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"One of the first testimonials to knowledge of the limits of human understanding" (DSB I, p. 80). An encyclopedic survey of the pseudo-sciences by the Renaissance Nietzsche. Discusses alchemy, astrology, augury, chiromancy, divination, dream interpretation, madness, witchcraft, and whoring amongst a hundred other topics.
Contains four sections: The Nature and Validity of Formal Logic with papers by Ewing, Schiller, Mace, and R. Knight; The Coherence Theory of Goodness with papers by Paton, W. D. Ross, & J. L. Stocks; Actuality and Value with papers by Laird, Hicks, and de Burgh; Indetermincay and Indeterminism with papers by Broad, Eddington, & Braithwaite.
Contains Bergson's "L'ame et le corps," Poincaré's "Les conceptions nouvelles de la matière," and 6 other essays.
The classic exposition of scientific method in medicine.
OCLC locates copies only at Berkeley and Woodstock.
Between 1855 and 1883 Brooks was at the State Normal Schollat Millsersville, Pennsylvania, serving variously as Professor Grammara and Rhetoric, Professor of Mathematics, and Principal, which he was at the time this book was published. He went on to become Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia.
Contains conversations with Heisenberg, Rosenfeld, Dirac, Penrose, Wheeler, von Weizsäcker, Prigogine, Bohm, and a symposium with Robert Rosen, Howard Hunt Pattee, and Raymond L. Somorjai.
One of the great books on the philosophy and methodology of scientific inquiry, by a practising physicist. Not as heralded these days as it should be.
Contains Musatti's "La psicologia sperimentale nell'opera di A. Aliotta.
A sophisticated philosophical examination of experimental and statistical methodology.
Contains Hempel's "Explanation in Science and in History"; Wilfrid Sellars's "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man"; Michael Scriven's "The Frontiers of Psychology: Psychoanalysis and Parapsychology"; Ernst Caspari's "On the Conceptual Basis of the Biological Sciences"; Adolf Grünbaum's "The Nature of Time"; Paul Feyerabend's "Problems of Metaphysics".
Contains Herbert Simon's "Thinking by Computers" and "Scientific Discovery and the Psychology of Problem Solving"; Dudley Shapere's "Meaning and Scientific Change"; Syvain Bromberger's "Why-Questions"; Carl Hempel's "Recent Problems of Induction"; Wesley C. Salmon's " The Foundations of Scientific Inference"; Joseph T. Clark's "The Physiognomy of Physics" and "Science and Some Other Components of Intellectual Culture"; Thomas Gold's "Cosmic Processes and the Nature of Time"; Henry Margenau's "The Philosophical Legacy of the Quantum Theory".
Contains Grover Maxwell's "Theories, Perception, and Structural Realism"; Mary Hesse's "Is There and Independent Observation Language"; Abner Shimony's "Scientific Inference"; Wesley C. Salmon's "Statistical Explanation"; Norwood Hanson's "A Picture Theory of Theory Meaning"; Feyerabend's "Problems of Empiricism, Part II".
Contains Robert Leeper's "Theories of Personality"; Harlow's "Learning Theories"; J. J. Gibson's "Theories of Perception"; David Krech's "Cognition and Motivation in Psychological Theory"; David Rioch's "Theories of Psychotherapy"; McCulloch's "Brain and Behavior"; Herbert Feigl's "Principles and Problems of Theory Construction in Psychology"; Wayne Dennis's "Developmental Theories."
OCLC records only 5 copies. The third part of Ekehorn's monumental study, the first five parts of which appeared in 1947-48 with the same title, part six in 1948 as Mind's Conflict with Nature. The table of contents of the present work mentions a projected part eight "Philosophy and Modern Biology," but we can no find no record of its appearance as a separate text. Despite the title, this is decidedly not a study of Sherrington but a contribution to the philosophy of science based on Sherrington's ideas. Also published as Acta Medica Scandinavica Vol. 135 Supp. 231.
Includes papers by Frank, Churchman, Rudner, & Barrington Moore on the acceptance of scientific theories; Margenau, Bergmann, Hempel, Bridgman, Lindsay, & Grünbaum on operationalism; Frenkel-Brunswik, B.F. Skinner, Jerome Richfield, & Scriven on Freud's psychoanalytic theory; Köhler, Rashevsky, & McCulloch on organism and machine; Guerlac, Koyré, Boring, and Robert S. Cohen on science as a social and historical phenomenon.
DSB V: 416; Osler 2736; Wellcome III, p. 120; Wing G-827; Thorndike History of Magic and Experimental Science VIII: 567-568; Pyle Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers I: 340-344. The first version of Scepsis appeared in 1661 as The Vanity of Dogmatizing and a reworked version appeared as Essay II in Glanvill's 1676 Essays.One of the most important treatises on scientific method. In 1661 Glanvill published his first book, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, in which he developed a range of sceptical views about ancient and modern philosophy, which resulted in Baxter and Henry More both becoming close friends. The English Catholic thinker Thomas White (the "Albius" in the title) attacked Glanvill's scepticism in his 1663 Sciri, in response to which Glanvill wrote this more extended version of The Vanity, which led to his election to the Royal Society. Citing the range of sceptical literature from Sextus Empiricus to Montaigne, Sanchez, Charron, and Gassendi, Glanvill emphasized the problem of gaining indubitable knowledge through the senses. "He argued that in order to really know anything in the dogmatists' sense, one would have to know things in terms of their causes. But we do not see causal connections. In fact we only judge about causes in terms of constant conjunctions and concomitancies. This can never give us complete certainty since it is always possible that things can actually be otherwise than we think. The 'vanity of dogmatizing' is having complete confidence in what is actually uncertain. The Aristotelians, the Cartesians and the Hobbesian materialists all think that they know about nature as it really is. However, a good dose of scepticism applied to their beliefs shows that they are only offering opinions that are not certain, and uncertainties to not constitute science" [Richard H. Popkins' article on Glanvill in Pyle, I: p. 341].
Contains Grünbaum's "Free Will and the Problem of Human Nature"; Globus's "The Problem of Consciousness"; Rothenberg & Hausman's "Creativity: A Survey and Critique of Major Investigations"; Rubinstein's "On the Role of Classificatory Processes in Mental Functioning"; Rosen's "The Nature of Verbal Interventions in Psychoanalysis"; Jean Schimek's "The Parapraxis Specimen of Psychoanalysis"; Luborsky & Mintz's "What Sets Off Momentary Forgetting"; Gottschalk's "The Psychoanlytic Study of Hand-Mouth Approximations"; Mahler's On the First Three Subphases of the Separation-Individuaion Process"; Fred Pines's "Libidinal Object Constancy: A Theoretical Note"; Charles Fisher et al.'s "A Psychophysiological Study of Nightmares and Night Terrors: I. Physiological Aspects of the Stage 4 Night Terror"; Harry Fiss et al.'s "'Dream Intensification' as a Function of Prolonged REM-Period Interruption"; Umbarger's "Problems in the Psychology of Dreaming: A Review of the Work of Richard Jones"; Thomas Anders's "An Overview of Recent Sleep and Dream Research"; Eugen Bär's "Understanding Lacan."
Contains a complete bibliography of Woodger's publications + 26 papers including Quine's "On Simple Theories of a Complex World"; H. F. Blum's "The Devious Roads of Science"; E. W. Beth's "The Relationship Between Formalized Languages and Natural Languages"; Kemeny's "Analyticity Versus Fuzziness"; Popper's "Creative and Noncreative Definitions in the Calculus of Probability; 6 papers on models in science including Lewontin's "Models, Mathematics and Metaphors"; 8 on analytic biology.
Contains Newton P. Stallknecht's "Philosophy and Civilization"; Eugene P. Wigner's "Epistemology of Quantum Mechanics—Its Apprisal and Demands"; Michael Polanyi's "The Creative Imagination"; Donald L. Weismann's "The Collage as Model"; C. F. A. Pantin's "Organism and Environment"; Helmuth Plessner's "'A Newton of a Blade of Grass'?"; M. R. A. Chance's "Man in Biology"; Erwin W. Strauss' "Embodiment and Excarnation"; Sigmund Koch's "Value Properties: Their Significance for Psychology, Axiology, and Science."
Perhaps the principal exposition of Haeckel's "monistic philosophy."
GM-5 1588.6
The first collection of Hanson's posthumous essays on the philosophy of science.
Heim was professor of theology at the University of Tübingen. The final volume of his Der evangelische Glaube und das Denken der Gegenwart [Evangelical Faith and Present-Day Thought].
Contains: Band 1/1: 1) Ueber das Verhältniss der Naturwissenschaften zur Gesammtheit der Wissenschaft. 2) Ueber Goethe's naturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten. 3) Ueber die physiologischen Ursachen der musikalischen Harmonie. 4) Eis und Gletscher. [with colored woodcuts of glaciers]. Band 1/2: 1. Die neueren Fortschritte in der Theorie des Sehens: Der optische Apparat des Auges. Die Gesichtsempfindungen. Die Gesichtswahrnehmungen. 2) Ueber die Wechselwirkung der Naturkräfte und die darauf bezüglichen neueren Ermittelungen der Physik. 3) Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft. 4) Ueber das Ziel und die Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaft. Band 2: 1) Ueber den Ursprung und die Bedeutung der geometrischen Axiome. 2) Zum Gedächtnis an Gustav Magnus. 3) Ueber die Entstehung des Planetensystems. 4) Optisches über Malerei: Die Formen. Helligkeitsstufen. Die Farbe. Die Farbenharmonie. 4) Wirbelstürme und Gewitter. 5) Das Denken in der Medizin. 6) Ueber die akademische Freiheit der deutschen Universitäten. 7) Die Thatsachen in der Wahrnehmung + Beilagen: I. Ueber die Localisation der Empfindungen innerer Organe; II. Der Raum kann transcendental sein, ohne dass es die Axiome sind; III. Die Anwendbarkeit der Axiome auf die physische Welt. 8) Die neuere Entwickelung von Faraday's Ideen über Elektricität. 9) Ueber die elektrischen Maasseinheiten nach den Berathungen des elektrischen Congresses, versammelt zu Paris 1881. 10) Kritisches: I. Induction und Deduction. Vorrede zum zweiten Theile des ersten Bandes der Uebersetzung von W. Thomson's und Tait's "Treatise on Natural Philosophy". II. Ueber das Streben nach Popularisirung der Wissenschaft. Vorrede zur Uebersetzung von J. Tyndall's "Fragments of Science". 11) Kritische Beilage: Zöllner contra Tyndall.
The last edition (following the text of the 1896 fourth edition).
- Differs quite a bit from the first edition (1865-1884). Contains Band I: Erinnerungen (1891). Ueber Goethes naturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten (1853). Nachschrift (1875). Ueber die Wechselwirkung der Naturkräfte und die darauf bezüglichen neuesten Ermittelungen der Physik (1854). Ueber das Sehen des Menschen (1855). Ueber die physiologischen Ursachen der musikalischen Harmonie (1857). Ueber das Verhältnis der Naturwissenschaften zur Gesammtheit der Wissenschaften (1862). Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft (1862/63). Eis und Gletscher (1865). Die neueren Fortschritte in der Theorie des Sehens (1868). Ueber das Ziel und die Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaft. Eröffnungsrede für die Naturforscherversammlung zu Innsbruck (1869). Appendix with extensions to "Ueber die Wechselwirkung der Naturkräfte" and "Eis und Gletscher."
- Band II: Ueber den Ursprung und die Bedeutung der geometrischen Axiome (1870). Zum Gedächtniss an Gustav Magnus (1871).Ueber die Entstehung des Planetensystems (1871). Optische über Malerei (1871 bis 1873).Wirbelstürme und Gewitter (1875). Das Denken in der Medizin (1877). Ueber die akademische Freiheit der deutschen Universitäten (1877). Die Thatsachen in der Wahrnehmung (1878). Die neuere Entwickelung von Faraday's ideen über Elektricität (1881). Ueber die elektrischen Maasseinheiten nach den Berathungen des elektrischen Congresses, versammelt zu Paris 1881. Antwortrede, gehalten beim Empfang der Graefe-Medaille. Heidelberg, den 9. August 1886. Addresses on Josef Frauenhofer, Goethe, and Heinrich Hertz. Additions and expansions to a number of the papers.
Herbert had been Professor of Philosophy and Church History at the Lancashire Independent College, Manchester.
An important collection of papers.
Contains papers by Victor E. Weisskopf, Murray Gell-Mann, Steven Weinberg, Fred Hoyle, Stanley L. Jaki, and Hilary Putnam.
Contains "On the Method of Zadig [1880]"; "The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology" [1881]; "Lectures on Evolution" [1876]; "The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature" [1885]; "Mr. Gladstone and Genesis" [1886]; "The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science" [1890]; "Hasisadra's Adventure" [1891]; and "The Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study" [1886].
Elected FRS in 1775, Jones was a prominent churchman of his day. He published sermons about nature, seeing "symbols of orthodox Christian truth, especially trinities, where others sought design and natural religion. Jones was one of the great upholders of Anglican High Church tradition, and a prominent opponent of the Enlightenment, Unitarianism and civil indiscipline" [Dict. of Eighteenth Century British Philosophers, I: 494].
The Greenwood reprint omits Hastie's monographic introduction but reprints the three appendices containing Dieterich's Summary of Kant's Theory of the Heavens, The Hamburg Account of the Theory of Thomas Wright of Durham, and Professor De Morgan's Account of the Speculations of Thomas Wright of Durham. An added appendix by Ley gives a complete printing history of Kant's text.
Contains papers by Kuznets on economics, Kluckhohn on cultural analysis, Nagel, Jakobson on language, and I. A. Richards' "How Does a Poem Know When It Is Finished?"
Section 2: Philosophy of Science (M-W)
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