Télécharger le livre :  Feyerabend in Dialogue
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This book offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend’s take on topics such as realism, empiricism, pluralism, materialism, and incommensurability. In addition to discussing certain debates in the philosophy of physics, it also considers the ways in which...

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Parution : 2024-11-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Theory, Evidence, Data: Themes from George E. Smith
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This book builds on the path-breaking work of George E. Smith and further explores the notions of evidence and confirmation in the exact sciences from two perspectives: conceptual and historical.  Contributions in this volume investigate the philosophical...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-11-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophers and Einstein's Relativity
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This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity. The essays explore the reception and interpretation of Einstein’s ideas by some of the most important philosophical schools of the time, such as logical positivism...

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Parution : 2023-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Objects, Structures, and Logics
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This edited collection casts light on central issues within contemporary philosophy of mathematics such as the realism/anti-realism dispute; the relationship between logic and metaphysics; and the question of whether mathematics is a science of objects or structures.The...

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Parution : 2022-03-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Quantum Raffles
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This book offers a thorough technical elaboration and philosophical defense of an objectivist informational interpretation of quantum mechanics according to which its novel content is located in its kinematical framework, that is, in how the theory describes systems...

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Parution : 2021-12-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics
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This book offers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an integrated HPS analysis helps us to have a better understanding of the history of genetics, and sheds light on some general issues in the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-08-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Uncertainty in Pharmacology
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This volume covers a wide range of topics concerning methodological, epistemological, and regulatory-ethical issues around pharmacology. The book focuses in particular on the diverse sources of uncertainty, the different kinds of uncertainty that there are, and the...

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Parution : 2020-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America
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This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the body is perceived;...

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Parution : 2020-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences
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The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz’s scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz.The essays deal with a vast array of topics on the exact sciences: Leibniz’s logic, mereology, the notion of...

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Parution : 2020-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science
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This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements – epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual. With contributions ranging from fields as...

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Parution : 2019-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Swinging and Rolling
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This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of...

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Parution : 2019-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Neurath Reconsidered
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This highly readable book is a collection of critical papers on Otto Neurath (1882-1945). It comprehensively re-examines Neurath’s scientific, philosophical and educational contributions from a range of standpoints including historical, sociological and problem-oriented...

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Parution : 2019-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth, Existence and Explanation
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This book contains more than 15 essays that explore issues in truth, existence, and explanation. It features cutting-edge research in the philosophy of mathematics and logic.Renowned philosophers, mathematicians, and younger scholars provide an insightful contribution...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
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This book is divided into two sections. The first section is concerned with the emergence and expansion of a form of mechanical knowledge defined by us as pre-classical mechanics. The definition purports to the period roughly between the 15th and the 17th century,...

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Parution : 2018-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist?
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This book begins with an observation: At the time when empiricism arose and slowly established itself, the word itself had not yet been coined. Hence the central question of this volume: What does it mean to conduct empirical science in early modern Europe? How can we...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Engineering, East and West
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This co-edited volume compares Chinese and Western experiences of engineering, technology, and development. In doing so, it builds a bridge between the East and West and advances a dialogue in the philosophy of engineering. Divided into three parts, the book starts with...

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Parution : 2018-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
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This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-12-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Encouraging Openness
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This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual activity, Agassi...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing
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Chapters “Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate” and “Turing and the History of Computer Music” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Time of Nature and the Nature of Time
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This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. Its aim is to provide some insights about the nature of time on the basis of the different uses of the concept of time in natural sciences. Presenting a dialogue between philosophy...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-30
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