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Author : William A. Wallace
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Download or read book Causality and Scientific Explanation: Medieval and early classical science written by William A. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Wallace
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ISBN 13 : 9780819114792
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Medieval and Early Classical Science written by William A. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Wallace
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Download or read book Causality and Scientific Explanation written by William A. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Wallace
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Causality and Scientific Explanation written by William A. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wallace brings a fine intelligence and years of reflection to show how the concept of causal explanation can contribute to the cumulative growth of knowledge in science. Wallace's approach is historical as well as analytical, and consists in a careful and highly original study of how the search for causes has provided a paradigm of scientific method from its origins in the Middle Ages up to the present day. The first of two volumes poses the contemporary question and traces its origin back to the 'Posterior Analytics' of Aristotle. The author then concentrates on medieval science to document the impact of the 'Analytics' at the universities of Oxford, Paris, and Padua from the 13th to the 16th centuries, evaluating in the process the rival claims of historians of science as to the importance of these centers for the genesis of the experimental method. The volume concludes with a study of the founders of modern science from William Gilbert to Isaac Newton, showing the surprising use they made of causal concepts in their own now classical contributions.
Author : William A. Wallace
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Causality and Scientific Explanation: Medieval and early classical science written by William A. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Wallace
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Download or read book Causality and scientific explanation written by William A. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Bunge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351529749
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Causality and Modern Science written by Mario Bunge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The causal problem has become topical once again. While we are no longer causalists or believers in the universal truth of the causal principle we continue to think of causes and effects, as well as of causal and noncausal relations among them. Instead of becoming indeterminists we have enlarged determinism to include noncausal categories. And we are still in the process of characterizing our basic concepts and principles concerning causes and effects with the help of exact tools. This is because we want to explain, not just describe, the ways of things. The causal principle is not the only means of understanding the world but it is one of them.The demand for a fourth edition of this distinguished book on the subject of causality is clear evidence that this principle continues to be an important and popular area of philosophic enquiry. Non-technical and clearly written, this book focuses on the ontological problem of causality, with specific emphasis on the place of the causal principle in modern science. Mario Bunge first defines the terminology employed and describes various formulations of the causal principle. He then examines the two primary critiques of causality, the empiricist and the romantic, as a prelude to the detailed explanation of the actual assertions of causal determinism.Bunge analyzes the function of the causal principle in science, touching on such subjects as scientific law, scientific explanation, and scientific prediction. In so doing, he offers an education to layman and specialist alike on the history of a concept and its opponents. Professor William A. Wallace, author of Causality and Scientific Explanation said of an earlier edition of this work: "I regard it as a truly seminal work in this field."
Author : John Deely
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442613017
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Four Ages of Understanding written by John Deely and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization."
Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888442796
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)
Download or read book The Division and Methods of the Sciences written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401014493
Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book PSA 1974 written by Robert S. Cohen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this book, we have selected papers from symposia and contributed sessions at the fourth biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held at the University of Notre Dame on November 1-3, 1974. The meeting was lively and well-attended, and we regret that there was no way to record here the many stimulating discussions after the papers and during the informal hours. We also regret that we had in sufficient space for all the contributed papers. Even more, some of the symposia were not available: those on systems and decision theory (c. W. Churchman, P. Suppes, I. Levi), and on the Marxist philosophy of science (M. W. Wartofsky, R. S. Cohen, E. N. Hiebert). Unhappily several individual contributions to other symposia were likewise not available: I. Velikovsky in the session on his own work and the politics of science, D. Finkelstein in the session on quantum logic. Memorial minutes were read for Alan Ross Anderson (prepared by Nuel Belnap) and for Imre Lakatos (prepared by Paul Feyerabend). They initiate this volume of philosophy of science in the mid-seventies.
Author : Barry S. Kogan
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887060632
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation written by Barry S. Kogan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation examines the controversial causation issue. That causes produce their effects and can be known to do so is the view that Averroes defends in his Tahafut Al-Tahafut, where he summarizes and evaluates the debates about causation--debates that took place over several generations between the philosophers and the theologians of medieval Islam. Drawing from his Tahafut, his commentaries, and other writings, Kogan shows that Averroes' discussion of causation represents a dialogue across the generations and a rich contribution to the history of the causal controversy. Averroes responds to al-Ghazali's proto-Humean critique of the philosophers' account which treats causation as an entailment relation. In this response Averroes develops an independent position that is of philosophical interest because it clearly anticipates many of the contemporary responses to Hume associated with the singularist position. Building on this analysis, Kogan resolves many long-standing paradoxes in Averroes' treatment of miracles, eternal creation, God's causal knowing, and the theory of emanation.
Author : Mario Bunge
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Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Causality written by Mario Bunge and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven P. Marrone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856051
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste written by Steven P. Marrone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the seminal works of two early thirteenth-century philosophers, Steven P. Marrone shows how the idea of science" and the desire to be "scientific" first penetrated the scholarly discourse of the medieval West. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Peter McLaughlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139428535
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book What Functions Explain written by Peter McLaughlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It tackles such questions as: why are some things explained functionally while others are not? What do the functional explanations tell us about how these objects are conceptualized? What do we commit ourselves to when we give and take functional explanations in the life sciences and the social sciences? McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science. He discusses the history of the philosophical question of teleology, and provides a comprehensive review of the post-war literature on functional explanation. What Functions Explain provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions, and offers a positive contribution to the ongoing debate on the topic.
Author : John Losee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351472291
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Theories of Causality written by John Losee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What types of entities qualify as causes and effects? What is the relationship between cause and effect? How are causal claims to be assessed? The first question deals with the structure of the world; the second is about theories that interpret the relationship of causes to effects; while the third has to do with proper procedure in science and everyday life. This volume is a wide-ranging history of answers that have been given to these three questions, and their relationship to scientific understanding.Losee presents a number of theories of causality within a historical survey that emphasizes the interrelationship between these theories and developments in science. His analysis displays the strengths and weaknesses of these theories so as to contribute to our present understanding of causal relatedness.Among the positions discussed are those of Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, Salmon, Lewis, and Woodward. Losee's analysis displays the strengths and weaknesses of theories that identify causal relatedness with regularity of sequence, probability increase, energy transfer, exchange of a conserved quantity, counterfactual dependence, and inferability.These theories are judged, in part,by their ability to resolvedifficulties posed by instances of overdetermination,causation by omission, preventive causation, and causation by disconnection. Since applications of the theories to these instances disagree, a strategy of employing multiple concepts of causation is examined.Theories of Causality also describes the particular difficulties for causal analysis posed by quantum mechanics. One such difficulty is the prohibition against combining a causal analysis of a quantum process with a spatio-temporal description of that process.
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226482332
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Science in the Middle Ages written by David C. Lindberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, sixteen leading scholars address themselves to providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Designed to be introductory, the authors have directed their chapters to a beginning audience of diverse readers.
Author : P.A. Flach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401706069
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Abduction and Induction written by P.A. Flach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very beginning of their investigation of human reasoning, philosophers have identified two other forms of reasoning, besides deduction, which we now call abduction and induction. Deduction is now fairly well understood, but abduction and induction have eluded a similar level of understanding. The papers collected here address the relationship between abduction and induction and their possible integration. The approach is sometimes philosophical, sometimes that of pure logic, and some papers adopt the more task-oriented approach of AI. The book will command the attention of philosophers, logicians, AI researchers and computer scientists in general.
