Tous les livres numériques de la collection "Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science" - Springer

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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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Scientific Structuralism Alisa Bokulich , Peter Bokulich Recently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science. Taking their lead from scientific structuralists such as Henri Poincaré, Ernst Cassirer, and Bertrand Russell, some contemporary philosophers and scientists have argued that the most... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-01-21 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Science between Europe and Asia Feza Günergun , Dhruv Raina This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-12-09 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Science in the Context of Application Martin Carrier , Alfred Nordmann We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very problems of scientific... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-11-12 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 147,69 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Matter and Mind Mario Bunge This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter?, and What is mind? A reason for tackling both problems in a single book is that two of the most influential views in modern philosophy are that the universe is... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-09-14 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 179,34 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science Florence Bretelle-Establet How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians’ sources. For... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-06-16 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 210,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Place of Probability in Science Ellery Eells , J.H. Fetzer Science aims at the discovery of general principles of special kinds that are applicable for the explanation and prediction of the phenomena of the world in the form of theories and laws. When the phenomena themselves happen to be general, the principlesinvolved assume... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2010-06-08 Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science ePub 179,34 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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