Philosophy of Science

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• Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories, and concepts used by scientists. It mainly developed as a field in its own right during the twent... Lees meer

The Reign of Relativity

Thomas Ryckman

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• Universally recognized as bringing about a revolutionary transformation of the notions of space, time, and motion in physics, Einstein's theory of gra... Lees meer

Chance in the World

Carl Hoefer

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• Probability has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians for hundreds of years. Although the mathematics of probability is, for most ap... Lees meer

The Nature of Physical Computation

Oron Shagrir

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• This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and... Lees meer

The Devil in the Details

Robert W Batterman

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• Robert Batterman examines a form of scientific reasoning called asymptotic reasoning, arguing that it has important consequences for our understanding... Lees meer

Understanding Scientific Understanding

Henk W de Regt

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• It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is ... Lees meer

Inventing Temperature

Hasok Chang

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• What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them t... Lees meer

Science and Partial Truth

Newton C a Costa, Steven French, Newton C a Da Costa

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• In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science. One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towar... Lees meer

Understanding Scientific Understanding

Henk de Regt

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
• It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is ... Lees meer

The Devil in the Details

Robert W Batterman

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
• Robert Batterman examines a form of scientific reasoning called asymptotic reasoning, arguing that it has important consequences for our understanding... Lees meer

Scientific Ontology

Anjan Chakravartty

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• Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philosop... Lees meer

Mathematics and Scientific Representation

Christopher Pincock

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• Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant i... Lees meer

Science, Truth, and Democracy

Philip Kitcher

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• Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the rol... Lees meer

The Book of Evidence

Peter Achinstein

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• What is required for something to be evidence for a hypothesis? In this fascinating, elegantly written work, distinguished philosopher of science Pete... Lees meer

Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality

George E Smith, Raghav Seth

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• Between 1905 and 1913, French physicist Jean Perrin's experiments on Brownian motion ostensibly put a definitive end to the long debate regarding the ... Lees meer

The Ant Trap

Brian Epstein

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• We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - t... Lees meer

Systematicity

Paul Hoyningen-Huene

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• In Systematicity, Paul Hoyningen-Huene answers the question "What is science?" by proposing that scientific knowledge is primarily distinguished from ... Lees meer

Because Without Cause

Marc Lange

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• Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs... Lees meer

The Reign of Relativity

Thomas Ryckman

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• Universally recognized as bringing about a revolutionary transformation of the notions of space, time, and motion in physics, Einstein's theory of gra... Lees meer

Making Things Happen

James Woodward

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• In Making Things Happen , James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from ... Lees meer

The Ant Trap

Brian Epstein

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• We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - t... Lees meer

Science, Truth, and Democracy

Philip Kitcher

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
• Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the rol... Lees meer

Inventing Temperature

Hasok Chang

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• What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them t... Lees meer

Causation with a Human Face

James Woodward

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• The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive wo... Lees meer