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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Hardcover)

The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Time Causality and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume Two Time in a Quantized Universe (Hardcover)

Time Causality and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume Two Time in a Quantized Universe more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Japanese Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Hardcover)

The splendid achievements of Japanese mathematics and natural sciences during the second half of our 20th century have been a revival a Renaissance of the practical sciences developed along with the turn toward Western thinking in the late 19th... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Paperback)

The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Austrian Philosophy Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Rudolf Haller (Hardcover)

This book is about Austrian philosophy leading up to the philosophy of Rudolf Haller. It emerged from a philosophy conference held at the University of Arizona by Keith Lehrer with the support of the University of Arizona and Austrian Cultural... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: The Problem of Rationality in Science and Its Philosophy (Hardcover)

Rationality of science was the topic of two conferences (held in 1988 and 1989) organized by the Department of Philosophy of Science Institute of Philosophy Jagiellonian University. Both conferences included a small group of invited speakers. This book... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Experimental Metaphysics: Quantum Mechanical Studies for Abner Shimony Volume One (Hardcover)

Experimental Metaphysics is intended for theoretical physicists and philosophers of science and is devoted to fundamental issues in the quantum domain. The book presents a number of discussions of experiments theoretical puzzles and alternative... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Logical and Epistemological Studies in Contemporary Physics (Hardcover)

In this volume of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science we present a collection of articles on philosophical issues in contemporary physics. The principal domain of these investigations is quantum physics. There are also articles on questions... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy (Hardcover)

Since the Niels Bohr centenary of 1985 there has been an astonishing international surge of scholarly analyses of Bohr s philosophy. Now for the first time in Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy Jan Faye and Henry Folse have brought together sixteen... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Schrödinger s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)

This book is the final outcome of two projects. My first project was to publish a set of texts written by Schrodinger at the beginning of the 1950 s for his seminars and lectures at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. These almost completely... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Nietzsche Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II (Hardcover)

Nietzsche Epistemology and Philosophy of Science is the second volume of a collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences featuring essays addressing truth epistemology and the philosophy of science with a substantial representation of analytically schooled... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science (Hardcover)

Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to devising and exploring representations of all kinds. From photographs and computer-generated images to diagrams charts and graphs; from scale... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Encouraging Openness: Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday (Paperback)

Encouraging Openness: Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look: Documents and New Perspectives (Hardcover)

Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look has been written to reveal to English-speaking readers the recent revival of interest in Ernst Mach in Europe and Japan. The book is a storehouse of new information on Mach as a philosopher historian scientist and person... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Conceptual Change in Biology: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development (Paperback)

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features revised papers that originated from the workshop Conceptual... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Galileo s Logic of Discovery and Proof: The Background Content and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle s Posterior Analytics (Pape

This volume is presented as a companion study to my translation of Galileo s MS 27 Galileo s Logical Treatises which contains Galileo s appropriated questions on Aristotle s Posterior Analytics - a work only recently transcribed from the Latin... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Neurath Reconsidered: New Sources and Perspectives (Hardcover)

Introduces new perspectives on Neurath s life and worksCollates the work of leading experts on Neurath and logical empiricism Uses archive materials to present a comprehensive study on Neurath Discusses all Neurath s works from the well-known to... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: The Invention of Physical Science (Hardcover)

Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations. Contemporary scientific explanation is rigorously differentiated from religious... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Looking at It from Asia: The Processes That Shaped the Sources of History of Science (Hardcover)

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... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: What Does It Mean to Be an Empiricist?: Empiricisms in Eighteenth Century Sciences (Paperback)

Inventive papers which shed new light on 18th Century empiricism as a constitutive moment of European science Constructive dialog between experienced scholars and up-and-coming researchers more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age: New Perspectives on the Science-Technology Relationship (Hardcover)

Historians and philosophers of technology are searching for new approaches to the study of the interaction between science and technology. New conceptual frameworks are necessary since the idea that technology is simply applied science is nothing short... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Matter and Mind: A Philosophical Inquiry (Hardcover)

This book tackles two of the oldest and hardest questions in both science and philosophy: What is matter? and What is mind? As the debate rages between idealists and materialists the volume attempts to find common ground between the two extremes. more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Defending Copernicus and Galileo: Critical Reasoning in the Two Affairs (Hardcover)

Galileo s trial over his theories on the Earth s motion ended with his condemnation by the Inquisition. This book judiciously compares and contrasts that trial and the subsequent controversy over the rightness of that condemnation continuing to our day. more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Mixture and Chemical Combination: And Related Essays (Hardcover)

Much of Duhem s work as a professional scientist was closely related to the newly emerging discipline of physical chemistry. The book and associated papers translated here revolve around his concomitant philosophical and historical interests in... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Swinging and Rolling: Unveiling Galileo s Unorthodox Path from a Challenging Problem to a New Science (Hardcover)

Novel insights into accelerated motion Historical overview of Galileo Presents research from Max Planck Institute for the History of Science more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Philosophical Problems of Space and Time: Second Enlarged Edition (Hardcover)

It is ten years since Adolf Griinbaum published the first edition of this book. It was promptly recognized to be one of the few major works in the philosophy of the natural sciences of this generation. In part this is so because Griinbaum has chosen a... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Quantum Reprogramming: Ensembles and Single Systems: A Two-Tier Approach to Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)

Many perhaps most textbooks of quantum mechanics present a Copenhagen single system angle; fewer present the subject matter as an instrument for treating ensembles but the two methods have been silently coexisting since the mid-Thirties. This lingering... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Underdetermination: An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge (Paperback)

This timely book offers a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically underdetermined by the data they account for. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological aspects of the topic in detail and reviewing... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: The Founders of Western Thought - The Presocratics (Paperback)

There can be little doubt that the Greek tradition of philosophical criticism had its main source in Ionia. . . It thus leads the tradition which created the rational or scienti?c attitude and with it our Western civilization the only civilization... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Analytical Mechanics (Hardcover)

to the English translation of Lagrange s Mecanique Analytique Lagrange s Mecanique Analytique appeared early in 1788 almost exactly one cen- tury after the publication of Newton s Principia Mathematica. It marked the culmination of a line of research... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Nietzsche Theories of Knowledge and Critical Theory: Nietzsche and the Sciences I (Hardcover)

Nietzsche Theories of Knowledge and Critical Theory the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic but Cartesian... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Between Experience and Metaphysics: Philosophical Problems of the Evolution of Science (Paperback)

Polish philosophy of science has been the beneficiary of three powerful creative streams of scientific and philosophical thought. First and fore- most was the Lwow-Warsaw school of Polish analytical philosophy founded by Twardowski and continued in... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Historical Pragmatics: Philosophical Essays (Hardcover)

For 35 years the critical and creative writings of Robert E. Butts have been a notable and welcome part of European and North American philosophy. A few years ago James Robert Brown and Jiirgen Mittelstrass feted Professor Butts with a volume entitled... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Science in the Context of Application (Hardcover)

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... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Commentary on the Principles of Thermodynamics by Pierre Duhem (Hardcover)

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... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Erich Hückel (1896-1980): From Physics to Quantum Chemistry (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments; Introduction 1 Erich Hückel s Education and Scientific Awakening: The Path to Quantum Chemistry 2 Erich Hückel s Research Agenda during the 1930s: Underpinning Organic Chemistry with Quantum Theory 3 The Controversy between Erich... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Selected Papers of Léon Rosenfeld (Hardcover)

The decision to undertake this volume was made in 1971 at Lake Como during the Varenna summer school ofthe Italian Physical Society where Professor Leon Rosenfeld was lecturing on the history of quantum theory. We had long been struck by the unique... more

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: Reason and Being (Hardcover)

Boris Kuznetsov was a scientist among humanists a philosopher among scientists a historian for those who look to the future an optimist in an age of sadness. He was steeped in classical European culture from earliest times to the latest avant-garde and... more