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The Ashgate companion to contemporary philosophy of physics

, 2016
Contents: Preface Advancing the philosophy of physics, Dean Rickles Philosophy of quantum mechanics, David Wallace A field guide to recent work on the foundations of statistical mechanics, Roman Frigg Philosophical aspects of quantum information theory ...
D. Rickles
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Reclaiming Reality: A Critical Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy

, 1989
Preface 1. Critical Realism, Social Relations and Arguing for Socialism 2. Realism in the Natural Sciences 3. Feyerabend and Bachelard: Two Philosophies of Science 4. Philiosophies as Ideologies of Science: A Contribution to the Critique of Positivism 5.
R. Bhaskar
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Contemporary Systematic Philosophies

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1970
During the past decade, taxonomists have been engaged in a controversy over the proper methods and foundations of biological classification. Although methodologically inclined taxonomists had been discussing these issues for years, the emergence of an energetic and vocal school of taxonomists, headed by Sokal and Sneath, increased the urgency of the ...
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Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science, 1951
It may be that the overworn analogy between the history of philosophy and a river system has still a value, and if so, it is a value beyond that usually claimed for it. The grosser likenesses between the stream of history and the stream of geography have been, it is true, too often pointed out, while the subtler similarities are neglected. For instance,
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The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

, 2018
In his monumental 1687 work "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", known familiarly as the "Principia", Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical ...
I. Newton, A. Shapiro
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The Contemporary Significance of Chinese Philosophy

Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 1986
By Chinese philosophy I mean the main streams of traditional Chinese philosophy such as Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism and the contemporary reconstruction of the philosophical insights of these schools. Are they still meaningful for us today? Before I can answer the question, first of all I would like to give a very brief review of the conditions ...
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Contemporary British Philosophy

Philosophy, 1958
Before taking this book with the seriousness which at least parts of it deserve, it is necessary to dispose of a criticism which is basically frivolous but has already been made too often to be ignored. “Contemporary British Philosophy”—the title conjures up the names that everyone is currently bandying about (“this is going to be another Flew book ...
Morris Weitz, H. D. Lewis
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Against Contemporary Philosophy

Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, 2023
L. Groarke
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A New Philosophy of Society

, 2019
Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an Moreover rawls extends this method of justice deciding on its own affairs within.
Manuel Delanda
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Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy

, 1961
The Study of Man. By Michael Polanyi. Price, $1.75. Pp. 102. University of Chicago Press, 5750 Ellis Ave., Chicago 37, 1959. One subtitle to Polanyi's challenging and fascinating book might be The Evolution and Natural History of Error , for Polanyi is ...
W. Bean
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