This book highlights and develops a hitherto neglected area of Hans Blumenbergs contributions, i.e., history and philosophy of science. It covers both Blumenbergs works on the history of ideas and conceptual change, as well as his studies on transf...Daugiau...
This book highlights and develops a hitherto neglected area of Hans Blumenbergs contributions, i.e., history and philosophy of science. It covers both Blumenbergs works on the history of ideas and conceptual change, as well as his studies on transf...Daugiau...
This book collects a variety of short essays on Stephen Gaukrogers thought, by leading scholars, both senior and junior. Stephen Gaukroger (1950-2023) was one of the preeminent specialists of early modern science and philosophy, particularly their i...Daugiau...
This book collects a variety of short essays on Stephen Gaukrogers thought, by leading scholars, both senior and junior. Stephen Gaukroger (1950-2023) was one of the preeminent specialists of early modern science and philosophy, particularly their i...Daugiau...
This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically attributed to its simultaneously philosophical and historical sy...Daugiau...
This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically attributed to its simultaneously philosophical and historical sy...Daugiau...
This book explores Rene Descartess attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program. Despite his early rationalistic epistemolo...Daugiau...
This book explores Rene Descartess attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program. Despite his early rationalistic epistemolo...Daugiau...
This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses the range theory of probability. It offers a novel account of the foundations of probability, an acc...Daugiau...
This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses the range theory of probability. It offers a novel account of the foundations of probability, an acc...Daugiau...
This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it. Agent Orange contains a contaminant known as TCDD. It was the most widely used defoliant from 1965 - 1970 and became one of three major tactical herbicides used i...Daugiau...
This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it. Agent Orange contains a contaminant known as TCDD. It was the most widely used defoliant from 1965 - 1970 and became one of three major tactical herbicides used i...Daugiau...
This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; second, analyses of the structural conditions for science and its...Daugiau...
This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. Written by a diverse...Daugiau...
This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. Written by a diverse...Daugiau...
This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his na...Daugiau...
This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his na...Daugiau...
This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolffs psychology written by leading international scholars. Christian Wolff is one of the towering figures in 18th-century Western thought. In the l...Daugiau...
This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolffs psychology written by leading international scholars. Christian Wolff is one of the towering figures in 18th-century Western thought. In the l...Daugiau...
This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac. While space is a central and challenging issue for early modern empiricists, literature on this topi...Daugiau...
This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac. While space is a central and challenging issue for early modern empiricists, literature on this topi...Daugiau...
This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptu...Daugiau...
This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptu...Daugiau...
This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of Americas most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edisons active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a...Daugiau...
This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of Americas most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edisons active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a...Daugiau...
This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instru...Daugiau...
This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instru...Daugiau...
This book investigates Hermann Weyls work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards. It presents new material and opens the philosophical problem of space anew, crossing the disciplines of mathematics, history of science and philosophy.&n...Daugiau...
This book investigates Hermann Weyls work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards. It presents new material and opens the philosophical problem of space anew, crossing the disciplines of mathematics, history of science and philosophy.&n...Daugiau...
This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieva...Daugiau...
