The Cosmos Of Science: Essays of ExplorationJohn Earman The Cosmos of Science presents a cross section of the best work currently being done in history and philosophy of science, exploring fundamental questions in four major areas: history of science; foundations of mathematics and physics; induction and scientific methodology; and action and rationality. Together these essays from the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series reveal the coherence and order of the cosmos of science. |
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Isaac Newton on Empirical Success and Scientific Method | 55 |
A Peek Behind the Veil of Maya Einstein Schopenhauer and the Historical Background of the Conception of Space as a Ground for the Individuation... | 87 |
Foundations of Mathematics and Physics | 151 |
From Constructive to Predicative Mathematics | 153 |
Halfway Through the Woods Contemporary Research on Space and Time | 180 |
What Superpositions Feel Like | 224 |
Induction Scientific Methodology and the Philosophy of Science | 349 |
The Continuum of Inductive Methods Revisited | 351 |
Science Without Induction | 386 |
That Just Dont Sound Right A Plea for Real Examples | 430 |
A Logical Framework for the Notion of Natural Property | 458 |
Singular Causation and Laws of Nature | 498 |
Action and Rationality | 513 |
Action and Autonomy | 515 |
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Page 28 - History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.