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Marcel Herbst The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume.The book... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-10-02 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Nikolay Milkov , Volker Peckhaus The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-02-26 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Donato Bergandi The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-01-06 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Joseph Agassi The Very Idea of Modern Science This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-12-14 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sophie Roux The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new »... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-09-25 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Mario Bunge Evaluating Philosophies The first part deals with philosophies that have had a significant input, positive or negative, on the search for truth; it suggests that scientific and technological are either stimulated or smothered by a philosophical matrix; and it outlines two ontological... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-07-04 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hasok Chang Is Water H2O? This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O. Three main phases of development are... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-05-23 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 336,54 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hans Radder The Material Realization of Science This book develops a conception of science as a multi-dimensional practice, which includes experimental action and production, conceptual-theoretical interpretation, and formal-mathematical work. On this basis, it addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-05-03 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Thomas Nickles , Léna Soler , Emiliano Trizio , William Wimsatt , William Wimsatt Characterizing the Robustness of Science Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-03-22 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ori Belkind Physical Systems Based on the concept of a physical system, this book offers a new philosophical interpretation of classical mechanics and the Special Theory of Relativity. According to Belkind’s view the role of physical theory is to describe the motions of the parts of a physical... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-02-02 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Murray Murphey The Development of Quine's Philosophy This book covers W. V. Quine's philosophic career from his early radical empiricism and behaviorism through his development of a series of skeptical doctrines regarding meaning, reference, and science. It shows what problems he tried to solve and what his solutions... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-12-22 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Edward Mackinnon Interpreting Physics This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-11-23 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Kathryn S. Plaisance , Thomas A.C. Reydon Philosophy of Behavioral Biology This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-10-05 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Seymour Mauskopf , Tad Schmaltz Integrating History and Philosophy of Science Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-09-06 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Makoto Katsumori Niels Bohr's Complementarity This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr’s philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically calls “spectators” and “actors.” It seeks to spell out the structural... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-09-01 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Paul Needham Commentary on the Principles of Thermodynamics by Pierre Duhem Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) held the chair of theoretical physics at Bordeaux from 1894 to his death. He established a reputation in both the history and philosophy of science as well as in science itself (physics and physical chemistry). Much of his work in the first two... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-05-30 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Michael Elazar Honoré Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-05-20 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Décio Krause , Antonio Videira Brazilian Studies in Philosophy and History of Science This volume, The Brazilian Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, is the first attempt to present to a general audience, works from Brazil on this subject. The included papers are original, covering a remarkable number of relevant topics of philosophy of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-01-27 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Alisa Bokulich , Peter Bokulich Scientific Structuralism Recently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science. Taking their lead from scientific structuralists such as Henri Poincaré, Ernst Cassirer, and Bertrand Russell, some contemporary philosophers and scientists have argued that the most... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-01-21 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Feza Günergun , Dhruv Raina Science between Europe and Asia This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-12-09 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Format(s) : ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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