Understanding Quantum Raffles

Michael Janas, Michael E Cuffaro, Michel Janssen

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 340
• This book offers a thorough technical elaboration and philosophical defense of an objectivist informational interpretation of quantum mechanics accord... Lees meer

Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 222
• constitutive of reference in laboratory sciences as cultural sign systems and their manipulation and superposition, collectively shared classification... Lees meer

Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 120
• This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative inf... Lees meer

Philosophy and Conceptual History of Science in Taiwan

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 141
• Scholarly studies of mathematics and the sciences, carried out by philos- ophers and historians in Taiwan in recent years, have two main goals: first,... Lees meer

The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology

Igor Hanzel

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 208
• The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms generating them,... Lees meer

Feyerabend in Dialogue

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 346
• This book offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, pluralism, materialism, and incommensur... Lees meer

Feyerabend and Scientific Values

R P Farrell

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 235
• This book deals with the entrenched misunderstandings of Feyerabend's philosophy, brings together the positive elements to be found in Feyerabend's wo... Lees meer

Objectivity, Realism, and Proof

• Paperback | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 318
• This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated to how semantic, epistemologic... Lees meer

Science and Culture

J Agassi

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 231
• This work addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. It... Lees meer

Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 332
• This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements - epistemological, philosop... Lees meer

Science and Empires

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 136
• SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquiu... Lees meer

Leibniz's Metaphysics of Time and Space

Michael Futch

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 258
• This is the first comprehensive examination of Leibniz's thought on time and space. The book fills a gap in existing scholarship by examining his view... Lees meer

Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 121
• 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 scien... Lees meer

Mexican Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 172
• For a North American seeking to know the Mexican mind, and especially the sciences today and in their recent development, a great light of genius is t... Lees meer

Science and Modernity

S Lelas

• Paperback | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 214
• Science is a multifaceted, natural and historical phenomenon. It consists of five elements, that is, it happens in five distinct media: biological, li... Lees meer

Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science

Dimitri Ginev, Robert S. Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 192
• Azarya Polikarov was born in Sofia on October 9, 1921. Through the many stages of politics, economy, and culture in Bulgaria, he maintained his ration... Lees meer

The New Aspects of Time

M Capek

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 125
• At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his friendly critics, his fellow-scientist and fellow-philosophers, have the works of Milic Capek... Lees meer

Encouraging Openness

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 325
• This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential philosopher, an exciting ... Lees meer

Mathematics as a Tool

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 327
• This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the o... Lees meer

Neurath Reconsidered

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 336
• This highly readable book is a collection of critical papers on Otto Neurath (1882-1945). It comprehensively re-examines Neurath's scientific, philoso... Lees meer

Beyond Reason

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 132
• Some philosophers think that Paul Feyerabend is a clown, a great many others think that he is one of the most exciting philosophers of science of this... Lees meer

Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 220
• This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newton... Lees meer

Between History and Method

S Amsterdamski

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 145
• In this book I have tried to develop further the ideas expressed in my previous work, Between Experience and Metaphysics, which was published in the s... Lees meer

Here the People Rule

Edward Banfield

• Paperback | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
• Most of the essays in this volume have appeared in scholarly journals or in books edited by others. A few are published here for the first time. None ... Lees meer