The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory
Title | The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0691233853 |
This classic work in the philosophy of physical science is an incisive and readable account of the scientific method. Pierre Duhem was one of the great figures in French science, a devoted teacher, and a distinguished scholar of the history and philosophy of science. This book represents his most mature thought on a wide range of topics.
The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory
Title | The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2003-01 |
Genre | Physics |
ISBN | 9780758156426 |
This classic work in the philosophy of physical science is an incisive and readable account of the scientific method. Pierre Duhem was one of the great figures in French science, a devoted teacher, and a distinguished scholar of the history and philosophy of science. This book represents his most mature thought on a wide range of topics.
Science Rules
Title | Science Rules PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Achinstein |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2004-09-24 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780801879449 |
Included is a famous nineteenth-century debate about scientific reasoning between the hypothetico-deductivist William Whewell and the inductivist John Stuart Mill; and an account of the realism-antirealism dispute about unobservables in science, with a consideration of Perrin's argument for the existence of molecules in the early twentieth century.
Arguing about Science
Title | Arguing about Science PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Bird |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 793 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0415492297 |
This title offers a selection of thought-provoking articles that examine a broad range of issues, from the demarcation problem, induction and explanation to contemporary issues such as the relationship between science and race and gender, and science and religion
The Theoretical Practices of Physics
Title | The Theoretical Practices of Physics PDF eBook |
Author | R. I. G. Hughes |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2009-12-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191609366 |
R.I.G. Hughes presents a series of eight philosophical essays on the theoretical practices of physics. The first two essays examine these practices as they appear in physicists' treatises (e.g. Newton's Principia and Opticks) and journal articles (by Einstein, Bohm and Pines, Aharonov and Bohm). By treating these publications as texts, Hughes casts the philosopher of science in the role of critic. This premise guides the following six essays which deal with various concerns of philosophy and physics such as laws, disunities, models and representation, computer simulation, explanation, and the discourse of physics.
Theory and Reality
Title | Theory and Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Godfrey-Smith |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2021-07-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022677113X |
How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow. The second edition is thoroughly updated and expanded by the author with a new chapter on truth, simplicity, and models in science.
Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge
Title | Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Jagdish Hattiangadi |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 312 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 303152585X |