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9780199250547

Philosophy of Science Today

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    9780199250547

  • ISBN10:

    0199250545

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-06-12
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(10)
1 The Logic of success 11(28)
Kevin T. Kelly
2 The Theory of Knowledge: Saving Epistemology from the Epistemologists 39(20)
Adam Morton
3 The Present state of the scientific Realism Debate 59(24)
Stathis Psillos
4 'New Age' Philosophies of Science: Constructivism, Feminism and Postmodernism 83(17)
Noretta Koertge
5 Causation and Pre-emption 100(31)
Ned Hall and L. A. Paul
6 Philosophy of Mind 131(16)
John Campbell
7 Philosophy of Biology 147(34)
Robert Brandon and Alex Rosenberg
8 Philosophy of Mathematics 181(20)
Stewart Shapiro
9 Geometry and Motion 201(35)
Gordon Belot
10 Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics 236(19)
Jeffrey Bub
11 Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory 255(21)
Nick Huggett
12 Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical Mechanics 276(15)
Lawrence Sklar
Index 291

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