Product Description: In Scientific Controversies, Dominque Raynaud shows how organized debates in the sciences help us establish or verify our knowledge of the world. If debates focus on form, scientific controversies are akin to public debates that can be understood within the framework of theories of conflict...read more

Product Description: 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 doctrines believed to have nurtured research in modern times: systemism (not to be mistaken for holism) and materialism (as an extension of physicalism)...read more

Product Description: Chasing Reality deals with the controversies over the reality of the external world. Distinguished philosopher Mario Bunge offers an extended defence of realism, a critique of various forms of contemporary anti-realism, and a sketch of his own version of realism, namely hylorealism...read more

Product Description: Two problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In Emergence and Convergence, he works to address these problems, as well as that of systems and their emergent properties, as exemplified by the synthesis of molecules, the creation of ideas, and social inventions...read more

Product Description: This book deals with some of the current issues in the philosophy, methodology and foundations of physics. Some such problems are: - Do mathematical formalisms interpret themselves or is it necessary to adjoin them interpretation assumptions, and if so how are these as­ sumptions to be framed? - What are physical theories about: physical systems or laboratory operations or both or neither? - How are the basic concepts of a theory to be introduced: by ref­ erence to measurements or by explicit definition or axiomatically? - What is the use ofaxiomatics in physics? - How are the various physical theories inter-related: like Chinese boxes or in more complex ways? - What is the role of analogy in the construction and in the inter­ pretation of physical theories? In particular, are classical analogues like those of particle and wave indispensable in quantum theories? - What is the role of the apparatus in quantum phenomena and what is the place of measurement theory in quantum mechanics? - How does a theory face experiment: single-handed or with the help of further theories? These and several other questions of the kind are met with by the research physicist, the physics teacher and the physics student in their everyday work...read more

Product Description: This book is about some topical philosophical and methodological prob­ lems that arise in the study of behavior and mind, as well as in the treatment of behavioral and mental disorders. It deals with such questions as 'What is behavior a manifestation of?', 'What is mind, and how is it related to matter?', 'Which are the positive legacies, if any, of the major psychological schools?', 'How can behavior and mind best be studied?', and 'Which are the most effective ways of modifying behavioral and mental processes?' These questions and their kin cannot be avoided in the long run because they fuel the daily search for better hypotheses, experimental designs, techniques, and treatments...read more

Product Description: In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts ist die Philosophie der Biologie aus dem Schatten der physikorientierten Wissenschaftsphilosophie herausgetreten und hat sich als respektabler und blühender Zweig der Wissenschaftsphilosophie etabliert...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this Introduction is to sketch our approach to the study of value, morality and action, and to show the place we assign it in the systemof human knowledge. 1. VALUE, MORALITY AND ACTION: FACT, THEORY, AND METATHEORY We take it that all animals evaluate some things and some processes, and that some of them learn the social behavior patterns we call 'moral principles', and even act according to them at least some of the time...read more

Product Description: This is not an introduction to physics but an analysis of its founda­ tions. Indeed, the aims of this book are: (1) to analyze the form and content of some of the key ideas of physics; (2) to formulate several basic physical theories in an explicit and orderly (i...read more

Product Description: This volume collects the lectures on the foundations of physics given by eleven scientists at the University of Delaware. It is neither an anthology of disconnected items nor a smoothly running textbook but rather a progress report on a neglected yet vital area of basic physical research, namely foundations research...read more

Product Description: The aims of this Introduction are to characterize the philosophy of science and technology, henceforth PS & T, to locate it on the map ofiearning, and to propose criteria for evaluating work in this field. 1. THE CHASM BETWEEN S & T AND THE HUMANITIES It has become commonplace to note that contemporary culture is split into two unrelated fields: science and the rest, to deplore this split - and to do is some truth in the two cultures thesis, and even nothing about it...read more

Product Description: Este libro trata de transformar el punto de vista segun el cual la mente es un conjunto de actividades del cerebro, y convertirlo en un sistema teorico, que viene a ser compatible con los mas modernos resultados obtenidos tanto por los neurofisiologos como por los psicologos...read more

Product Description: Los politólogos describen y explican la política; los filósofos la examinan de manera crítica y sugieren mejoramientos y, en ocasiones, rasgos sociales radicalmente diferentes. En otras palabras, los filósofos políticos proponen escenarios y sueños allí donde los científicos sociales ofrecen instantáneas de organizaciones políticas existentes...read more

Product Description: Despues de mas de veinte anos de espera, la obra magna de Mario Bunge llega a los lectores de habla espanola. El Tratado de Filosofia en 8 tomos (1973-1989) es uno de los proyectos mas ambiciosos de la filosofia moderna. Su objetivo es construir un sistema filosofico de lo que el autor considera el nucleo de la filosofia contemporanea (la semantica, la ontologia, la gnoseologia y la etica), con especial atencion a los problemas planteados por el conocimiento cientifico y tecnico...read more

Product Description: The causal problem has become topical once again. While we are no longer causalists or believers in the universal truth of the causal principle we continue to think of causes and effects, as well as of causal and noncausal relations among them...read more

Product Description: Esta es una coleccion de articulos sobre problemas sociales y teoricos desde un punto de vista filosofico. El punto de vista del autor no es estrecho ni doctrinario, ya que Bunge considera que una filosofia sin ontologia (o metafisica) es invertebrada, acefala sin teoria del conocimiento, paralitica sin etica, y muerta si permanece encerrada en una escuela...read more

Product Description: Despues de mas de veinte anos de espera, la obra magna de Mario Bunge llega a los lectores de habla espanola. El Tratado de Filosofia en 8 tomos (1973-1989) es uno de los proyectos mas ambiciosos de la filosofia moderna. Su objetivo es construir un sistema filosofico de lo que el autor considera el nucleo de la filosofia contemporanea (la semantica, la ontologia, la gnoseologia y la etica), con especial atencion a los problemas planteados por el conocimiento cientifico y tecnico...read more