Eppur Si Muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 81
• This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a festschrift for Pe... Lees meer

The Art of the Intelligible

J Bell

• Paperback | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 63
• A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics. Attention is paid to their technical features, histo... Lees meer

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 51
• Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, ... Lees meer

Physical Theory and Its Interpretation

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 72
• JeffandImetwhenIwasagraduatestudentattheUniversityofMinnesotaandhewas a post doctoral fellow, first in the Chemistry Department, and then in the Cente... Lees meer

Perspectives on Quantum Reality

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 57
• But to admit things not visible to the gross creatures that we are is, in my opinion, to show a decent humility, and not just a lamentable addiction t... Lees meer

Causality, Method, and Modality

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 48
• Deservedly so, Jules Vuillemin is widely respected and greatly admired. It is not simply that he has produced a large body of outstanding work, in man... Lees meer

Perspectives on Kuhn

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 84
• This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn's work from where he left off at the time of his death. Contrary to other book... Lees meer

Eppur Si Muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer

• Paperback | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 81
• This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a festschrift for Pe... Lees meer

Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 73
• In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work o... Lees meer

Empiricism and Darwin's Science

F Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 47
• I would like to record my thanks to Paul Thompson for useful conver- sations over the years, and also to several generations of students who have help... Lees meer

Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the Tradition

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 80
• This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the '... Lees meer

The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics

John L Bell

• Paperback | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 82
• This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematica... Lees meer

Constructivism and Science

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 44
• The idea to produce the current volume was conceived by Jiirgen Mittelstrass and Robert E. Butts in 1978. Idealist philosophers are wrong about one th... Lees meer

The Art of the Intelligible

J Bell

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 63
• A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics. Attention is paid to their technical features, histo... Lees meer

A Logical Approach to Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 69
• Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001. Three days later, on ... Lees meer

Witches, Scientists, Philosophers: Essays and Lectures

Robert E Butts

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 65
• Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher and historian of science whose central concerns were the distinction between the rational and the irrati... Lees meer

Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 62
• Philosophy of mind has been one of the most active fields in philosophy for the past three decades. One of the most significant factors in the develop... Lees meer

Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 61
• The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of t... Lees meer

Experiencing Nature

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 58
• This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiogr... Lees meer

The Creation of Ideas in Physics

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 55
• The unusual ambition of this volume is to engage scientists, historians, and philosophers in a common quest to delineate the structure of the creative... Lees meer

Philosophy and Geometry

L Magnani

• Paperback | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 66
• Philosophers have studied geometry since ancient times. Geometrical knowledge has often played the role of a laboratory for the philosopher's conceptu... Lees meer

The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics

John L Bell

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 82
• This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematica... Lees meer

The Philosophy of Right and Left

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 46
• Incongruent counterparts are objects that are perfectly similar except for being mirror images of each other, such as left and right human hands. Imma... Lees meer

Physicalism in Mathematics

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 45
• This collection of papers has its origin in a conference held at the Uni- versity of Toronto in June of 1988. The theme of the conference was Physical... Lees meer