Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer : a Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer / edited by Marcus P. Adams, Zvi Biener, Uljana Feest, Jacqueline A. Sullivan.
Adams, Marcus P., editor.; Biener, Zvi, editor.; Feest, Uljana, editor.; Sullivan, Jacqueline A., editor.
2017
B67
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Title Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer : a Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer / edited by Marcus P. Adams, Zvi Biener, Uljana Feest, Jacqueline A. Sullivan.
ISBN 9783319527680
3319527681
9783319527666
3319527665
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52768-0
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-52768-0 doi
Call Number B67
Dewey Decimal Classification 501
Summary This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a festschrift for Peter Machamer, which includes contributions from scholars who, at one time or another, were his students. The essays bring together analyses of issues and debates spanning from early modern science and philosophy through the 21st century. Machamer's influence is reflected in the volume's broad range of topics. These include: underdetermination, scientific practice, scientific models, mechanistic explanation in contemporary and historical science, values in science, the relationship between philosophy and psychology, experimentation, supervenience and reductionism.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references. and index.
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Added Author Adams, Marcus P., editor.
Biener, Zvi, editor.
Feest, Uljana, editor.
Sullivan, Jacqueline A., editor.
Series Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields ; 81.
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PART I: EARLY MODERN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 1: William Harvey's Repudiation of Materialism; Benny Goldberg
Chapter 2: Understanding Free Fall: Galileo's Thought Experiment and the Balance as Model of Intelligibility; Maarten van Dyck
Chapter 3: Language, Memory and Universality in Hobbesian Scientia; Peter Distelzweig
Chapter 4: Diagnosing Superstition; Francesca DiPoppa
Chapter 5: Descartes' Dog: A Clock with Passions? Abel B. Franco
Chapter 6: Models of Intelligibility in Explanations and Descriptions; David Marshall Miller
Chapter 7: PART II: 20TH CENTURY HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Chapter 8: Carl Craver
Chapter 9: Heather Douglas
Chapter 10: Physicalism, Introspection, and Psychophysics: The Carnap/Duncker Exchange; Uljana Feest
Chapter 11: Activities are Manifestations of Causal Powers; Gualtiero Picinnini
Chapter 12: From Comte's Positivism to Renouvier's Conventionalism: Political Philosophy of Science in Nineteenth Century France; Warren Schmaus
Chapter 13: MOCing Local Reduction; Tom Seppalainen
Chapter 14: Running Causes Increased Blood Pressure: Topdown versus Constitutive Causation; Catherine Stinson
Chapter 15: Mechanisms, Realism and Antirealism; Jackie Sullivan.

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