History and Philosophy of Science reprints a distinguished selection of important texts published in this field over the last century. This set presents a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history and philosophy of science.
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was...
Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever. Among other things this book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, recent discoveries in the solar system, stellar...
Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1982. This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology’s self-understanding. Recently philosophers of science have broken with the empiricism once fundamental to their discipline, and have sought...
Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social...
Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Philosophical Society were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume shows that a study of the work and membership of these groups is essential before any realistic assessment can be...
Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1963.This volume provides a rigorous interpretation that portrays science and religion in their actualities as personal, communal and cultural phenomena involving different concerns, conceptions and modes of inquiry. The role of key aspects of their life and thought are...
Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1966. This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. Part One is concerned with the logic underlying empirical discourse before its subjection to the various constraints, imposed by the...
Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and intentionality, and the galilean, which takes causal explanation as primary. It then traces the complex history of these competing traditions...
Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1975. The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an abstract level by social scientists, and their facts, the material organized in an empirical analysis. The author draws on material from several disciplines to explore...
Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Following on from British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, this volume covers six eminent British scientists whose work and personality have not receded into the same depth of perspective as their predecessors of the Nineteenth Century, but the tremendous changes following the two world wars...
Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
