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Cambridge University Press Time Chance and Reduction Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics
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Cambridge University Press Genetic Analysis A History of Genetic Thinking Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
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Cambridge University Press From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics
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Cambridge University Press Uncertain Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press Real Science
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement
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Cambridge University Press Scientific Representation
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Cambridge University Press The Metaphysics of Biology
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Cambridge University Press Good Science
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Cambridge University Press Structure and Function
Book SynopsisThis Element develops a novel account of structuralism and functionalism in terms of explanatory strategies. This reveals the possibility of integrating the two strategies; the explanatory successes of evolutionary-developmental biology essentially depend on such integration.Table of Contents1. Structure and Function; 2. Explanatory Strategies; 3. Understanding Evo-devo; 4. Integration without Subordination; 5. Gentle Polemics; References.
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Cambridge University Press Foundationalism
Book SynopsisFoundationalism is a view about the structure of knowledge and justification. The heart of the thesis is the claim that if there is any knowledge or justified belief at all, then there is a kind of knowledge and justified belief that does not require inference from something else known or justifiably believed. This Element begins by exploring abstract arguments for foundationalism and against proposed alternatives. It then explores disagreements among foundationalists about how to understand foundational knowledge and justified belief, what is plausibly included in the foundations, and what is required for legitimate inference from foundations to the rest of what we believe. The author argues for the conclusion that one can combine insights captured by different versions of foundationalism by making a distinction between ideal justification and justification that falls short of that ideal.Table of Contents1. The Structure of Knowledge and Justified Belief; 2. What Could Make A Belief Noninferentially Justified?; 3. What Belongs in the Foundations?; 4. Traditional Foundationalism and the Challenge of Skepticism; References.
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Cambridge University Press The ClassicalQuantum Correspondence
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Cambridge University Press Kuhns Intellectual Path
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Cambridge University Press ScienceEngaged Theology
Book SynopsisThis Element presents science-engaged theology that encourages theologians to collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines in a highly localised manner in order to make concrete claims with accountability and show how theological realities are entangled with the empirical world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction: memento naturam; 2. Beyond the territories of science and religion; 3. Neither serf nor queen: theology's new boldness in the university; 4. Unity and pluralism in science; 5. The sciences among the sources of theology; 6. Conclusion: advice to those who would be science-engaged theologians; References.
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
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Cambridge University Press Facts Conventions and the Levels of Selection
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Cambridge University Press The Causal Structure of Natural Selection
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Cambridge University Press Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60
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Cambridge University Press Physics and Computation
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Cambridge University Press Gauge Symmetries Symmetry Breaking and GaugeInvariant Approaches
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy of Particle Physics
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Cambridge University Press From Randomness and Entropy to the Arrow of Time
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Cambridge University Press Charles Peirce and Modern Science
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Cambridge University Press Karl Popper
Book SynopsisSir Karl Popper was a major thinker of the twentieth century, one who ? as Anthony O''Hear writes in his new Foreword ? ''has had a beneficent influence on those who have come under the spell of his thought and of the inimitable prose in which he articulates it''. It is now twenty-five years since Popper died, and thus seems ? after a quarter of a century ? an apposite moment to revaluate his impact, significance, and influence. The several chapters in this classic volume focus on many key elements of Popper''s thought and philosophy. They are by no means uncritical, but afford Popper the respect due to a philosopher who wrote always with a degree of clarity, precision, and directness rare in the academic world of his time, and ? as O''Hear puts it ? ''even rarer subsequently''. This important book constitutes an essential introduction to some of the most esteemed philosophical writing of our times.Table of ContentsIntroduction Anthony O' Hear; 1. Popper, science and rationality W. H. Newto-Smith; 2. Popper and reliabilism Peter Lipton; 3. The problem of the empirical basis E.G. Zahar; 4. 'Revolution in permanence': Popper on theory-change in science John Worrall; 5. Popper's contribution to the philosophy of probability Donald Gillies; 6. Propensities and indeterminism David Miller; 7. Popper on determinism Peter Clark; 8. Popper and the quantum theory Michael Redhead; 9. The uses of Karl Popper Gunter Wachtershauser; 10. Popper and Darwinism John Watkins; 11. Popper and the scepticism of evolutionary epistemology, or, what were human beings made for? Michael Smithurst; 12. Does Popper explain historical explanation? Kenneth Minogue; 13. The grounds for anti-historicism Graham Macdonald; 14. What use is Popper to a politician? Bryan Magee.
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Quantum Mechanics
Book SynopsisThis text has a general, non-mathematical discussion of common misconceptions around quantum mechanics, followed by a detailed mathematical discussion of how quantum field theory affects Important philosophical problems. It will be a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in the foundations and philosophy of quantum mechanics.
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Cambridge University Press Units of Selection
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Cambridge University Press Explanation in Biology
Book SynopsisThis Element examines philosophical accounts of scientific explanation, particularly those that apply to biology and the life sciences. Two main categories of scientific explanation are examined in detail ?causal explanations and non-causal explanations. The first section of this Element provides a brief history and some basics on philosophical accounts of scientific explanation. Section 2 covers causal explanation, first by discussing foundational topics in the area, such as defining causation, causal selection, and reductive explanation. This is followed by an examination of distinct types of causal explanation, including those that appeal to mechanisms pathways, and cascades. The third section covers non-causal, mathematical explanations, which have received significant attention in philosophy of biology and the life sciences. Three main types of non-causal, mathematical explanation are discussed: topological and constraint-based explanation, optimality and efficiency explanations, and minimal model explanations. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine
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Cambridge University Press Opinion Pooling
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Cambridge University Press Nonphysicalist Theories of Consciousness
Book SynopsisThis Element will introduce the main non-physicalist theories of consciousness and explain the most important arguments for them, and consider how they each respond to the scientific and other arguments in support of physicalism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of ContentsIntroduction: 1. Consciousness and physicalism; 2. Dualism; 3. Subjective idealism and phenomenalism; 4. Dual-aspect monism (or panpsychism and panprotopsychism); Conclusion-with a word on mysterianism; References.
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Cambridge University Press Quantum Gravity in a Laboratory
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Cambridge University Press Modal Naturalism
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Entailment and its History
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Cambridge University Press Structure and Function
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Cambridge University Press Quantized Detector Networks
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Cambridge University Press Quantized Detector Networks
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Cambridge University Press Biopolitics and Animal Species in NineteenthCentury Literature and Science
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy of Open Science
Book SynopsisThis Element proposes to frame openness in the Open Science [OS] movement as the effort to establish judicious connections among systems of practice, predicated on a process-oriented view of research as a tool for effective and responsible agency. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Rethinking communication: research in a changing world; 3. Rethinking practice: challenges of open science implementation; 4. Rethinking values: diversity and justice across systems of practice; 5. Rethinking the philosophy of OS; 6. Conclusion; References.
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Cambridge University Press Lakatos and the Historical Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics
Book SynopsisThis Element gives a detailed analysis of Imre Lakatos' ideas on the philosophy of mathematics. It also gives an account of how other researchers developed this approach after his death, what has been achieved so far, and what its prospects for the future might be.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Lakatos' contribution to the philosophy of mathematics; 3. Lakatos' legacy in the philosophy of mathematics I (1975–1995); 4. Lakatos' legacy in the philosophy of mathematics II (1996–2023); 5. Concluding remarks; References.
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Cambridge University Press Units of Selection
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Cambridge University Press The Dialectical Agroecologist
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Cambridge University Press Nonphysicalist Theories of Consciousness
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Cambridge University Press Modal Naturalism
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Cambridge University Press Lakatos and the Historical Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics
Book SynopsisThis Element gives a detailed analysis of Imre Lakatos' ideas on the philosophy of mathematics. It also gives an account of how other researchers developed this approach after his death, what has been achieved so far, and what its prospects for the future might be.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Lakatos' contribution to the philosophy of mathematics; 3. Lakatos' legacy in the philosophy of mathematics I (1975–1995); 4. Lakatos' legacy in the philosophy of mathematics II (1996–2023); 5. Concluding remarks; References.
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Cambridge University Press Evolution and Development
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Cambridge University Press Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy
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