What is philosophy of science

Philosophy of Science

The world didn't end on 10 September 2008, but the possibility may have got you thinking: was it worth the risk? What is the point of science actually

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What is Philosophy?

This work examines what it means to be a philosopher and attacks the sterility of modern philosophy. Part One explores the nature and scope of philoso

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What is Analytic Philosophy?

In this wide-ranging textbook, Hans Johann Glock considers the pros and cons of various definitions of analytic philosophy, and tackles the methodolog

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What Is Ancient Philosophy?

Hadot shows how the schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy strove to transform the individualÂ’s mode of perceiving and bein

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Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science

This introductory text offers a new approach to the philosophy of social science by focusing on what is involved in knowing others from different cult

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This is Philosophy of Science

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What is Philosophy of Religion?

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What is Philosophy of Mind?

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Philosophy of Social Science

This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is design

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The Science Timeline Wallbook: Unfold the Story of Inventions--From the Stone Age to the Present Day!

Uncover the most amazing moments in scientific and technological discovery in this fascinating, over-sized timeline reference. Created in association with the American Museum of Natural History, the timeline is uniquely broken out into sev

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Philosophy and Practice of Science

This book is a novel synthesis of the philosophy and practice of science, covering its diverse theoretical, metaphysical, logical, philosophical, soci

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Philosophy of Science for Scientists

It argues against the common assumption that there is fundamental difference between natural and human science, with natural science being concerned w

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Science Meets Philosophy Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book is an attempt to bring together what are often seen as incommensurable scientific and philosophical positions. Taking a historical perspective, the book traces the divides in science back to three main philosophical traditions: realism, idealism, and scepticism. The book is intended for a general audience concerned with today’s debates on scientific knowledge an...

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Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science

A comprehensive resource on feminist thinking about and in the sciences. Coverage is divided into four parts: I. Hidden Figures and Historical Critiqu

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What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky's theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on modern directions in philosophy of

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Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science

This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. It is aimed

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Philosophy of Pseudoscience

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? This title seeks to answer this question, known to philosophers o

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What is 'Islamic' Art?

Investigating what is Islamic about Islamic art through analysis of the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufi texts, ancient philosophy, and a rich corpus of transcult

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What is Scientific Knowledge?

What is Scientific Knowledge? is a much-needed collection of introductory-level chapters on the epistemology of science.

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What Even Is Gender?

A bold and thought-provoking approach to thinking about gender, What Even Is Gender? will be of great interest to those in philosophy, gender studies,

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What Love Is

A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions

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What is Life?

Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it

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What is Life?

'A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN EXPLORATION OF PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IN SCIENCE.' BRIAN COX ----- Life is all around us, abundant and diverse, it

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What is Life?

'A BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN EXPLORATION OF PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IN SCIENCE.' BRIAN COX ----- Life is all around us, abundant and diverse, it

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Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction

It spans several disciplines and is the first collection of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, particularly philo

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Philosophy of Luxury

What is luxury? Is someone who finds luxury normal experiencing luxury? Luxury has received remarkably little sustained philosophical examination. Thi

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Philosophy of Love

What is love? Is it something that can be measured and explained? If you asked Alice and Luke you'd get vastly different answers...

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Philosophy of Cybersecurity

This is a book for everyone - a wide audience. Experts, academic lecturers, as well as students of technical fields such as computer science and socia

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Doing Philosophy

First published in 2012, this title presents the basics of how â€to do’ philosophy - what it is, how we can think, the nature of logic, some sp

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Philosophy of Well-Being

Well-being is one of the foremost topics in ethics, which extends far beyond philosophy: studies into the science and psychology of well-being and 'we

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Philosophy of Causality in Economics

What do economists mean when they conclude that A ‘causes’ B? Does ‘cause’ say that we can influence B by intervening on A, or is it only a label

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What´s the Point of Science? - kolektiv autorů

Anotace: Wonderful storytelling and hand-drawn illustrations reveal the wonder of scientific discovery through history, ages 9-12Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING!From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this boo...

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What´s the Point of Science? - autorů kolektiv

<p>Wonderful storytelling and hand-drawn illustrations reveal the wonder of scientific discovery through history, ages 9-12 Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING! From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this...

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Rene Descartes: Principles of Philosophy

Descartes's Principles 0. / Philosophy is his longest and most ambitious work; it is the only work in which he attempted to actually deduce scientific knowledge from Cartesian metaphysics, as he repeatedly claimed was possible. Whatever the success of this attempt, there can be no doubt that it was enormously influential. Cartesian celestial mechanics held sway for well o...

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Science of Animal Welfare

What is animal welfare? Why has it proved so difficult to find a definition that everyone can agree on? This concise and accessible guide is for anyon

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Methodology of Science

This publication covers the essential problems of the methodology of science. The methodology of science is understood to mean primarily a theory of scientific methods and techniques; the use of scientific methods in scientific research and in the construction of scientific theories. It examines in detail the axiomatic-deductive and inductive approaches in constructing a ...

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Philosophy for Teens

What is love? Is lying always wrong? Is beauty a matter of fact, or a matter of taste? What is discrimination?The answers to these questions, and more

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Philosophy and Conceptual Art

Leading philosophers and art theorists engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follow

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Pocket Philosophy: Epictetus' Raven

The Pocket Philosophy series introduces readers of all ages to the biggest names in philosophy. Epictetus is reminding us to focus only on what we can

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What Even Is Gender? Taylor & Francis Ltd

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called gender that both sides are arguing about. A bold and thought-provoking a...

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What Even Is Gender? Taylor & Francis Ltd

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called gender that both sides are arguing about. A bold and thought-provoking a...

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Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way - Kieran Setiya

<p>Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice ... Hope?Life is hard - as the past few years have made painfully clear. From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world, sometimes simply going on can feel too much.But could there be solace - and even hope - in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition? Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striv...

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Philosophy for Beginners

Philosophy is a way of thinking about just about anything. It asks big questions, such as “how can I be good?” or “what makes something beautiful?Â

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Reliability-Centered Maintenance

This text gives a practical explanation of what reliability-centred maintenance is and how it is efectively applied. The plant-based approach of the b

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Panpsychism – The Philosophy of the Sensuous Cosmos

Are free will and mind chimeras? This book, anti-materialistic but respecting science, answers, 'No! Mind is foundational to all existence.'

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Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may

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Electrical Engineering 101

Covers the basic theory and practice of electronics, starting by answering the question 'What is electricity? This title goes on to explain the fundam

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Analog Circuits

Highlights basic design concepts that can be adapted to technology as well as design material specific to what is happening in the field of analog cir

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At The Fringes Of Science

In this book, Michael Friedlander provides an increased understanding of what science is, how it works, and how the nonscientist should deal with scie

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The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan

<p>The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One — and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen F...

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Methodology of Science - František Ochrana

Anotace: This publication covers the essential problems of the methodology of science. The methodology of science is understood to mean primarily a theory of scientific methods and techniques; the use of scientific methods in scientific research and in the construction of scientific theories. It examines in detail the axiomatic-deductive and inductive approaches in const...

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Methodology of Science - František Ochrana

<p>This publication covers the essential problems of the methodology of science. The methodology of science is understood to mean primarily a theory of scientific methods and techniques; the use of scientific methods in scientific research and in the construction of scientific theories. It examines in detail the axiomatic-deductive and inductive approaches in constr...

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Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy

Traditionally, alchemy has been understood as a precursor to the science of chemistry but from the vantage point of the human spirit, it is also a dis

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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Gottlieb Anthony

Anotace: The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mod...

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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Anthony Gottlieb

<p>The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mode...

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The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language (0141990384)

Kniha - autor Albert Costa, 176 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher SpectatorThe definitive study of bilingualism and the ...

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The Bilingual Brain : And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language - Albert Costa

<p>'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher SpectatorThe definitive study of bilingualism and the human brain from a leading neuropsychologistOver half of the world's ...

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Noncommutative Geometry

Reveals what noncommutative geometry is, what it can do, or how it can be used in various areas of mathematics, quantization, and elementary particles

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Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

While Kant's philosophy of science is a growing field of study, his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science has often been poorly understood. This

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What Is Inside a Black Hole? - Stephen William Hawking

<p>'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out' What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. In What Is Inside a Black Hole? Hawking takes us on a journey to the outer reaches of our ima...

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