Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 62
• Philosophy of mind has been one of the most active fields in philosophy for the past three decades. One of the most significant factors in the develop... Lees meer

A Logical Approach to Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 69
• Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001. Three days later, on ... Lees meer

Eppur Si Muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 81
• This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a festschrift for Pe... Lees meer

The Completeness of Scientific Theories

Martin Carrier

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 53
• Earlier in this century, many philosophers of science (for example, Rudolf Carnap) drew a fairly sharp distinction between theory and observation, bet... Lees meer

The Philosophy of Right and Left

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 46
• Incongruent counterparts are objects that are perfectly similar except for being mirror images of each other, such as left and right human hands. Imma... Lees meer

Ernst Mach's World Elements

E C Banks

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 68
• By exploring Mach's views on science as well as philosophy, this book attempts to wrest him free from his customary association with logical positivis... Lees meer

Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects

C Cheyne

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 67
• According to platonists, entities such as numbers, sets, propositions and properties are abstract objects. But abstract objects lack causal powers and... Lees meer

The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 60
• According to the modal interpretation, the standard mathematical framework of quantum mechanics specifies the physical magnitudes of a system, which h... Lees meer

Tradition and Innovation

J E McGuire

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 56
• In my early years I was constituted in the exacting imperatives of philosophical analysis. That stern face is present in the composition of the Newton... Lees meer

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 51
• Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, ... Lees meer

Intuition and the Axiomatic Method

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 70
• Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era considered Kant's theory of intuition... Lees meer

Kant and Contemporary Epistemology

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 54
• From the mid-1960s, after the important works by J. Hintikka, S. Körner, W. Sellars and P.F. Strawson, there has been a marked revival of Kantian epis... Lees meer

Perspectives on Kuhn

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 84
• This book presents essays and commentaries that continue on Thomas Kuhn's work from where he left off at the time of his death. Contrary to other book... Lees meer

Empiricism and Darwin's Science

F Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 47
• I would like to record my thanks to Paul Thompson for useful conver- sations over the years, and also to several generations of students who have help... Lees meer

The Creation of Ideas in Physics

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 55
• The unusual ambition of this volume is to engage scientists, historians, and philosophers in a common quest to delineate the structure of the creative... Lees meer

Constructivism and Science

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 44
• The idea to produce the current volume was conceived by Jiirgen Mittelstrass and Robert E. Butts in 1978. Idealist philosophers are wrong about one th... Lees meer

Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Epistemic Circle

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 73
• In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work o... Lees meer

Physicalism in Mathematics

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 45
• This collection of papers has its origin in a conference held at the Uni- versity of Toronto in June of 1988. The theme of the conference was Physical... Lees meer

Witches, Scientists, Philosophers: Essays and Lectures

Robert E Butts

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 65
• Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher and historian of science whose central concerns were the distinction between the rational and the irrati... Lees meer

Number to Sound

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 64
• Number 10 Sound: The Musical Way 10 the Scientific Revolution is a collection of twelve essays by writers from the fields of musicology and the histor... Lees meer

Experiencing Nature

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 58
• This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiogr... Lees meer

The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics

John L Bell

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 82
• This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematica... Lees meer

The Art of the Intelligible

J Bell

• Paperback | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 63
• A compact survey, at the elementary level, of some of the most important concepts of mathematics. Attention is paid to their technical features, histo... Lees meer

Euclid's Heritage. Is Space Three-Dimensional?

P Janich

• Hardcover | Engels | The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science | nr. 52
• We live in a space, we get about in it. We also quantify it, we think of it as having dimensions. Ever since Euclid's ancient geometry, we have though... Lees meer