The Philosophy of Science 2-Volume Set: An Encyclopedia

✍ Scribed by Sahotra Sarkar, Jessica Pfeifer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 998
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy.

Articles, ranging from 3,000 to 7,500 words, include comprehensive coverage of: * Adaptation * Artificial Intelligence * Causality * Chemistry, Philosophy of * Chomsky, Noam * Determinism * Evolution * Feminist Philosophy of Science * Game Theory * Immunology * Inductive Logic * Kuhn, Thomas * Laws of Nature * Observation * Probability * Quantum Logic * Realism * Scientific Revolutions * Species * Statistics, Philosophy of * Turing, Alan * and much more.

✦ Table of Contents

A......Page 34
B......Page 74
C......Page 112
D......Page 214
E......Page 248
F......Page 328
FUNCTION
......Page 348
G......Page 356
H......Page 374
I......Page 396
K......Page 448
L......Page 466
M......Page 500
N......Page 524
O......Page 556
P......Page 564
Q......Page 662
R......Page 704
S......Page 758
T......Page 854
U......Page 872
V......Page 884
INDEX......Page 904