Peter Clark / Katherine Hawley (eds.)

Philosophy of Science Today

Herausgeber: Clark, Peter; Hawley, Katherine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250547
• ISBN-10: 0199250545
• Artikelnr.: 22946054

Autorenporträt

Clark, Peter / Hawley, Katherine (both of the Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Kevin T. Kelly: The Logic of Success
* 2: Adam Morton: The Theory of Knowledge: Saving Epistemology from the
Epistemologists
* 3: Stathis Psillos: The Scientific Realism Debate
* 4: Noretta Koertge: 'New Age' Philosophies of Science:
Constructivism, Feminism, and Postmodernism
* 5: Ned Hall and L. A. Paul: Causation
* 6: John Campbell: Philosophy of Mind
* 7: Robert Brandon and Alex Rosenberg: Philosophy of Biology
* 8: Stewart Shapiro: Philosophy of Mathematics
* 9: Gordon Belot: Geometry and Motion
* 10: Jeffrey Bub: Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of
Quantum Mechanics
* 11: Nick Huggett: Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
* 12: Lawrence Sklar: Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical
Mechanics
* Index