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  • Probability

    par Darrell P. Rowbottom ...
    Collections series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    When a doctor tells you there�s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important, if we are to make good theoretical and practical choices.In this engaging and highly accessible introduction to the philosophy of probability, Darrell Rowbottom ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Scientific Progress

    par Darrell P. Rowbottom ...
    Collections series Elements in the Philosophy of Science
    What constitutes cognitive scientific progress? This Element begins with an extensive survey of the contemporary debate on how to answer this question. It provides a blow-by-blow critical summary of the key literature on the issue over the past fifteen years, covering the central positions and arguments therein. It also draws upon older literature, where appropriate, to inform the treatment. The ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Instrument of Science

    Scientific Anti-Realism Revitalised

    par Darrell P. Rowbottom ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism, suffered from serious defects.In this book, however, Darrell P. Rowbottom develops a new form of instrumentalism, which is more sophisticated and ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

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    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... En savoir plus

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  • Postpositivism and Educational Research

    par D. C. Phillips, Nicholas C. Burbules ...
    Collections series Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research Series
    This volume presents in a forthright and lively way, an account of the philosophical position generally identified as 'Postpositivistic' that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. The discussion throughout is informed by recent developments in philosophy of science. Authors D. C. Phillips and Nicholas C. Burbules cite a number of interesting examples ... En savoir plus

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  • How Physics Makes Us Free

    par J. T. Ismael ...
    In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and rivers flowing downhill tell us that it is in principle possible to predict what each of us will do ... En savoir plus

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  • Philosophy of Social Science

    par Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable for social scientists because the choices they make in answering ... En savoir plus

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  • Freedom and Neurobiology

    Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

    par John Searle ...
    Collections series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions?In Freedom and Neurobiology, the ... En savoir plus

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  • Science Unlimited?

    The Challenges of Scientism

    Modifié par Maarten Boudry, Massimo Pigliucci ...
    All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits—about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism: the privileging of science over all other ways of knowing. Science, they warn, cannot do or explain everything, no matter what some enthusiasts believe. In Science Unlimited?, noted philosophers of ... En savoir plus

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  • As If

    Idealization and Ideals

    par Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    “Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range… [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection… A rich and illuminating book.”—Thomas Nagel, New York Review of BooksIdealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models to make sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we ... En savoir plus

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  • Realism for Realistic People

    A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science

    par Hasok Chang ...
    In this innovative book, Hasok Chang constructs a philosophy of science for 'realistic people' interested in understanding and promoting the actual practices of inquiry in science and other knowledge-focused areas of life. Inspired by pragmatist philosophy, he reconceives the very notions of reality and truth on the basis of his concept of the 'operational coherence' of epistemic activities, and ... En savoir plus

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  • Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations

    Learning and Knowledge Creation

    par Ralph Stacey ...
    Collections series Complexity and Emergence in Organizations
    The past decade has seen increasing focus on the importance of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called 'knowledge economy'. This is reflected in the popularity amongst practicing managers and organizational theorists of notions of learning, sense-making, knowledge creation, knowledge management and intellectual capital in organizations and more recently, of ... En savoir plus

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