Philosophy of Science Today

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925055-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

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. An expanded version of a special issue of the leading journal BJPS, this collection will be valuable to advanced students as well as to scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Peter

Hawley, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Clark, Peter / Hawley, Katherine (both of the Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews)