact on the arts and sciences. This...  Read More >>

Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle: Austrian Studies on Otto Neurath and the Vienna Circle

Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle: Austrian...

Author: Thomas E. Uebel
ISBN: 9780792312765
Format: Hardback
$623.04

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The Philosophy of Vacuum

The Philosophy of Vacuum

Author: Simon W Saunders ,  Harvey R Brown, Jr
ISBN: 9786610809837
Format: Electronic book text
$560.45

* Contains a hitherto untranslated paper by Einstein. The vacuum is fast emerging as the central structure of modern...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Science

The Philosophy of Science

Author: Richard Boyd ,  Philip Gasper
ISBN: 9780262521567
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Readings that chart the rise and decline of logical positivism and the emergence of a new consensus, emphasizing...  Read More >>

The Threat and the Glory

The Threat and the Glory

Author: P. B. Medawar ,  David Pyke
ISBN: 9780192861283
Format: Paperback
$22.95

Collection of the late Sir Peter Medawar's essays, covering subjects such as genetics, evolution, creativity, philosophy,...  Read More >>

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