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Cosmos of Science: Essays and Exploration
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Earman, John, Author.
- Series:
- University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
- University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions.
- Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
- Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (598 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] University of Pittsburgh Press 1998
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Annotation The inaugural volume of the series, devoted to the work of philosopher Adolf Gruuml;nbaum, encompasses the philosophical problems of space, time, and cosmology, the nature of scientific methodology, and the foundations of psychoanalysis.
- Contents:
- What's in Kepler's new astronomy? / Bernard R. Goldstein
- Experiment, community, and the constitution of nature in the seventeenth century / Daniel Garber
- Isaac Newton on empirical success and scientific method / William Harper
- Peek behind the veil of Maya : Einstein, Schopenhauer, and the historical background of the conception of space as a ground for the individuation of physical systems / Don Howard
- From constructive to predictive mathematics / Geoffrey Hellman
- Halfway through the woods : contemporary research on space and time / Carlo Rovelli
- What superpositions feel like / David Z Albert
- Preparation problem in quantum mechanics / Linda Wessels
- Schrödinger's cat and other entanglements of quantum mechanics / Jeffrey Bub
- Deterministic chaos and the nature of chance / John A. Winnie
- Models, the Brownian motion, and the disunities of physics / R.I.G. Hughes
- Continuum of inductive methods revisited / Sandy L. Zabell
- Science without induction / Frederick Suppe
- That just don't sound right : a plea for real examples / David L. Hull
- Logical framework for the notion of Natural property / J. Michael Dunn
- Singular causation and laws of nature / David M. Armstrong
- Action and autonomy / Fred Dretske
- Explanations involving rationality / Peter Railton.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822972013
- 0822972018
- OCLC:
- 1446198562
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