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  • The Incommensurability Thesis

    par Howard Sankey ...
    Collections series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The book examines the theory that different scientific theories may be incommensurable because of conceptual variance. The book presents a critique of the thesis and examines and discusses the arguments for the theory, acknowledging and debating the ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science

    par Howard Sankey ...
    Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent world which we inhabit. This book articulates and defends that position. In presenting a clear formulation and addressing the major arguments for scientific realism Sankey appeals to philosophers beyond the community of, ... En savoir plus

    $107.17 CAD

  • Rationality, Relativism and Incommensurability

    par Howard Sankey ...
    Collections series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, this volume brings together a series of essays on the philosophy of science and responds to the "crisis of rationality" which evolved from the denial of both a stable methodology and a common language for science. Howard Sankey holds that important insights about scientific methodology and rationality may be gleaned from the historical approach, from which the existence of ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Theories of Scientific Method

    an Introduction

    par Robert Nola, Howard Sankey ...
    What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? Robert Nola and Howard Sankey seek to provide answers to these fundamental questions in their exploration of the major recent theories of scientific method. Although for many scientists their understanding of method is something they just pick up in the course of being trained, ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Properties, Powers and Structures

    Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism

    Modifié par Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, Howard Sankey ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
    While the phrase "metaphysics of science" has been used from time to time, it has only recently begun to denote a specific research area where metaphysics meets philosophy of science—and the sciences themselves. The essays in this volume demonstrate that metaphysics of science is an innovative field of research in its own right. The principle areas covered are:The modal metaphysics of properties: ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD

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  • The Last Word

    par Thomas Nagel ...
    If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential ... En savoir plus

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  • Husserl

    par David Woodruff Smith ...
    Collections series The Routledge Philosophers
    This second edition of David Woodruff Smith’s stimulating introduction to Husserl has been fully updated and includes a new ninth chapter featuring contemporary issues confronting Husserl’s phenomenology. It introduces the whole of Edmund Husserl’s thought, demonstrating his influence on philosophy of mind and language, on ontology and epistemology, as well as ethical theory, and on philosophy of ... En savoir plus

    $53.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    par Øystein Linnebo ...
    Collections series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading contemporary scholarsMathematics is one of humanity's most successful yet puzzling endeavors. It is a model of precision and objectivity, but appears distinct from the empirical sciences because it seems to deliver nonexperiential knowledge of a nonphysical reality of numbers, sets, and functions. How ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD

  • Reason, Truth and History

    par Hilary Putnam ...
    Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality. His aim is to break down the fixed categories of thought which have always appeared to define and constrain the permissible solutions to these problems. ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Quine

    par Christopher Hookway ...
    Collections series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary debates in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.Hookway traces the development of Quine's work from ... En savoir plus

    $31.00 CAD

  • Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy

    Early Philosophical Papers

    par Richard Rorty ...
    This volume presents a selection of the philosophical essays which Richard Rorty wrote during the first decade of his career, and complements four previous volumes of his papers published by Cambridge University Press. In this long neglected body of work, which many leading philosophers still consider to be his best, Rorty develops his views on the nature and scope of philosophy in a manner which ... En savoir plus

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  • Brandom

    par Ronald Loeffler ...
    Collections series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned contemporary American philosophers, discussed widely in analytic as well as continental philosophical communities on both sides of the Atlantic. His innovative approach to language and rationality combines the philosophies of language and mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic with intriguing interpretations of historical figures such as Kant, Hegel, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD