Cooke and Wheatstone

Geoffrey Hubbard

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was founded, and the curious route by which it came to England. It dis... Lees meer

Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

P B Medawar

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning. Lees meer

Frames of Meaning

HM Collins, TJ Pinch

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Taking a radical interpretation of the Kuhnian concept of paradigm incommensurability, the authors begin by discussing the difficulties of gaining acc... Lees meer

The Astronomical Revolution

Alexandre Koyre

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered man’s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centurie... Lees meer

Cooke and Wheatstone

Geoffrey Hubbard

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. Th... Lees meer

The Scientific Revolution

Peter Harman

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1983.This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in ... Lees meer

Evidence and Explanation in Social Science

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1975. The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an abstract level by so... Lees meer

Philosophy of Science and Sociology

Edmund Mokrzycki

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1983. This book concentrates on the impact of philosophy of science on sociology and other disciplines. It argues that the imp... Lees meer

The Common Scientist of the Seventeenth Century

K Theodore Hoppen

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Based on a wide range of manuscript and other sources, this book illuminates, by means of an examination of a particular group of natural philosophers... Lees meer

Science and ESP

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1967. Representing the viewpoints of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, physicists, psychoanalysts, parapsychologis... Lees meer

Philosophy and Scientific Realism

J J C Smart

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1963. In an introductory chapter the author argues that philosophy ought to be more than the art of clarifying thought and tha... Lees meer

Science Industry and Society

Stephen And Steven Cotgrove & Box

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1970. Two major changes have characterised science in the twentieth century. Firstly, there has been its rapid growth. Secondl... Lees meer

The Royal Society: Concept and Creation

Margery Purver

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• This volume investigates its underlying purpose and creation, at the same time uncovering the real nature of its debt to Francis Bacon and its role in... Lees meer

British Scientists of the Twentieth Century

J G Crowther

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Following on from British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, this volume covers six eminent British scientists whose work and personality have not ... Lees meer

Evidence and Meaning

Robert J Fogelin

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of warrant statements - statements which indicated something about the grounds on behalf of some ... Lees meer

Objectivity, Science and Society

Paul A Komesaroff

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1986. This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts... Lees meer

Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science

Paolo Rossi

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and was ... Lees meer

Experience and Theory

Stephan Korner

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. Lees meer

Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief

David Lack

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1957. This book is concerned with the conflict between "Darwinism" as the Victorians called it, and Christianity, a conflict h... Lees meer

Empiricism, Explanation and Rationality

Len & Roger Doyal & Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1986. All students of social science must confront a number of important philosophical issues. This introduction to the philos... Lees meer

Evidence and Explanation in Social Science

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an abstract level by social scientists, and their fac... Lees meer

Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

P B Medawar

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternativ... Lees meer

Glimpsing Reality

Paul & F David Buckley & Peat

• Hardcover | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought expl... Lees meer

Method in the Physical Sciences

G Schlesinger

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Originally published in 1963. Can one discern certain regularities in the manoeuvrings and techniques employed by scientists and can these be formulat... Lees meer