1 option
A historical introduction to the philosophy of science / John Losee.
LIBRA - Rare Q175 .L66 Adams copy
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Losee, John, author.
- Series:
- Oxford paperbacks university series ; Opus 57.
- Oxford paperbacks university series ; Opus 57
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy--History.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy.
- History.
- Philosophy--history.
- Science--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Philosophy--history.
- Science--history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Frome and London : Butler & Tanner Ltd.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, 1972.
- Contents:
- Aristotle's philosophy of science
- The Pythagorean orientation
- The ideal of deductive systematization
- Atomism and the concept of underlying mechanism
- Affirmation and development of Aristotle's method in the medieval period
- The debate over saving the appearances
- The Seventeenth-century attack on Aristotelian philosophy
- Newton's axiomatic method
- Analyses of the implications of the new science for a theory of scientific method
- Inductivism v. the hypothetico-deductive view of science
- Mathematical positivism and conventionalism
- Twentieth-century views on the demarcation of science.
- Notes:
- Errata slip laid in.
- "Printed ... by Butler & Tanner, Ltd. Frome and London"--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-212) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Contains:
- Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- ISBN:
- 0198850778
- 9780198850779
- 0198880774
- 9780198880776
- OCLC:
- 528403
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.