Tous les ebooks de la collection "Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" - Springer

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes Edmundo Balsemão Pires , Joaquim Braga This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought. The chapters reflect a rethinking of Mandeville’s legacy and, together, present a comprehensive approach to Mandeville’s work. The book is... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-10-05 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies String Figures as Mathematics? Eric Vandendriessche This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-01-02 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World Roy J. Shephard This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-11-27 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 231,04 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Force of Percussion Giovanni Alfonso Borelli This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and demonstrates the nature of the energy of percussion, its causes, properties and effects. Building on and moving away from the theory of mechanics as formulated by Aristotle and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-10-29 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity Giovanni Alfonso Borelli This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to the natural movements of bodies in a fluid environment. It describes in great detail why and how bodies which present with... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-10-17 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Discourse of Sensibility Henry Martyn Lloyd This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of sensibility is... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-12-12 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Cartesian Empiricisms Mihnea Dobre , Tammy Nyden Cartesian Empiricisms considers the role Cartesians played in the acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the seventeenth century. It aims to correct a partial image ofCartesian philosophers as paradigmatic system builders who failed to meet challenges... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-11-29 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World Ofer Gal , Yi Zheng This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge. It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-11-08 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals Jason A. Tipton This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological works of Aristotle and revisits the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-10-21 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 105,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge Thomas M Dousa , Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we construct meaning from the perceptions of things? Although no consensus... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-08-30 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Understanding Imagination Dennis L Sepper This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-05-13 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy Martin Lenz , Anik Waldow Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-05-13 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Descartes-Agonistes John Schuster This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes’... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-10-23 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism Marco Sgarbi Offers an extremely bold, far-reaching, and unsuspected thesis in the history of philosophy: Aristotelianism was a dominant movement of the British philosophical landscape, especially in the field of logic, and it had a long survival. British Aristotelian doctrines were... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-10-11 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Rationis Defensor James Maclaurin Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-04-23 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge Ofer Gal , Charles T. Wolfe It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-04-07 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 210,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy Jill Kraye , G.A. Rogers , Tom Sorell , Tom Sorell Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge from first... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2009-10-28 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ePub 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany Luciano Boschiero The aim of this book is to explore and understand the activities undertaken by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento, one of Europe’s first scientific societies.The Cimento operated for ten years, between 1657 and 1667, and during that time performed many experiments and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2007-09-04 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF 231,04 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Rationality and Reality Colin Cheyne , John Worrall Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical – critical realism and critical rationalism. In defence of critcal realism he argues for the objective existence of the external world as opposed to idealism, as well as arguing for... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2006-07-25 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF 147,69 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century John A. Schuster , Peter R. Anstey , John A. Schuster One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise of the natural sciences. The exponential expansion of scientific knowledge and the accompanying technology that so impact on our daily lives are truly remarkable. But what is often taken for granted is... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2006-06-28 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF 94,94 €
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