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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives Alain Bernard , Christine Proust This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-11-26 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues Kostas Gavroglu The history of artificial cold has been a rather intriguing interdisciplinary subject (physics, chemistry, technology, sociology, economics, anthropology, consumer studies) which despite some excellent monographs and research papers, has not been systematically... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-11-19 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions Marcel Herbst The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume.The book... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-10-02 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism Nikolay Milkov , Volker Peckhaus The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-02-26 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Structural Links between Ecology, Evolution and Ethics Donato Bergandi Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-01-06 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Very Idea of Modern Science Joseph Agassi This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-12-14 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy Sophie Roux The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new »... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-09-25 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Evaluating Philosophies Mario Bunge The first part deals with philosophies that have had a significant input, positive or negative, on the search for truth; it suggests that scientific and technological are either stimulated or smothered by a philosophical matrix; and it outlines two ontological... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-07-04 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 116,04 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Is Water H2O? Hasok Chang This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O. Three main phases of development are... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-05-23 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 336,54 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Material Realization of Science Hans Radder This book develops a conception of science as a multi-dimensional practice, which includes experimental action and production, conceptual-theoretical interpretation, and formal-mathematical work. On this basis, it addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-05-03 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Characterizing the Robustness of Science Thomas Nickles , Léna Soler , Emiliano Trizio , William Wimsatt , William Wimsatt Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-03-22 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Physical Systems Ori Belkind Based on the concept of a physical system, this book offers a new philosophical interpretation of classical mechanics and the Special Theory of Relativity. According to Belkind’s view the role of physical theory is to describe the motions of the parts of a physical... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-02-02 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Development of Quine's Philosophy Murray Murphey This book covers W. V. Quine's philosophic career from his early radical empiricism and behaviorism through his development of a series of skeptical doctrines regarding meaning, reference, and science. It shows what problems he tried to solve and what his solutions... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-12-22 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Interpreting Physics Edward Mackinnon This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-11-23 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Philosophy of Behavioral Biology Kathryn S. Plaisance , Thomas A.C. Reydon This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-10-05 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Integrating History and Philosophy of Science Seymour Mauskopf , Tad Schmaltz Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-09-06 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Niels Bohr's Complementarity Makoto Katsumori This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr’s philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically calls “spectators” and “actors.” It seeks to spell out the structural... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-09-01 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Commentary on the Principles of Thermodynamics by Pierre Duhem Paul Needham Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) held the chair of theoretical physics at Bordeaux from 1894 to his death. He established a reputation in both the history and philosophy of science as well as in science itself (physics and physical chemistry). Much of his work in the first two... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-05-30 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Honoré Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks Michael Elazar This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-05-20 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Brazilian Studies in Philosophy and History of Science Décio Krause , Antonio Videira This volume, The Brazilian Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, is the first attempt to present to a general audience, works from Brazil on this subject. The included papers are original, covering a remarkable number of relevant topics of philosophy of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-01-27 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 94,94 €
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