Philosophy of Science - Couverture souple

Gillies, Donald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0631183582 ISBN 13 : 9780631183587

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons, 1993

Synopsis

ix 251p paperback, name to endpaper, pages clean, marginal yellowing, still a firm copy, in good condition, very useful, author correspondence inserted

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

As an undergraduate, Donald Gillies studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge. In 1966 he began graduate studies in Professor Sir Karl Popper′s department at the London School of Economics, and he completed his PhD on the Foundations of Probability in 1970 with Professor Imre Lakatos as supervisor. From 1968 to 1971, he was a Fellow of King′s College, Cambridge. In 1971 he joined the staff of the University of London, and is at present Reader in History and Philosophy of Science at King′s College London. In 1982, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, and from 1982 to 1985 edited the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Quatrième de couverture :

This book traces the development during the twentieth century of four central themes in the philosophy of science: inductivism, conventionalism, the nature of observation, and the demarcation between science and metaphysics. The movement of ideas is placed against the background of the lives of the philosophers and of contemporary developments in science. The four themes have been chosen because of their central importance, and are expounded in a way which does not presuppose any previous knowledge of philosophy or science. The book thus constitutes an excellent introduction to the philosophy of science.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0631183582
• ISBN 13: 9780631183587
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268