Philosophy of Science Today

Katherine Hawley, Peter Clark

300 pages, parution le 17/04/2003

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Résumé

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.

Readership: Graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and scholars of philosophy of science and related areas.

Contents

Introduction
The Logic of Success
The Theory of Knowledge: Saving Epistemology from the Epistemologists
The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate
'New Age' Philosophies of Science: Constructivism, Feminism, and Postmodernism
Causation and Pre-emption
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Mathematics
Geometry and Motion
Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics
Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical Mechanics

L'auteur - Katherine Hawley

Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews

L'auteur - Peter Clark

Peter Clark, Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Katherine Hawley, Peter Clark
Parution	17/04/2003
Nb. de pages	300
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	434g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199250554
ISBN13	978-0-19-925055-4