Download or read book Logic Language and the Structure of Scientific Theories written by Wesley C. Salmon and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1994-01-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories, the second book in the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series, marks the centennial of the births of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Original essays by internationally distinguished scholars range from epistemology and philosophy of language to logic, semantics, the philosophy of physics and mathematics. In the realm of philosophy of physics it focuses upon such topics as space, time, and causality, which play fundamental roles in relativity theory and quantum mechanics.
Download or read book The Pursuing Presence of Facts written by Richard John Kosciejew and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard John Kosciejew explores the goals of any scientific enterprise and analyzes the strategies employed in reaching those goals in this well-researched book. The philosophy of science offers a perspective from which we can examine and potentially evaluate the endeavors of cognitive science. Philosophy of mind offers substantive theses about the nature of the mind and of mental activity. While these theses have not resulted from empirical investigation, they have been applied to empirical investigations in cognitive science and its predecessors. However, the roles philosophy plays in cognitive science are quite different and must be examined independently. Some philosophical views about science presented in this book are no longer widely accepted by philosophers of science, but that doesnt change the fact that they have been, and in some cases remain, influential outside of philosophy. Some of these older ideas have also provided starting points for current philosophical thinking. Join the author as he examines the connections between philosophy and science and the ideas of Newton, Einstein, Copernicus, Galileo, and other great thinkers in The Pursuing Presence of Facts.
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Download or read book Convolutions in French Mathematics 1800 1840 written by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1990-07-01 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remaking the Male Body written by Joan Tumblety and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph to explore the imagined link between male athletic prowess and national strength in interwar France. It ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy's project for masculine regeneration after the military defeat of 1940.
Download or read book La mesure de l tre written by Sylvain Roudaut and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to analyze the problem of the intensity of forms in the late Middle Ages and to show how this debate eventually gave rise to a new metaphysical project in the 14th century: the project of quantifying the different types of perfections existing in the universe – that is the project of “measuring being”. Cet ouvrage se propose d’analyser l’histoire du débat relatif à l’intensité des formes au Moyen Âge, et de retracer la manière dont il conduisit au XIVe siècle à l’émergence d’un projet métaphysique nouveau : celui de quantifier les perfections contenues dans l’univers et, ainsi, de “mesurer l’être”.
Download or read book The Comparative Reception of Relativity written by T.F Glick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-10-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25, 1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg, and Judith Goodstein!) offered both sufficient comparability to establish regulari ties in the reception of relativity and Einstein's impact in France, Spain, the United States and Italy, and sufficient contrast to suggest the salience of national inflections in the process. The interaction among the participants and the added perspectives offered by members of the audience suggested the interest of commissioning articles for a more inclusive volume which would cover as many national cases as we could muster. Only general guidelines were given to the authors: to treat the special or general theories, or both, hopefully in a multidisciplinary setting, to examine the popular reception of relativity, or Einstein's personal impact, or to survey all these topics. In a previous volume, on the 2 comparative reception of Darwinism, one of us devised a detailed set of guidelines which in general were not followed. In our opinion, the studies in this collection offer greater comparability, no doubt because relativity by its nature and its complexity offers a sharper, more easily bounded target. As in the Darwinism volume, this book concludes with an essay intended to draw together in comparative perspective some of many themes addressed by the participants.
Download or read book The Transmutations of Chymistry written by Lawrence M. DeMartino and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653–1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Académie Royale des Sciences, France’s official scientific body. By charting Homberg’s remarkable life from Java to France’s royal court, and his endeavor to create a comprehensive theory of chymistry (including alchemical transmutation), Lawrence M. Principe reveals the period’s significance and reassesses its place in the broader sweep of the history of science. Principe, the leading authority on the subject, recounts how Homberg’s radical vision promoted chymistry as the most powerful and reliable means of understanding the natural world. Homberg’s work at the Académie and in collaboration with the future regent, Philippe II d’Orléans, as revealed by a wealth of newly uncovered documents, provides surprising new insights into the broader changes chymistry underwent during, and immediately after, Homberg. A human, disciplinary, and institutional biography, The Transmutations of Chymistry significantly revises what was previously known about the contours of chymistry and scientific institutions in the early eighteenth century.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics written by Eleanor Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the state of the art in the philosophy of physics. It comprisess 54 self-contained chapters written by leading philosophers of physics at both senior and junior levels, making it the most thorough and detailed volume of its type on the market – nearly every major perspective in the field is represented. The Companion’s 54 chapters are organized into 12 parts. The first seven parts cover all of the major physical theories investigated by philosophers of physics today, and the last five explore key themes that unite the study of these theories. I. Newtonian Mechanics II. Special Relativity III. General Relativity IV. Non-Relativistic Quantum Theory V. Quantum Field Theory VI. Quantum Gravity VII. Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics VIII. Explanation IX. Intertheoretic Relations X. Symmetries XI. Metaphysics XII. Cosmology The difficulty level of the chapters has been carefully pitched so as to offer both accessible summaries for those new to philosophy of physics and standard reference points for active researchers on the front lines. An introductory chapter by the editors maps out the field, and each part also begins with a short summary that places the individual chapters in context. The volume will be indispensable to any serious student or scholar of philosophy of physics.
Download or read book Gravitation written by Abdelhafid Bounames and published by Editions Hermann. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage regroupe les cours de la troisie me e cole de physique the orique de Jijel. Il porte sur diffe rents aspects the oriques et expe rimentaux de la gravitation. Il est destine aux chercheurs et enseignants ainsi qu'aux e tudiants de Master de physique ou mathe matique inte resse s par l'approfondissement de leurs connaissances sur ce sujet. L'ouvrage contient des cours de revue de taille s sur diffe rentes approches classiques et quantiques de la gravitation comme la relativite ge ne rale avance e, la cosmologie branaire, approche des cordes pour la the orie de la gravite, la gravite quantique a boucles, approches alternatives a la gravite quantique en utilisant le principe d'incertitude ge ne ralise (GUP). Pour les aspects expe rimentaux, un cours est consacre aux techniques de de tection des ondes gravitationnelles utilise es dans les de tecteurs interfe rome triques, VIRGO (Europe) et LIGO (USA), ainsi que quelques me thodes d'analyse. Certains outils mathe matiques ne cessaires sont e galement aborde s a travers deux cours. Le premier est consacre aux structures alge briques de base et la cohomologie, avec une introduction a la the orie des de formations formelles. Le deuxie me constitue une introduction a la ge ome trie diffe rentielle, a la ge ome trie des varie te s complexes et a celle des varie te s quaternioniques en vue d'applications en physique the orique. Enfin, l'ouvrage est comple te par un cours sur le de veloppement historique du tenseur e nergie-impulsion en relativite ge ne rale.
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Download or read book Einstein s Generation written by Richard Staley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Einstein's Generation' offers a new approach to the origins of modern physics by exploring both the material culture that stimulated relativity and the reaction of Einstein's colleagues to his pioneering work.
Download or read book Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads written by James Evans and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading quantum physicists to expound on the meaning and future directions of quantum mechanics. It offers new insights from different vantage points to tackle essential questions in quantum mechanics and its interpretation. All the authors have written for a broad readership, and the resulting volume will appeal to everyone wishing to keep abreast of new developments in quantum mechanics, as well as its history and philosophy.
Download or read book Continental Philosophy of Science written by Gary Gutting and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guideto the major twentieth-century French and German philosophicalthinking on science. A comprehensive introduction by the editor provides a unifiedinterpretative survey of continental work on philosophy ofscience. Interpretative essays are complemented by key primary-sourceselections. Includes previously untranslated texts by Bergson, Bachelard,and Canguilhem and new translations of texts by Hegel andCassirer. Contributors include Terry Pinkard, Jean Gayon, RichardTieszen, Michael Friedman, Joseph Rouse, Mary Tiles,Hans-Jöerg Rheinberger, Linda Alcoff, Todd May, Axel Honneth,and Penelope Deutscher.
Download or read book Rad Hourani NEUTRALITY written by Arsenal Contemporary Art and published by Arsenal Contemporary Art. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rad Hourani’s “Neutrality” exhibition depicts the realities of an egalitarian society as a journey from childhood to adulthood through his unrestricted works of art that welcome visitors into an environment that evokes a sense of openness and possibility. Rad observes the tangible constraints imposed by categorizations, which influence the trajectory of his neutralization theory. His critique of the discriminatory basis of nationalism, racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and authoritarianism places his conceptions within a framework based on neutrality as a tool for uniting all. Humanity, as seen by Rad, is an interconnected ecosystem of cultures’ creativity expressed through music, food, dance, and art. His inquiry has led him to conclude that if we continue to marginalize with labeled codes, we will further privilege those who govern us and divide to concur. The artist’s basis maintains that all individuals are multi-faceted and unique. His perspective validates humans as equal participants in the collective sphere, where all living species are in sync. Rad’s manifestations pose existential and operational questions. His vision challenges institutional formalism and aesthetics, paving the way for portraying a neutral archetypal psyche. His ongoing conceptualization concedes the power of visual consumption to initiate conversations and share knowledge that celebrates a non-conformist sense of belonging. Through this multidisciplinary exhibition of contemporary art, Rad Hourani renders proposals for aspects of living a peaceful life via the media of painting, sculpture, photography, sound, and video at Arsenal Contemporary Art. The individual artworks are presented in six installation segments (“welcome,” “the child room,” “society,” “alert,” “human,” and “the adult room”), which together form a monumental work of art that illuminates the underlying principles of our socioeconomic systems.
Download or read book The Medieval Concept of Time written by Pasquale Porro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the changing perceptions of time in the transition from the medieval debate to early modern philosophy. Some of the foremost contemporary experts try to weave the various strands of the topic into a methodological and doctrinal whole. The book consists of 21 studies (19 in English, 2 in French) subdivided into five main sections, entitled respectively The Late Antique Legacy, The Scholastic Debate, Late Scholasticism, Time and Medicine, Early Modern Philosophy. Themes discussed include the reception of Aristotle’s doctrine of time, the Augustinian and Neoplatonic heritage, the concepts of divine eternity and angelic duration, and the particular role attributed to time in medieval and early modern medicine. This collection of studies aims at offering a comprehensive historico-doctrinal analysis of one of the most fascinating topics in western intellectual history.
Download or read book Dynamical Systems Warwick 1974 written by A. Manning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
