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Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1961. The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. Besides the chapter on Darwin and Freud, the author discusses criticism, the fantasy element in drama and popular literature, the history of the novel, the...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1952. This book is a critical survey of the views of scientific inference that have been developed since the end of World War I. It contains some detailed exposition of ideas – notably of Keynes – that were cryptically put forward, often quoted, but nowhere explained. Part I...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 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...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1957. This book is concerned with the conflict between "Darwinism" as the Victorians called it, and Christianity, a conflict here re-stated in modern terms because it so vitally affects our understanding of human nature and human values today. The opening chapter describes...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 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...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for its solution is begun anew. Reason’s regress problem, roughly put, is that if one has good reasons...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1986. All students of social science must confront a number of important philosophical issues. This introduction to the philosophy of the social sciences provides coherent answers to questions about empiricism, explanation and rationality. It evaluates contemporary writings...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
Originally published in 1983.This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows how the transformation in world-view during the period was affected by broader historical terms....
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Second Edition is an indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science. It contains sixty-two specially commissioned entries by a leading team of international contributors. Organized...
To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
The publication in 1632 of Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the ‘scientific revolution’ and helped Galileo become the ‘father of modern science’. The Dialogue contains Galileo’s mature synthesis of astronomy, physics, and...
To Be Published September 1st 2013 by Routledge
