Philosophy of Science Today
Published on 1. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
308 pages
978-0-19-925055-4 (ISBN)
Description
Philosophy of Science Today offers a state-of-the-art guide to this fast-developing area. An eminent international team of authors covers a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences, including causation, realism, methodology, epistemology, and the philosophical foundations of physics, biology, and psychology. An expanded version of a special issue of the leading journal BJPS, this collection will be valuable to advanced students as well as to scholars.
Reviews / Votes
The quality of the contributors to this collection is high, and so is the quality of their contributions ... the range of the material covered by the volume is impressively broad. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-925055-4 (9780199250554)
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Peter Clark | Katherine Hawley
Philosophy of Science Today
Book
05/2003
Oxford University Press
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Persons
Clark, Peter / Hawley, Katherine (both of the Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)
Content
Introduction ; 1. The Logic of Success ; 2. The Theory of Knowledge: Saving Epistemology from the Epistemologists ; 3. The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate ; 4. 'New Age' Philosophies of Science: Constructivism, Feminism, and Postmodernism ; 5. Causation and Pre-emption ; 6. Philosophy of Mind ; 7. Philosophy of Biology ; 8. Philosophy of Mathematics ; 9. Geometry and Motion ; 10. Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics ; 11. Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory ; 12. Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical Mechanics ; Index