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Philosophy of Science Today Peter Clark (Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

Philosophy of Science Today By Peter Clark (Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

Philosophy of Science Today by Peter Clark (Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)


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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 and epistemology.

Philosophy of Science Today Summary

Philosophy of Science Today by Peter Clark (Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction ; 1. The Logic of Success ; 2. The Theory of Knowledge: Saving Epistemology from the Epistemologists ; 3. The Scientific Realism Debate ; 4. 'New Age' Philosophies of Science: Constructivism, Feminism, and Postmodernism ; 5. Causation ; 6. Philosophy of Mind ; 7. Philosophy of Biology ; 8. Philosophy of Mathematics ; 9. Geometry and Motion ; 10. Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics ; 11. Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory ; 12. Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical Mechanics ; Index

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NPB9780199250547
9780199250547
0199250545
Philosophy of Science Today by Peter Clark (Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)
New
Hardback
Oxford University Press
2003-05-01
306
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