Télécharger le livre :  Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice

This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine. Medicine has provided challenging case studies for the...
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Parution : 2022-08-09
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Kant's Cosmology

This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781. With the Theory of the Heavens (1755) and the Physical Monadology (1756), the young Kant had presented an ambitious approach to physical...
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Parution : 2020-12-18
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Mechanistic Explanations in Physics and Beyond

This volume offers a broad, philosophical discussion on mechanical explanations. Coverage ranges from historical approaches and general questions to physics and higher-level sciences . The contributors also consider the topics of complexity, emergence, and...
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Parution : 2019-08-28
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Quantum Mechanics Between Ontology and Epistemology

This book explores the prospects of rivaling ontological and epistemic interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM). It concludes with a suggestion for how to interpret QM from an epistemological point of view and with a Kantian touch. It thus refines, extends, and...
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Parution : 2018-10-24
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Science

This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership. It groups carefully selected contributions into the four fields of I) philosophy of physics,...
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Parution : 2018-03-26
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction

This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science.  The author offers a full...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-08-30
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  The Union of Chemistry and Physics

This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines. The author uses structuralist approach to explore the overlap between the two sciences,...
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Parution : 2017-08-01
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  EPSA15 Selected Papers

This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science. It comprises of thematically arranged papers presented at the 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA15), covering a broad variety of topics...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-04-26
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Making it Formally Explicit

This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Kraków Research Group on Probability, Causality...
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Parution : 2017-04-18
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Knowledge

This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences. It seeks to answer the question of whether or not philosophy can...
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Parution : 2017-03-29
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  The Deep Metaphysics of Space

This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space or spacetime, substantivalism and relationism, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these physical theories. This book also examines and develops alternative...
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Parution : 2016-10-12
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  A Pluralist Theory of the Mind

This book challenges common debates in philosophy of mind by questioning the framework of placement problems in contemporary metaphysics. The author argues that placement problems arise when exactly one fundamental ontology serves as the base for all entities, and will...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-10-22
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki

This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine,  laws of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-09-09
Collection : European Studies in Philosophy of Science
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