The Philosophy of Science Today

Ed. by Peter Clark and Katherine Hawley

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A state-of-the-art guide to the fast-developing area of the philosophy of science. 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. An expanded version of a special issue of the journal "BJPS", this collection should be valuable to advanced students as well as to scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250554
• ISBN-10: 0199250553
• Artikelnr.: 11578844

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 Present State of the Scientific Realism
Debate
* 4: Noretta Koertge: 'New Age' Philosophies of Science:
Constructivism, Feminism, and Postmodernism
* 5: Ned Hall and L. A. Paul: Causation and Pre-emption
* 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