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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Mathematics as a Tool Martin Carrier , Johannes Lenhard This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus for rendering the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-04-04 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A Pragmatist Orientation for the Social Sciences in Climate Policy Martin Kowarsch While economic and other social science expertise is indispensable for successful public policy-making regarding global climate change, social scientists face trade-offs between the scientific credibility, policy-relevance, and legitimacy of their policy advice. From a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-09-01 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Objectivity, Realism, and Proof Francesca Boccuni , Andrea Sereni This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated to how semantic, epistemological, ontological and logical issues interact in the attempt to give a satisfactory picture of mathematical... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-07-05 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 126,59 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies Tilman Sauer , Raphael Scholl This volume collects reflections on the role of philosophy in case studies in the history of science. Case studies have played a prominent role in recent history and philosophy of science. They have been used to illustrate, question, explore, or explicate philosophical... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-05-24 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 105,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Aristotelian Mechanics Joyce Van Leeuwen This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian Mechanics. It does so to enable readers to appreciate the value of the treatise based on solid knowledge of the principles of the text. In addition, the book’s critical examination helps clear... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-03-17 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Meta-Philosophical Reflection on Feminist Philosophies of Science Maria Cristina Amoretti , Nicla Vassallo This volume offers a meta-philosophical reflection on feminist philosophies of science. It emphasizes and discusses both the connections and differences between "traditional" philosophies of science and feminist philosophies of science. The collection systematically... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-21 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Cosmological and Psychological Time Yuval Dolev , Michael Roubach This book examines the many faces of philosophy of time, including the metaphysical aspects, natural science issues, and the consciousness of time. It brings together the different methodologies of investigating the philosophy of time. It does so to counter the growing... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-12-16 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics Wenceslao J. Gonzalez This book focuses on a key issue today: the role of values in technology, with special emphasis on ethical values.This topic involves the analysis of internal values in technology (as they affect objectives, processes, and outcomes) and the study of external values in... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-10-08 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Electric Theories of J. Clerk Maxwell Alan Aversa , Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem In this volume Pierre Duhem first gives an overview of 19th century electricity and magnetism. Next, he applies his keen historical, philosophical, and physical intuition to critiquing Maxwell’s theories, especially his electromagnetic theory of light and the ad hoc... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-06-01 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science Ilie P?Rvu , Gabriel Sandu , Iulian D. Toader This book presents a collection of studies by Romanian philosophers, addressing foundational issues currently debated in contemporary philosophy of science. It offers a historical survey of the tradition of scientific philosophy in Romania. It examines some problems in... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-05-29 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Relocating the History of Science Theodore Arabatzis , Jürgen Renn , Ana Simões This volume is put together in honor of a distinguished historian of science, Kostas Gavroglu, whose work has won international acclaim, and has been pivotal in establishing the discipline of history of science in Greece, its consolidation in other countries of the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-05-19 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On Alisa Bokulich , William J. Devlin In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-05-18 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Maria Paula Diogo , Kostas Gavroglu , Ana Simões This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-04-20 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 116,04 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Objectivity in Science Flavia Padovani , Alan Richardson , Jonathan Y. Tsou This highly multidisciplinary collection discusses an increasingly important topic among scholars in science and technology studies: objectivity in science. It features eleven essays on scientific objectivity from a variety of perspectives, including philosophy of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-03-23 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 105,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies From Logic to Practice Gabriele Lolli , Marco Panza , Giorgio Venturi This book brings together young researchers from a variety of fields within mathematics, philosophy and logic. It discusses questions that arise in their work, as well as themes and reactions that appear to be similar in different contexts. The book shows that a fairly... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-11-28 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Philosophy of Chemistry Lee Mcintyre , Eric Scerri This volume follows the successful book, which has helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, science educators as well as chemists, physicists and biologists. The introduction summarizes the way in which... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-11-11 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 116,04 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Conceptual Change in Biology Alan C. Love This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features revised papers that originated from the workshop "Conceptual Change in Biological... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-11-07 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 126,59 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy Vasia Lekka This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the world’s first neurological hospital, the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London, and on its leading... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-06-19 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Felix Kaufmann's Theory and Method in the Social Sciences Robert S. Cohen , Ingeborg K. Helling This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-05-19 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 137,14 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The History of Physics in Cuba Angelo Baracca , Jürgen Renn , Helge Wendt This book brings together a broad spectrum of authors, both from inside and from outside Cuba, who describe the development of Cuba's scientific system from the colonial period to the present. It is a unique documentation of the self-organizing power of a local... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-04-22 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
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