Philosophy of Science Today offers a state-of-the-art guide to this fast-developing area. An eminent international team of authors covers a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy and the sciences, including causation, realism, methodology, epistemology, and the philosophical foundations of physics, biology, and psychology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: Kevin T. Kelly: The Logic of Success
- 2: Adam Morton: The Theory of Knowledge: Saving Epistemology from the Epistemologists
- 3: Stathis Psillos: The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate
- 4: Noretta Koertge: 'New Age' Philosophies of Science: Constructivism, Feminism, and Postmodernism
- 5: Ned Hall and L. A. Paul: Causation and Pre-emption
- 6: John Campbell: Philosophy of Mind
- 7: Robert Brandon and Alex Rosenberg: Philosophy of Biology
- 8: Stewart Shapiro: Philosophy of Mathematics
- 9: Gordon Belot: Geometry and Motion
- 10: Jeffrey Bub: Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum Mechanics
- 11: Nick Huggett: Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
- 12: Lawrence Sklar: Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical Mechanics
- Index
