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Normative Texts And Occupational Practices - Towards New Social Histories Of Mathematics

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 This open access book explores the relations between normative mathematical texts, which encode various forms of measurement, calculation and reasoning, and the practices of accountants, craftspeople, artisans and other social actors.
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Feyerabend In Dialogue - Critical Essays

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 It does so by including questions about the nature of scientific methodology, the role of science in society, the public understanding of science, scientism, and the role of expertise in public policy.
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Rethinking Thomas Kuhn'S Legacy

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 Thomas Kuhn is widely considered as one of the most important philosophers of science in the 20th century and his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is regarded as one of the most influential works in the philosophy of science.
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Advances In Pilot Wave Theory - From Experiments To Foundations

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 This book provides a state-of-the-art review of Pilot Wave Theory at the beginning of the XXI century. Recent experimental work in HQA has provided impetus to develop the pilot-wave approach into a realistic basis of quantum mechanics, specifically a dynamical completion of the existing theory of quantum statistics.
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Theory, Evidence, Data: Themes From George E. Smith

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 Smith and further explores the notions of evidence and confirmation in the exact sciences from two perspectives: conceptual and historical. Contributions in this volume investigate the philosophical presuppositions, explanatory scope, and historical precursors of evidence in mathematical physics and related disciplines.
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Philosophers And Einstein'S Relativity - The Early Philosophical Reception Of The Relativistic Revolution

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 This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity.
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Between Leibniz, Newton, And Kant - Philosophy And Science In The Eighteenth Century

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 <div>This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset. As is well known, the interrelationship between philosophy and science underwent a profound change in the early modern period, in the course of which the sciences freed themselves from the conceptual framework of traditional metaphysics. The contributions of the volume focus on the eighteenth century, the critical and quite contradictory final phase of this process. The volume distinguishes itself by tracing this transition process not only in the obvious case of the new mechanics - Newtonianism and analytic mechanics - but also by addressing new speculative philosophies of nature - early modern atomism or imponderable physics - and new metaphysical controversies such as the body-mind problem (Can matter think?) as well as developments in special scientific fields such as cosmology/astronomy and natural history.The volume is written by historians of philosophy and the sciences of the early modern period and is intended primarily for specialists and students in these fields of knowledge. However, it is certainly also interesting and useful for cultural historians working on this period.</div>
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Objects, Structures, And Logics - Filmat Studies In The Philosophy Of Mathematics

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 This edited collection casts light on central issues within contemporary philosophy of mathematics such as the realism/anti-realism dispute;
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Objects, Structures, And Logics - Filmat Studies In The Philosophy Of Mathematics

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 This edited collection casts light on central issues within contemporary philosophy of mathematics such as the realism/anti-realism dispute;
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Objects, Structures, And Logics - Filmat Studies In The Philosophy Of Mathematics

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 This edited collection casts light on central issues within contemporary philosophy of mathematics such as the realism/anti-realism dispute;
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Doing Integrated History And Philosophy Of Science: A Case Study Of The Origin Of Genetics

by Yafeng Shan

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 Part I lays out a new historiography, serving as a basis for the discussions in part II and part III. Part II introduces a new integrated HPS method to analyse and interpret the historiography in Part I and to re-examine the philosophical issues in Part III.
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Making Sense Of Health, Disease, And The Environment In Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, And North America

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 This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the body is perceived;
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Uncertainty In Pharmacology - Epistemology, Methods, And Decisions

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 The book focuses in particular on the diverse sources of uncertainty, the different kinds of uncertainty that there are, and the diverse ways in which these uncertainties are (or could be) addressed.
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Contingency And Natural Order In Early Modern Science

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 This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements â€" epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual.
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Swinging And Rolling - Unveiling Galileo''S Unorthodox Path From A Challenging Problem To A New Science

by Jochen Buttner

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 This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes.
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Neurath Reconsidered - New Sources And Perspectives

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 Readers will discover a new critical understanding.Drawing on archive materials, essays discuss not only Neurath's better-known works from lesser-known perspectives, but also his lesser-known works from the better-known perspective of their place in his overall philosophical oeuvre.
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Emergence And Expansion Of Preclassical Mechanics

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 The first section is concerned with the emergence and expansion of a form of mechanical knowledge defined by us as pre-classical mechanics. The definition purports to the period roughly between the 15th and the 17th century, before classical mechanics was formulated as a coherent and comprehensive mechanical theory in the sequel of Newton's work.
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Truth, Existence And Explanation - Filmat 2016 Studies In The Philosophy Of Mathematics

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 In addition, coverage also looks at the explanatory role of mathematics and the philosophical relevance of mathematical explanation. The book will appeal to a broad mathematical and philosophical audience.
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What Does It Mean To Be An Empiricist? - Empiricisms In Eighteenth Century Sciences

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 This book begins with an observation: At the time when empiricism arose and slowly established itself, the word itself had not yet been coined. It is a story of integration, appropriation and transformation more than one of mere opposition. We asked twelve authors to explore these fascinating new facets of empiricisms.
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Philosophy Of Engineering, East And West

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 This co-edited volume compares Chinese and Western experiences of engineering, technology, and development. Part III focuses on engineering, ethics, and society, with chapters on engineering education and practice in China and the West.
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Epistemic Virtues In The Sciences And The Humanities

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 This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences and humanities. It assists in addressing such questions as:What kind of perspective would enable us to compare organic chemists in their labs with paleographers in the Vatican Archives, or anthropologists on a field trip with mathematicians poring over their formulas?While the concept of epistemic virtues has previously been discussed, primarily in the contexts of the history and philosophy of science, this volume is the first to enlist the concept in bridging the gap between the histories of the sciences and the humanities. Chapters research whether epistemic virtues can serve as a tool to transcend the institutional disciplinary boundaries and thus help to attain a ‘post-disciplinary’ historiography of modern knowledge. Readers will gain a contextualization of epistemic virtues in time and space as the book shows that scholars themselves often spoke in terms of virtue and vice about their tasks and accomplishments. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives on questions, discourses, and practices shared across the disciplines, even at a time when the neo-Kantian distinction between sciences and humanities enjoyed its greatest authority. Scholars including historians of science and of the humanities, intellectual historians, virtue epistemologists, and philosophers of science will all find this book of particular interest and value.
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Philosophical Explorations Of The Legacy Of Alan Turing - Turing 100

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 This volume presents an historical and philosophical revisiting of the foundational character of Turing's conceptual contributions and assesses the impact of the work of Alan Turing on the history and philosophy of science.
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Time Of Nature And The Nature Of Time - Philosophical Perspectives Of Time In Natural Sciences

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 This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. The book first explores the experience of time and its relation to time in nature in a set of chapters that bring together what human experience and physics enable metaphysicians, logicians and scientists to say about time.
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Mathematics As A Tool - Tracing New Roles Of Mathematics In The Sciences

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 In accordance with the former, mathematics is assigned an active and even shaping role in the sciences, but at the same time, employing mathematics as a tool is taken to be independent from the possible mathematical structure of the objects under consideration.
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