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Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century – Four Central Themes de D Gillies

Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century – Four Central Themes

Autor D Gillies
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 1993
This book traces the development during the twentieth century of four central themes in the philosophy of science: inductivism, conventionalism, the nature of observation, and the demarcation between science and metaphysics. The movement of ideas is placed against the background of the lives of the philosophers and of contemporary developments in science. The four themes have been chosen because of their central importance, and are expounded in a way which does not presuppose any previous knowledge of philosophy or science. The book thus constitutes an excellent introduction to the philosophy of science.
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ISBN-13: 9780631183587
ISBN-10: 0631183582
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

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undergraduates in philosophy, science or the social sciences

Notă biografică

As an undergraduate, Donald Gillies studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge. In 1966 he began graduate studies in Professor Sir Karl Popper's department at the London School of Economics, and he completed his PhD on the Foundations of Probability in 1970 with Professor Imre Lakatos as supervisor. From 1968 to 1971, he was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. In 1971 he joined the staff of the University of London, and is at present Reader in History and Philosophy of Science at King's College London. In 1982, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and from 1982 to 1985 edited the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

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Traces the development, during the 20th century, of the four central themes in the philosophy of science: inductivism and its critics; conventionalism and the Duhem-Quine thesis; the nature of observation; and the demarcation between science and metaphysics.