The New Philosophy of Modern Science
Author | : William Walker Strong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781021679345 |
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Author | : William Walker Strong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781021679345 |
Author | : William Walker Strong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Philosophy and science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : W. W. Strong; B. S. |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781333628864 |
Excerpt from The New Philosophy of Modern Science The great increase in the range and the density of our knowledge has correspondingly and terribly increased the technique of civilization. The butcher and the baker can hold up a city by a strike but the light producing candlestick maker is less potent. The mechanism of civilization is top heavy and threatens to crush us all when it falls. All kinds of philosophies become pandemic by the contagion and repeti tion of words, phrases or abbreviated allegories. Pandemics of this sort follow each other in quick and alarmingly unex pected succession in all the phases of human endeavor. On account of their lightning Swiftness and our inability to know how and where they will strike, it is almost impossible to ad minister an antidote before the evjl is effected. The only promising method of prevention appears to be the universal inculcation of a saner philosophy. The rise and fall of man and his empire will constitute a laboratory problem for many centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Werner Heisenberg |
Publisher | : Penguin Books, Limited (UK) |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Physics |
ISBN | : 9780141182155 |
Heisenberg explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his uncertainty principle. He reveals how words can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics, with philosophical implications for the nature of reality.
Author | : Eric Scerri |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2016-10-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0190233001 |
In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified approach in which science is seen as a living and evolving single organism. Instead of scientific revolutions featuring exceptionally gifted individuals, Scerri argues that the "little people" contribute as much as the "heroes" of science. To do this he examines seven case studies of virtually unknown chemists and physicists in the early 20th century quest to discover the structure of the atom. They include the amateur scientist Anton van den Broek who pioneered the notion of atomic number as well as Edmund Stoner a then physics graduate student who provided the seed for Pauli's Exclusion Principle. Another case is the physicist John Nicholson who is virtually unknown and yet was the first to propose the notion of quantization of angular momentum that was soon put to good use by Niels Bohr. Instead of focusing on the logic and rationality of science, Scerri elevates the role of trial and error and multiple discovery and moves beyond the notion of scientific developments being right or wrong. While criticizing Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific revolutions he agrees with Kuhn that science is not drawn towards an external truth but is rather driven from within. The book will enliven the long-standing debate on the nature of science, which has increasingly shied away from the big question of "what is science?"
Author | : Samir Okasha |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198745583 |
What is science? -- Scientific inference -- Explanation in science -- Realism and anti-realism -- Scientific change and scientific revolutions -- Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology -- Science and its critics.
Author | : James Ladyman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-08-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134597908 |
Few can imagine a world without telephones or televisions; many depend on computers and the Internet as part of daily life. Without scientific theory, these developments would not have been possible. In this exceptionally clear and engaging introduction to philosophy of science, James Ladyman explores the philosophical questions that arise when we reflect on the nature of the scientific method and the knowledge it produces. He discusses whether fundamental philosophical questions about knowledge and reality might be answered by science, and considers in detail the debate between realists and antirealists about the extent of scientific knowledge. Along the way, central topics in philosophy of science, such as the demarcation of science from non-science, induction, confirmation and falsification, the relationship between theory and observation and relativism are all addressed. Important and complex current debates over underdetermination, inference to the best explaination and the implications of radical theory change are clarified and clearly explained for those new to the subject.
Author | : Charles Taliaferro |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2011-11-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199563349 |
This engaging collection of essays locates the debate between theism and naturalism in the broader context of reflection on imagination and aesthetics. The eleven original essays will be of interest to anyone who is fascinated by the power of imagination and the role of aesthetics in deciding between worldviews or philosophies of nature.
Author | : Michael Strevens |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1631491385 |
“The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. “With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style” (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science’s history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational—and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.
Author | : David Wallace |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198814321 |
Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. This book explores the core topics in philosophy of physics, and discusses their relevance for both scientists and philosophers.