Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
About the Book Series
History and Philosophy of Science reprints a distinguished selection of important texts published in this field over the last century. This set presents a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history and philosophy of science.
Continuous Creation: A Biological Concept of the Nature of Matter
1st Edition
By Wilfred Branfield
October 02, 2008
Originally published in 1950, this book challenged the basis of our beliefs about the relation of life to matter. Already aware that chalk, limestone and coal seams are the residues of ancient life, the author suggests that this knowledge may also be applied to the rest of matter. In that...
Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology
1st Edition
By Paul & F David Buckley & Peat
October 02, 2008
Originally published in 1979. This reprints the revised and expanded edition of 1996. In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at ...
Science and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Harold K Schilling
October 02, 2008
Originally published in 1963.This volume provides a rigorous interpretation that portrays science and religion in their actualities as personal, communal and cultural phenomena involving different concerns, conceptions and modes of inquiry. The role of key aspects of their life and thought are ...
Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory
1st Edition
By Barry Barnes
October 02, 2008
Originally published in 1974. Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies. It maintains that the sociologist should treat all beliefs symmetrically and must ...
Explanation and Understanding
1st Edition
By von Wright Georg Henrik
October 01, 2008
This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and intentionality, and the galilean, which takes causal explanation as primary. It then traces the complex history of these competing traditions...
Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science
1st Edition
By Paolo Rossi
October 01, 2008
Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and was in turn influenced by it. It examines the influence of magical and alchemical traditions on Bacon and his opposition to...
The Common Scientist of the Seventeenth Century: A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708
1st Edition
By K Theodore Hoppen
October 01, 2008
Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Philosophical Society were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume shows that a study of the work and membership of these groups is essential before any realistic assessment can be ...
The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus - Kepler - Borelli
1st Edition
By Alexandre Koyre
September 25, 2008
Originally published in English in 1973. This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered man’s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "astronomical revolution" was accomplished in three stages, each linked with the work of one man. ...