Philosophy of Science Association Newsletter
Author | : Philosophy of Science Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Philosophy of Science Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Ladyman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-08-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134597908 |
Few can imagine a world without telephones or televisions; many depend on computers and the Internet as part of daily life. Without scientific theory, these developments would not have been possible. In this exceptionally clear and engaging introduction to philosophy of science, James Ladyman explores the philosophical questions that arise when we reflect on the nature of the scientific method and the knowledge it produces. He discusses whether fundamental philosophical questions about knowledge and reality might be answered by science, and considers in detail the debate between realists and antirealists about the extent of scientific knowledge. Along the way, central topics in philosophy of science, such as the demarcation of science from non-science, induction, confirmation and falsification, the relationship between theory and observation and relativism are all addressed. Important and complex current debates over underdetermination, inference to the best explaination and the implications of radical theory change are clarified and clearly explained for those new to the subject.
Author | : Helena Sheehan |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1786634260 |
A masterful survey of the history of Marxist philosophy of science Sheehan retraces the development of a Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that shaped it. Skilfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan shows how Marx and Engel’s ideas on the development and structure of natural science had a crucial impact on the work of early twentieth-century natural philosophers, historians of science, and natural scientists. With a new afterword by the author.
Author | : Donald M. Borchert |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780028646510 |
The first English-language reference of its kind, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy was hailed as 'a remarkable and unique work' (Saturday Review) that contained 'the international who's who of philosophy and cultural history' (Library Journal).
Author | : N. Joll |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230392652 |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students, philosophers and fans of The Hitchhiker's series.
Author | : Robert S. Cohen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 747 |
Release | : 1976-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789027706478 |
For this book, we have selected papers from symposia and contributed sessions at the fourth biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held at the University of Notre Dame on November 1-3, 1974. The meeting was lively and well-attended, and we regret that there was no way to record here the many stimulating discussions after the papers and during the informal hours. We also regret that we had in sufficient space for all the contributed papers. Even more, some of the symposia were not available: those on systems and decision theory (c. W. Churchman, P. Suppes, I. Levi), and on the Marxist philosophy of science (M. W. Wartofsky, R. S. Cohen, E. N. Hiebert). Unhappily several individual contributions to other symposia were likewise not available: I. Velikovsky in the session on his own work and the politics of science, D. Finkelstein in the session on quantum logic. Memorial minutes were read for Alan Ross Anderson (prepared by Nuel Belnap) and for Imre Lakatos (prepared by Paul Feyerabend). They initiate this volume of philosophy of science in the mid-seventies.
Author | : Maria Kronfeldner |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262038412 |
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is the use of such a concept? What are the epistemic and ontological commitments people make when they use the concept? In What's Left of Human Nature? Maria Kronfeldner offers a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against contemporary criticism. In particular, she takes on challenges related to social misuse of the concept that dehumanizes those regarded as lacking human nature (the dehumanization challenge); the conflict between Darwinian thinking and essentialist concepts of human nature (the Darwinian challenge); and the consensus that evolution, heredity, and ontogenetic development result from nurture and nature. After answering each of these challenges, Kronfeldner presents a revisionist account of human nature that minimizes dehumanization and does not fall back on outdated biological ideas. Her account is post-essentialist because it eliminates the concept of an essence of being human; pluralist in that it argues that there are different things in the world that correspond to three different post-essentialist concepts of human nature; and interactive because it understands nature and nurture as interacting at the developmental, epigenetic, and evolutionary levels. On the basis of this, she introduces a dialectical concept of an ever-changing and “looping” human nature. Finally, noting the essentially contested character of the concept and the ambiguity and redundancy of the terminology, she wonders if we should simply eliminate the term “human nature” altogether.
Author | : Robert Cecil Olby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This engrossing biography by one of molecular biology's foremost scholars reveals the remarkable evolution of Francis Crick's scientific career and insights into his personal life, from his early studies in biophysics, to the discovery of the structure of DNA, to his later work in neuroscience and the nature of consciousness.
Author | : Anya Plutynski |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-07-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0190904585 |
In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that arise in the context of cancer science and medicine. She begins with the following concerns: · How do scientists classify cancer? Do these classifications reflect nature's "joints"? · How do cancer scientists identify and classify early stage cancers? · What does it mean to say that cancer is a "genetic" disease? What role do genes play in "mechanisms for" cancer? · What are the most important environmental causes of cancer, and how do epidemiologists investigate these causes? · How exactly has our evolutionary history made us vulnerable to cancer? Explaining Cancer uses these questions as an entrée into a family of philosophical debates. It uses case studies of scientific practice to reframe philosophical debates about natural classification in science and medicine, the problem of drawing the line between disease and health, mechanistic reasoning in science, pragmatics and evidence, the roles of models and modeling in science, and the nature of scientific explanation.
Author | : Rebecca Goldstein |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0307378195 |
Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.