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Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers - Hardcover

 
9781441128812: Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1441128816 ISBN 13: 9781441128812
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2012

Synopsis

As a discipline, the philosophy of science is as old as philosophy itself. Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of this fascinating field. Twelve specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein. All the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the present day have been philosophers of science. However, this book concentrates on modern philosophy of science, starting in the nineteenth century and offering coverage of all the leading thinkers in the field including Whewell, Mill, Reichenbach, Carnap, Popper, Feyerabend, Putnam, van Fraassen, Bloor, Latour, Hacking, Cartwright and many more. Crucially the book demonstrates how the ideas and arguments of these key thinkers have contributed to our understanding of such central issues as experience and necessity, conventionalism, logical empiricism, induction and falsification, the sociology of science, and realism. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.

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James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1441128816
ISBN 13 
9781441128812
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288
Editor
Brown Professor James Robert