Emergent Evolution

David Blitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Episteme | nr. 19
• Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution... Lees meer

Mathematics in Society and History

S Restivo

• Paperback | Engels | Episteme | nr. 20
• This is the first book by a sociologist devoted exclusively to a general sociology of mathematics. The author provides examples of different ways of t... Lees meer

Satisfying Reason

N Rescher

• Hardcover | Engels | Episteme | nr. 21
• Leibniz said with a mixture of admiration and inspiration that the Duchess Sophie of Hannover always wanted to know the reason why behind the reason w... Lees meer

Philosophy of Mathematics Today

• Hardcover | Engels | Episteme | nr. 22
• Mathematics is often considered as a body of knowledge that is essen- tially independent of linguistic formulations, in the sense that, once the conte... Lees meer

Holism and Reductionism in Biology and Ecology

Rick C Looijen

• Hardcover | Engels | Episteme | nr. 23
• Holism and reductionism are traditionally seen as incompatible views or approaches to nature. Here Looijen argues that they should rather be seen as m... Lees meer

Diagnosis: Philosophical and Medical Perspectives

N Laor, J Agassi

• Hardcover | Engels | Episteme | nr. 15
• 1. GENERAL The term "diagnostics" refers to the general theory of diagnosis, not to the study of specific diagnoses but to their general framework. It... Lees meer

On Truth

Frank Plumpton Ramsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Episteme | nr. 16
• The present publication forms part of a projected book that F. P. Ramsey drafted but never completed. It survived among his papers and ultimately came... Lees meer

The Problem of Reductionism in Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Episteme | nr. 18
• The topic to which this book is devoted is reductionism, and not reduction. The difference in the adoption of these two denominations is not, contrary... Lees meer

Basic Questions on Truth

P Weingartner

• Hardcover | Engels | Episteme | nr. 24
• The task of the book is not to give a survey of the main theories on truth found in the literature. There are several books available which do this: T... Lees meer