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Title Philosophy of science today / edited by Peter Clark and Katherine Hawley
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction 1 -- -- 1 The Logic of Success 11 -- Kevin T. Kelly -- 2 The Theory of Knowledge: Saving Epistemology from the -- Epistemologists 39 -- Adam Morton -- 3 The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate 59 -- Stathis Psillos -- 4 'New Age' Philosophies of Science: Constructivism, Feminism -- and Postmodernism 83 -- Noretta Koertge -- 5 Causation and Pre-emption 100 -- Ned Hall and L A. Paul -- 6 Philosophy of Mind 131 -- John Campbell -- 7 Philosophy of Biology 147 -- Robert Brandon and Alex Rosenberg -- 8 Philosophy of Mathematics 181 -- Stewart Shapiro -- 9 Geometry and Motion 201 -- Gordon Belot -- 10 Indeterminacy and Entanglement: The Challenge of Quantum -- Mechanics 236 -- Jeffrey Bub -- 11 Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory 255 -- Nick Huggett -- 12 Interpreting Theories: The Case of Statistical Mechanics 276 -- Lawrence Sklar -- -- Index 291
Notes Originally published: 2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Author Clark, Peter, Ph. D.
Hawley, Katherine (Katherine Jane)
LC no. 2003271821
ISBN 0199250545 hardback acid-free paper
0199250553 paperback acid-free paper