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An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science

Author : C. Truesdell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461381851
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science written by C. Truesdell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, after the agreeable fatigues of solicitation, Mrs Millamant set out a long bill of conditions subject to which she might by degrees dwindle into a wife, Mirabell offered in return the condition that he might not thereby be beyond measure enlarged into a husband. With age and experience in research come the twin dangers of dwindling into a philosopher of science while being enlarged into a dotard. The philosophy of science, I believe, should not be the preserve of senile scientists and of teachers of philosophy who have themselves never so much as understood the contents of a textbook of theoretical physics, let alone done a bit of mathematical research or even enjoyed the confidence of a creating scientist. On the latter count I run no risk: Any reader will see that I am untrained (though not altogether unread) in classroom philosophy. Of no ignorance of mine do I boast, indeed I regret it, but neither do I find this one ignorance fatal here, for few indeed of the great philosophers to explicate whose works hodiernal professors of phil osophy destroy forests of pulp were themselves so broadly and specially trained as are their scholiasts. In attempt to palliate the former count I have chosen to collect works written over the past thirty years, some of them not published before, and I include only a few very recent essays.

An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science

Author : C. TRUESDELL
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781461246121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (461 download)

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An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science

Author : C. Truesdell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461381860
Total Pages : 676 pages
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Download or read book An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science written by C. Truesdell and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An idiot's fugitive essays on science : methods, criticism, training, circumstances

Author : Clifford Ambrose Truesdell (mathématicien-physicien.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783540912217
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book An idiot's fugitive essays on science : methods, criticism, training, circumstances written by Clifford Ambrose Truesdell (mathématicien-physicien.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science

Author : Clifford Truesdell
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ISBN 13 : 9783540907039
Total Pages : 654 pages
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Download or read book An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science written by Clifford Truesdell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mathematics and Scientific Representation

Author : Christopher Pincock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190208570
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics and Scientific Representation written by Christopher Pincock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be for mathematics and science. In this book Christopher Pincock tackles this perennial question in a new way by asking how mathematics contributes to the success of our best scientific representations. In the first part of the book this question is posed and sharpened using a proposal for how we can determine the content of a scientific representation. Several different sorts of contributions from mathematics are then articulated. Pincock argues that each contribution can be understood as broadly epistemic, so that what mathematics ultimately contributes to science is best connected with our scientific knowledge. In the second part of the book, Pincock critically evaluates alternative approaches to the role of mathematics in science. These include the potential benefits for scientific discovery and scientific explanation. A major focus of this part of the book is the indispensability argument for mathematical platonism. Using the results of part one, Pincock argues that this argument can at best support a weak form of realism about the truth-value of the statements of mathematics. The book concludes with a chapter on pure mathematics and the remaining options for making sense of its interpretation and epistemology. Thoroughly grounded in case studies drawn from scientific practice, this book aims to bring together current debates in both the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of science and to demonstrate the philosophical importance of applications of mathematics.

Deflating Existential Consequence

Author : Jody Azzouni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198036241
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Deflating Existential Consequence written by Jody Azzouni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we must take mathematical statements to be true, must we also believe in the existence of abstracta eternal invisible mathematical objects accessible only by the power of pure thought? Jody Azzouni says no, and he claims that the way to escape such commitments is to accept (as an essential part of scientific doctrine) true statements which are about objects that don't exist in any sense at all. Azzouni illustrates what the metaphysical landscape looks like once we avoid a militant Realism which forces our commitment to anything that our theories quantify. Escaping metaphysical straitjackets (such as the correspondence theory of truth), while retaining the insight that some truths are about objects that do exist, Azzouni says that we can sort scientifically-given objects into two categories: ones which exist, and to which we forge instrumental access in order to learn their properties, and ones which do not, that is, which are made up in exactly the same sense that fictional objects are. He offers as a case study a small portion of Newtonian physics, and one result of his classification of its ontological commitments, is that it does not commit us to absolute space and time.

Essays on the History of Mechanics

Author : Antonio Becchi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303488091X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the History of Mechanics written by Antonio Becchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of mechanics, and more particularly, the history of mechanics applied to constructions, constitutes a field of research that is relatively recent. This volume, together with the recent publication "Towards a History of Construction", is intended as an homage to the two eminent scholars who made a determinant contribution to the history of mechanics: Edoardo Benvenuto and Clifford Truesdell.

Leonhard Euler

Author : Ronald S. Calinger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196400
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Leonhard Euler written by Ronald S. Calinger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him in the company of Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. Drawing chiefly on Euler's massive published works and correspondence, which fill more than eighty volumes so far, this biography sets Euler's work in its multilayered context--personal, intellectual, institutional, political, cultural, religious, and social. It is a story of nearly incessant accomplishment, from Euler's fundamental contributions to almost every area of pure and applied mathematics--especially calculus, number theory, notation, optics, and celestial, rational, and fluid mechanics--to his advancements in shipbuilding, telescopes, ballistics, cartography, chronology, and music theory. The narrative takes the reader from Euler's childhood and education in Basel through his first period in St. Petersburg, 1727-41, where he gained a European reputation by solving the Basel problem and systematically developing analytical mechanics. Invited to Berlin by Frederick II, Euler published his famous Introductio in analysin infinitorum, devised continuum mechanics, and proposed a pulse theory of light. Returning to St. Petersburg in 1766, he created the analytical calculus of variations, developed the most precise lunar theory of the time that supported Newton's dynamics, and published the best-selling Letters to a German Princess--all despite eye problems that ended in near-total blindness. In telling the remarkable story of Euler and how his achievements brought pan-European distinction to the Petersburg and Berlin academies of sciences, the book also demonstrates with new depth and detail the central role of mathematics in the Enlightenment."--Publisher's description.

Philosophy History Sophistry

Author : Dennis Rohatyn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004495916
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy History Sophistry written by Dennis Rohatyn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-modernism believes in nothing, not even unbelief. Hence it is a genial version of nihilism, and the flip side of despair. Like skepticism (from which it descends), it is healthy insofar as it rejects all dogmas; but unhealthy insofar as it substitutes its own, while eating its own essence. This book diagnoses this disease, and offers irony as its cure. What failure of nerve did to Hellenism, strength of character must do for the decline of the best. Humor, laughter, and detachment are the gifts of historical art, and of Socratic science. As we take refuge in the myth of truth, we must realize that there is no truth in myth, and no comfort in illusion, except the lie of immortality.

The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics

Author : Chi-Sing Man
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402023081
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics written by Chi-Sing Man and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his voluminous and in?uential writings, editorial activities, organi- tional leadership, intellectual acumen, and strong sense of history, Clifford - brose Truesdell III (1919–2000) was the main architect for the renaissance of - tional continuum mechanics since the middle of the twentieth century. The present collection of 42 essays and research papers pays tribute to this man of mathematics, science, and natural philosophy as well as to his legacy. The ?rst ?ve essays by B. D. Coleman, E. Giusti, W. Noll, J. Serrin, and D. Speiser were texts of addresses given by their authors at the Meeting in memory of Clifford Truesdell, which was held in Pisa in November 2000. In these essays the reader will ?nd personal reminiscences of Clifford Truesdell the man and of some of his activities as scientist, author, editor, historian of exact sciences, and principal founding member of the Society for Natural Philosophy. The bulk of the collection comprises 37 research papers which bear witness to the Truesdellian legacy. These papers cover a wide range of topics; what ties them together is the rational spirit. Clifford Truesdell, in his address upon receipt of a Birkhoff Prize in 1978, put the essence of modern continuum mechanics succinctly as “conceptual analysis, analysis not in the sense of the technical term but in the root meaning: logical criticism, dissection, and creative scrutiny.

Science and Partial Truth

Author : Newton C. A. da Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019515651X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Science and Partial Truth written by Newton C. A. da Costa and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the consequences of adopting a 'pragmatic' notion of truth in the philosophy of science. This framework describes issues to do with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.

Beyond History of Science

Author : Elizabeth Garber
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934223119
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Beyond History of Science written by Elizabeth Garber and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on the intellectual development of the sciences, their relationships with technology, and their place in culture in general including a proposed realignment of science, technology, and art.

A New Science Of Representation

Author : Harry Redner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720491
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book A New Science Of Representation written by Harry Redner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with representation in science, politics and art both in its historical dimensions and in its contemporary expression. It aims to reveal the current trends of culture and guide these towards the goal of a future culture for the coming global technological civilization.

Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science

Author : Ilie Pȃrvu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319166557
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science written by Ilie Pȃrvu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of studies by Romanian philosophers, addressing foundational issues currently debated in contemporary philosophy of science. It offers a historical survey of the tradition of scientific philosophy in Romania. It examines some problems in the foundations of logic, mathematics, linguistics, the natural and social sciences. Among the more specific topics, it discusses scientific explanation, models, and mechanisms, as well as memory, artifacts, and rules of research. The book is useful to those interested in the philosophy of real science, but also to those interested in Romanian philosophy.

Essential Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists

Author : Thomas J. Pence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108670369
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Essential Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists written by Thomas J. Pence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is geared toward students who have an undergraduate degree or extensive coursework in engineering or the physical sciences and who wish to develop their understanding of the essential topics of applied mathematics. The methods covered in the chapters form the core of analysis in engineering and the physical sciences. Readers will learn the solutions, techniques, and approaches that they will use as academic researchers or industrial R&D specialists. For example, they will be able to understand the fundamentals behind the various scientific software packages that are used to solve technical problems (such as the equations describing the solid mechanics of complex structures or the fluid mechanics of short-term weather prediction and long-term climate change), which is crucial to working with such codes successfully. Detailed and numerous worked problems help to ensure a clear and well-paced introduction to applied mathematics. Computational challenge problems at the end of each chapter provide students with the opportunity for hands-on learning and help to ensure mastery of the concepts. Adaptable to one- and two-semester courses.

Doing Science: In The Light Of Philosophy

Author : Bunge Mario Augusto
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813202793
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Doing Science: In The Light Of Philosophy written by Bunge Mario Augusto and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, since some of them favor research whereas others hamper it. For instance, whereas subjectivism leads to navel gazing and uncontrolled fantasy, realism encourages us to explore the world and check our conjectures. This book examines science in the making, a process it illustrates with many examples from the natural, social, and biosocial sciences. Therefore it centers on the research process and its philosophical presuppositions. It claims that the latter constitutes a sort of matrix for conceiving and nurturing scientific projects.