The Cosmos Of Science
Essays of Exploration
Published on 15. December 1998
598 pages
978-0-8229-7201-3 (ISBN)
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The Cosmos of Science presents a cross section of the best work currently being done in history and philosophy of science, exploring fundamental questions in four major areas: history of science; foundations of mathematics and physics; induction and scientific methodology; and action and rationality. Together these essays from the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series reveal the coherence and order of the cosmos of science.
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John Earman is University Professor in the History and Philosopy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of numerous books including: Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles; World Enough and Space-time: Absolute vs. Relational Theories of Space and Time; Bayes or Bust: A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory; Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- History of Science
- 1. What's New in Kepler's New Astronomy? - Bernard R. Goldstein
- 2. Experiment, Community, and the Constitution of Nature in the Seventeenth Century - Daniel Garber
- 3. Isaac Newton on Empirical Success and Scientific Method - William Harper
- 4. A Peek Behind the Veil of Maya: Einstein, Schopenhauer, and the Historical Background of the Conception of Space as a Ground for the Individuation of Physical Systems - Don Howard
- Foundations of Mathematics and Physics
- 5. From Constructive to Predictive Mathematics - Geoffrey Hellman
- 6. Halfway Through the Woods: Contemporary Research on Space and Time - Carlo Rovelli
- 7. What Superpositions Feel Like -David Z Albert
- 8. The Preparation Problem in Quantum Mechanics - Linda Wessels
- 9. Schrodinger's Cat and Other Entanglements of Quantum Mechanics - Jeffrey Bub
- 10. Deterministic Chaos and the Nature of Chance - John A. Winnie
- 11. Models, the Brownian Motion, and the Disunities of Physics - R.I.G. Hughes
- Induction, Scientific Methodology, and the Philosophy of Science
- 12. The Continuum of Inductive Methods Revisited - Sandy L. Zabell
- 13. Science Without Induction - Frederick Suppe
- 14. That Just Don't Sound Right: A Plea for Real Examples - David L. Hull
- 15. A Logical Framework for the Notion of Natural Property - J. Michael Dunn
- 16. Singular Causation and Laws of Nature - David M. Armstrong
- Action and Rationality
- 17. Action and Autonomy - Fred Dretske
- 18. Explanations Involving Rationality - Peter Railton
- Index
