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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feyerabend and Scientific Values

R P Farrell

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 235
• Every philosopher of science, and every student of the philosophy of science, has heard of Paul Feyerabend: the iconoclast who supposedly asserted tha... Lees meer

Science and Culture

J Agassi

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 231
• In Science and Culture , Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and fro... 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

Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 332
• Opens up an as yet unexplored epistemological topic Proposes an innovative approach to sources Is the first to present a systematic treatment of funda... 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

Causation, Coherence, and Concepts

W Spohn

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 256
• This book collects 15 of the most important essays on theoretical philosophy by Wolfgang Spohn. Born 1950, he is one of the most distinguished analyti... 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

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

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

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

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

Neurath Reconsidered

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 336
• Introduces new perspectives on Neurath's life and worksCollates the work of leading experts on Neurath and logical empiricism Uses archive materials t... 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

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

Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 324
• Chapters "Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate" and "Turing and the History of Computer Music" are available open access under a Creative... Lees meer

Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant

• Hardcover | Engels | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | nr. 220
• It is a truism that philosophy and the sciences were closely linked in the age of Leibniz, Newton, and Kant; but a more precise determination of the s... Lees meer