Product Description: An in-depth look at philosophical approaches to science. Includes sections such as "Scientific discoveries, and their reverberation in Leibniz's philosophy" and "The significance of the contrast between Noumena and Phenomena."

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

This new edition brings up to date this accessible study of the philosophy of science. Since the time of Plato and Aristotle, scientists and philosophers have raised questions about the proper evaluation of scientific interpretations. A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science is an exposition of differing viewpoints on issues such as the distinction between scientific inquiry and other types of interpretation, the relationship between theories and observation reports; the evaluation of competing theories; and the nature of progress in science. The author makes accessible the philosophy of science to readers who may not have extensive knowledge of formal logic or the history of the several sciences. The third edition incorporates an extended discussion of recent developments. Historicist critics of Logical Empiricism have established that evaluative standards and cognitive aims have changed within the history of science. This edition examines these changes, the recent controversies over scientific realism, casual theories of explanation, Bayesian theories of confirmation, and the search for a non-prescriptive philosophy of science. philosophers have raised questions about the proper evaluation of scientific interpretations. This is a lucid and accessible introduction to the philosophy of science, ideal for readers who may not have the extensive knowledge of formal logic or the history of the several sciences. This new edition includes an extended discussion of such recent developments and controversies as new approaches to evaluative standards and cognitive aims, scientific realism, causal theories of explanation, Bayesian theories of confirmation, and the search for a non-prescriptive philosophy of science.

Examines the impact of scientific and technological developments on civilization and argues that man is out of harmony with nature as a result of science

Product Description: Written before the collapse of the research program of the logical positivists and the resurgent interest in the development of scientific thought as exemplified in analyses of actual historical transitions, this book is unique in undertaking to elucidate the cognitive developments and their causes underlying the history of science...read more

Product Description: The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science began 2S years ago as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration of friends and colleagues in philosophy, logic, the natural sciences and the social sciences, psychology, religious studies, arts and literature, and often the celebrated man-in-the­ street...read more

Product Description: This study of Henry of Ghent focuses "on a single aspect of Henry's philosophy...Henry's notion of truth." (Introduction, p. 6)

Product Description: Adopts the notion of an 'arch of knowledge' representing the double pathway of induction and deduction: from empirical observations to theoretical principles to predictions that may be tested experimentally.

Product Description: Prefatory Explanation It must be remarked at once that I am 'editor' of this volume only in that I had the honor of presiding at the symposium on Spinoza and the Sciences at which a number of these papers were presented (exceptions are those by Hans Jonas, Richard Popkin, Joe VanZandt and our four European contributors), in that I have given some editorial advice on details of some of the papers, including translations, and finally, in that my name appears on the cover...read more

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The author re-examines Galileo's trial for heresy in 1633 on the basis of a previously unknown Vatican document that condemned him for his advocacy of atomism, which was perceived as a threat to Catholic Eucharistic doctrine

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Wesley Salmon provides an introduction to scientific explanation by recounting and analyzing the major developments that have occurred in the field since the publication in 1948 of Carl G. Hempel's and Paul Oppenheim's "Studies in the Logic of Explanation". He begins by considering the rise of the "received view" including accounts of statistical explanation in addition to the deductive-nomological model of the 1948 essay. He analyzes the controversies involving the covering law conception of scientific explanation, the nature of inductive or statisticl explanation, the role of causality in explanation, differing basic conceptions of explanation and the pragmatics of explanation - demonstrating how the "received view" has been seriously undermined, and has given way to its successors. After delineating these developments and transformations, the volume concludes with a review of current work central to this fundamental area in the philosophy of science.

Product Description: 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, these essays will deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. The unifying theme is the nature of the philosophical problems surrounding the postulation of unobservable entities such as light waves, molecules, and electrons...read more

Product Description: The Japanese first encountered Western scientific technology around 1543, when the Portuguese drifted ashore and left them firearms. For the next few centuries Japan's policy of national isolation severely limited contact with the West...read more

Product Description: Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) is a major influence in twentieth-century thought, a source for many of the ideas of the Vienna circle, Karl Popper, Imre Lakatos, and Thomas S. Kuhn. Yet Duhem's arguments have often been perceived as enigmatic, quirky, muddled, or even disingenuous, because his influence has been greatest outside his native France many of his works have never been translated, and Duhem's readers have mostly been ignorant of the peculiar French cultural and political background during Duhem's lifetime...read more

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