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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains selected papers from symposia and contributed sessions presented at the third biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Lansing, Michigan, on October 27-29, 1972. We are grateful to Michigan State University, and especially to Professor Peter Asquith and...
Philosophy of Science
Volume 1, From Problem to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Originally published as Scientific Research, this pair of volumes constitutes a fundamental treatise on the strategy of science. Mario Bunge, one of the major figures of the century in the development of a scientific epistemology, describes and analyzes scientific philosophy, as well as discloses...
by Richard John Kosciejew
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Richard John Kosciejew explores the goals of any scientific enterprise and analyzes the strategies employed in reaching those goals in this well-researched book. The philosophy of science offers a perspective from which we can examine and potentially evaluate the endeavors of cognitive science. Philosophy...
Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science
Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The two volumes to which this is apreface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science. The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) under the auspices of the IUHPS,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional,...
by D. George Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
PROCESSES AND PERSPECTIVES deals with the evolution/creation issue, but in a different manner from the usual mainstream works. As a retired professional biologist and Christian, I defend Darwins basic concepts of natural selection and disagree with the creationists perspective on Darwin in general...
Eureka! (Icon Science)
The Birth of Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human thought.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time.
With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin,...
Half-Hours with Great Scientists
The Story of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1948
The present age is sometimes called the Scientific Age. This does not imply that every member of the community is an expert scientist—far from it. It does mean, however, that the labours of the scientists have given the age certain features which influence the life of every citizen to some degree....
The Tree of Knowledge
The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Whether considered a divine gift or a Promethean conquest, science has indisputably and indelibly marked the course of human history. A product of the intellectual elite, but always nourished by the many fruits of its applications, science appears today to be a perfect system, whose laws and discoveries...
by P. Zilsel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Here, for the first time, is a single volume in English that contains all the important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the emergence of modern science. It also contains one previously unpublished essay and an extended version of an essay published earlier. This...
Science at the Crossroads
A Rational Scrutiny of the Clock Paradox in Einstein’s Relativity
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Science at the Crossroads was published by Herbert Dingle in 1972 at the end of a gruelling controversy with the English scientific world about the clock paradox in Einstein’s special relativity. It is still a seminal text, which allows us to understand and evaluate, with Cartesian clarity, the...
Science and Polity in France
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his classic Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime, Charles Gillispie analyzed the cultural,...
Science and Technology in World History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early twenty-first century, James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn’s bestselling book argues that technology as "applied science" emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began...