Popper's Critical Rationalism

Darrell Rowbottom

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science | nr. 7
• Popper's Critical Rationalism presents Popper's views on science, knowledge, and inquiry, and examines the significance and tenability of these in lig... Lees meer

Essence in the Age of Evolution

Christopher J Austin

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and expl... Lees meer

Conservative Reductionism

Michael Esfeld, Christian Sachse

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• All properties that exist in the world are functional properties in the sense of causal properties. The authors base a conservative ontological reduct... Lees meer

Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical catego... Lees meer

Evidence Contestation

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the proc... Lees meer

The Instrument of Science

Darrell P Rowbottom

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has falle... Lees meer

Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science

David J Stump

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current deb... Lees meer

Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science | nr. 3
• Nancy Cartwright is one of the most distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. Despite the profound impact of her work, there... Lees meer

Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science

Stefano Gattei

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper's philosophy, an approach which applies his ow... Lees meer

Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge

James Robert Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially... Lees meer

Models, Simulations, and Representations

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science | nr. 9
• Although scientific models and simulations differ in numerous ways, they are similar in so far as they are posing essentially philosophical problems a... Lees meer

Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge

James Robert Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science | nr. 10
• This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially... Lees meer

Emergence in Science and Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions ... Lees meer

Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical catego... Lees meer

Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science

Stefano (University of Pisa, Italy) Gattei

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Rectifying misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper's philosophy, Gattei reconstructs the logic of Popper's develo... Lees meer

Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science | nr. 11
• From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascina... Lees meer

Emergence in Science and Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science | nr. 6
• The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions ... Lees meer

Conjunctive Explanations

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are... Lees meer

Conservative Reductionism

Michael Esfeld, Christian Sachse

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science | nr. 8
• Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism. It... Lees meer

Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Nancy Cartwright is one of the most distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. Despite the profound impact of her work, there... Lees meer

Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• The year 2012 marks the 50 th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Up until recently, the book... Lees meer

The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the beau... Lees meer

Fictions in Science

• Hardcover | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides a realistic description of the world. The essays ... Lees meer

Conceptual Systems

Harold I Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• New concepts are constantly being introduced into our thinking. Conceptual Systems explores how these new concepts are entered into our systems along ... Lees meer