"Zum einen geht es in diesem Buch um die Liebe als Gegenstand der Psychoanalyse. Was hat die Psychoanalyse zum Verständnis der Liebe beigetragen? Oder ist die Liebe, solange sie sich nicht in ihrem Scheitern als Symptom präsentiert, nicht bedeutsam für das psychoanalytische Interesse? Das Thema fordert dazu auf, den Haupt- und Nebenwegen der Liebe nachzugehen, also der Normalität wie den verbotenen und verborgenen Bereichen: der sogenann ..."
"'Hume on Causation and Causal Powers', by Peter Millican Peter Millican returns us to the issue of how best to interpret Hume's iconic passages on causation and causal powers and aims to cut through the various interpretations by fixing ..."
"may not 9 Wilkerson's mention of projectibility brings out another attractive
feature of the present approach, namely, that it promises to resolve Goodman's
problem of the grue emeralds. But it all be plain sailing. As Bruce Langtry has
pointed ..."
"What is the nature of causation? How is causation linked with explanation? And can there be an adequate theory of explanation? These questions and many others are addressed in this unified and rigorous examination of the philosophical problems surrounding causation, laws and explanation. Part 1 of this book explores Hume's views on causation, theories of singular causation, and counterfactual and mechanistic approaches. Part 2 considers ..."
"What is the nature of causation? How is causation linked with explanation? And can there be an adequate theory of explanation? These questions and many others are addressed in this unified and rigorous examination of the philosophical problems surrounding causation, laws and explanation. Part 1 of this book explores Hume's views on causation, theories of singular causation, and counterfactual and mechanistic approaches. Part 2 considers ..."
"... Nature of Philosophy (1998). Theodore Arabatzis is associate professor in the
department of philosophy and history of science at the university of athens. he is
the author of Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical
Entities (2006) and co-editor of the journal Metascience. Roger Ariew is professor
and Chair, department of philosophy, university of south florida, author of
Descartes and the Last Scholastics ..."
"Wilson, Edward O. and Wilson, D.S. (2007) “Rethinking the Theoretical
Foundations of Sociobiology,” Quarterly Review of Biology 82: 327–348. Further
reading and Alex Rosenberg, “Fitness,” in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The. Besides
the works cited above, many important papers appear in Elliott Sober(ed.),
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, 3rd edn (Cambridge, MA:MIT Press,
2006). Forthemain alternatives in the debate over the de ..."
"This is a guide to the key figures in the Philosophy of Science from Plato and Aristotle through to Popper, Puttnam and Cartwright. 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 su ..."
"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 p ..."
"... Bill Demopoulos, Gerald Doppelt, Mauro Dorato, Igor Douven, Alice Drewery,
John Earman, Brian Ellis, Jan Faye, Steven French, Maria Carla Galavotti, ...
David Papineau, Nils Roll-Hansen, Nils-Eric Sahlin, Howard Sankey, Christoff
Schmidt-Petri, Matti Sintonen, Brian Skyrms, Wolfgang Spohn, David ... Preface.
Preface."
"For a rigorous but accessible introduction to probability see B. v. Gnedenko and A. Y. khinchin, An Elementary Introduction to the Theory of Probability (New York: Dover, 1962). For more on the logical interpretation of probability see Studies in ..."
"Philosophy of science has always been an integral part of philosophy, and since the beginning of the 20h century it has developed its own structure and its fair share of technical vocabulary and problems.Philosophy of Science A-Z gives you concise, accurate and illuminating accounts of key positions, concepts, arguments and figures in the philosophy of science. It helps you to understand the current debates, explains their historical de ..."
"It is the aim of Stathis Psillos in this book to explain the key terms of the
vocabulary of contemporary philosophy of science. Readers should be able to
use the book as with others in the series, to help them orient themselves through
the subject ..."
"An alphabetically arranged guide to the philosophy of science. While philosophy of science has always been an integral part of philosophy, since the beginning of the twentieth century it has developed its own structure and its fair share of technical vocabulary and problems. Philosophy of Science A-Z gives concise, accurate and illuminating accounts of key positions, concepts, arguments and figures in the philosophy of science. It aids ..."
"Edited by W.H.Newton-Smith Balliol College, Oxford Real History Martin Bunzl Brute Science Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks Verificationism Cheryl Misak Living in a Technological Culture Mary Tiles and Hans Oberdiek The Rational and ..."
"Carnap, R. (1966) Philosophical Foundations of Physics, New York: Basic Books.
Carnap, R. (1968) 'Inductive Intuition and Inductive Logic', in I. Lakatos (ed.) The
Problem of Inductive Logic, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company.
Carnap, R. (1974) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, New York: Basic
Books. Carnot, S. (1824) 'Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire', in E. Mendoza
(ed.) Reflections on the Motive Powe ..."