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Title The cosmos of science : essays of exploration / edited by John Earman and John D. Norton.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Konstanz : Universitätsverlag Konstanz, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 581 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What's in Kepler's new astronomy? / Bernard R. Goldstein -- Experiment, community, and the constitution of nature in the seventeenth century / Daniel Garber -- Isaac Newton on empirical success and scientific method / William Harper -- Peek behind the veil of Maya : Einstein, Schopenhauer, and the historical background of the conception of space as a ground for the individuation of physical systems / Don Howard -- From constructive to predictive mathematics / Geoffrey Hellman -- Halfway through the woods : contemporary research on space and time / Carlo Rovelli -- What superpositions feel like / David Z Albert -- Preparation problem in quantum mechanics / Linda Wessels -- Schrödinger's cat and other entanglements of quantum mechanics / Jeffrey Bub -- Deterministic chaos and the nature of chance / John A. Winnie -- Models, the Brownian motion, and the disunities of physics / R.I.G. Hughes -- Continuum of inductive methods revisited / Sandy L. Zabell -- Science without induction / Frederick Suppe -- That just don't sound right : a plea for real examples / David L. Hull -- Logical framework for the notion of Natural property / J. Michael Dunn -- Singular causation and laws of nature / David M. Armstrong -- Action and autonomy / Fred Dretske -- Explanations involving rationality / Peter Railton.
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Summary Annotation The inaugural volume of the series, devoted to the work of philosopher Adolf Gruuml;nbaum, encompasses the philosophical problems of space, time, and cosmology, the nature of scientific methodology, and the foundations of psychoanalysis.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- History.
Science.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Earman, John.
Norton, John D., 1960-
University of Pittsburgh. University Library System. Digital Research Library.
Other Form: Cosmos of science. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Konstanz : Universitätsverlag Konstanz, ©1997 0822939304 (DLC) 95052718 (OCoLC)33969696
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