Philosophy of science books

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Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century

Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth...

Author: James McClellan
ISBN: 9780231059961
Format: Hardback
$190.95

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Protophysics of Time: Constructive Foundation and History of Time Measurement

Protophysics of Time: Constructive Foundation and History...

Author: P. Janich ,  R. Brown
ISBN: 9789027707246
Format: Hardback
$551.76

For protophysics, the fascinating and impressive constructive re-establish­ ment of the foundations of science by...  Read More >>

Explanation, Causation and Deduction

Explanation, Causation and Deduction

Author: Fred Wilson
ISBN: 9789027718563
Format: Hardback
$129.36

In recent years, however, this three-fold identity has been challenged: there are, it is argued, causal explanations...  Read More >>

Rationality in Science and Politics

Rationality in Science and Politics

Author: G. Andersson
ISBN: 9789027719539
Format: Paperback
$287.76

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Virtue and Medicine: Explorations in the Character of Medicine

Virtue and Medicine: Explorations in the Character of...

Author: E.E. Shelp
ISBN: 9789027718082
Format: Hardback
$551.76

Interest in theories of virtue and the place of virtues in the moral life con- tinues to grow. Nicolai Hartmann...  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: 9789027718099
Format: Hardback
$686.40

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

Three Treatises on the Nature of Science

Three Treatises on the Nature of Science

Author: Galen ,  R. Walzer
ISBN: 9780915145928
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Contents: Introduction, Bibliography On the Sects for Beginners An Outline of Empiricism On Medical Experience...  Read More >>

The Relativistic Deduction: Epistemological Implications of the Theory of Relativity With a Review by Albert Einstein and an Introduction by Mili? ?apek

The Relativistic Deduction: Epistemological Implications...

Author: Émile Meyerson ,  David A. Sipfle
ISBN: 9789027716996
Format: Hardback
$498.96

Meyerson captures our sympathy in all his writings: "" . If logic - and to Meyerson the epistemologist is logician...  Read More >>

Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science: Essays in Honour of Carl G. Hempel on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, January 8th 1985

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

Author: Wilhelm K. Essler ,  H. Putnam
ISBN: 9789027719126
Format: Hardback
$765.60

Hempel had come to Los Angeles (where Reichenbach taught) on a visit, and a small group consisting of Reichenbach...  Read More >>

Erkennen: Die Organisation und Verkörperung von Wirklichkeit: Ausgewählte Arbeiten zur biologischen Epistemologie

Erkennen: Die Organisation und Verkörperung von Wirklichkeit:...

Author: Humberto R. Maturana
ISBN: 9783528184650
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Das, was man für übertragbar hält, nämlich objektives Wissen, muß immer durch den Hörer geschaffen werden: Der Hörer...  Read More >>

Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911: Selected Essays

Frontiers of Physics: 1900–1911: Selected Essays

Author: MILLER ,  Miller, Karen
ISBN: 9780817632038
Format: Paperback
$165.00

I am grateful to the Harvard University Archives for permission to quote from these materials, and to Bridgman's...  Read More >>

Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology: Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis

Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology: Some...

Author: Kristin Shrader-Frechette
ISBN: 9789027718457
Format: Paperback
$224.40

As a philosopher of science seeking the middle path between uncritical acceptance and extremist rejection of the...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincaré

Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincaré

Author: R. Torretti
ISBN: 9789027718372
Format: Paperback
$514.80

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Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?

Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?

Author: M. Ruse
ISBN: 9789027717986
Format: Paperback
$211.07

In this book, drawing on both fact and theory, Wilson tried to present a com­ prehensive overview of the rapidly...  Read More >>

Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories

Time: Its Structure and Role in Physical Theories

Author: P.A. Kroes
ISBN: 9789027718945
Format: Hardback
$388.08

This book on the structure and role of time in physical theories addresses itself to scientists and philosophers...  Read More >>

Change and Progress in Modern Science: Papers related to and arising from the Fourth International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 1982

Change and Progress in Modern Science: Papers related...

Author: Joseph C. Pitt
ISBN: 9789027718983
Format: Hardback
$604.56

The papers presented here derive from the 4th International Confe:--ence on History and Philosophy of Science held...  Read More >>

Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?

Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?

Author: M. Ruse
ISBN: 9789027717979
Format: Hardback
$390.72

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Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology: Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis

Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology: Some...

Author: Kristin Shrader-Frechette
ISBN: 9789027718068
Format: Hardback
$517.44

As a philosopher of science seeking the middle path between uncritical acceptance and extremist rejection of the...  Read More >>

Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World

Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the...

Author: Wesley C. Salmon
ISBN: 9780691101705
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Proposes philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed that involves a treatment of causality that accords...  Read More >>

Insight Outlook

Insight Outlook

Author: Albert Hoffman
ISBN: 9780893341916
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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The Concept of Physical Law

The Concept of Physical Law

Author: Norman Swartz ,  Clifford Swartz, Mimi
ISBN: 9780521277297
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Professor Swartz analyzes the arguments and intuitions of Necessitarian and Regularity theories of physical laws....  Read More >>

The Limits of Scientific Reasoning

The Limits of Scientific Reasoning

Author: David Faust ,  Paul E. Meehl
ISBN: 9780816613595
Format: Paperback
$118.42

The Limits of Scientific Reasoning was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology...  Read More >>

Foundations: Logic, Language, and Mathematics

Foundations: Logic, Language, and Mathematics

Author: Hugues Leblanc ,  Elliott Mendelson
ISBN: 9789027718419
Format: Hardback
$567.60

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