Scientific metaphysics
Livre imprimé - Ross Don, Ladyman James, Kincaid Harold, 2013, cop. 2013
Scientific Metaphysics collects original essays by some of the world's leading philosophers of science on the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturali...
How to read historical mathematics
Livre imprimé - Wardhaugh Benjamin, cop. 2010
Writings by early mathematicians feature language and notations that are quite different from what we're familiar with today. Sourcebooks on the history of mathematics ...
Creating scientific concepts
Livre imprimé - Nersessian Nancy J., cop. 2008
How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of ...
Summa Technologiae
Livre imprimé - Lem Stanislas, 2014
In Summa Technologiae— his major work of nonfiction, first published in 1964 and now available in English for the first time— [Site de l'éditeur] Lem produced an engagi...
Invented Edens : techno-cities of the twentieth century
Livre imprimé - Kargon Robert Hugh, Molella Arthur P., cop. 2008
Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries...
Scientific models in philosophy of science
Livre imprimé - Bailer-Jones Daniela, cop. 2009
Analyse philosophique et historique de modèles scientifiques., ... an original and comprehensive philosophical analysis of how models have been used and interpreted in ...