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Probability and Confirmation by Lawrence Sklar
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815327035Author Lawrence SklarFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
Philosophy Of Physics Lawrence Sklar 9780813306254
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08The study of the physical world had its origins in philosophy, and, two-and-one-half millennia later, the scientific advances of the twentieth century are bringing the two fields closer together... -
Space, Time, and Spacetime by Lawrence Sklar
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.38In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and time - problems that require for their... -
The Philosophy of Physics by Lawrence Sklar 9780815334934
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £115.97First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815334934Author Lawrence SklarFormat HardbackPage Count 434Imprint CRC Press... -
Philosophy of Physics by Lawrence Sklar 9780198751380
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £41.85The systematic study of the physical world had its orgins in philosophy; two-and-a-half millennia later, the scientific advances of the twentieth century are bringing the two fields closer together... -
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics by Lawrence Sklar
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.06Although now replaced by more modern theories, classical mechanics remains a core foundational element of physical theory. From its inception, the theory of dynamics has been riddled with conceptual... -
Explanation, Law, and Cause by Lawrence Sklar 9780815327004
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.08First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815327004Author Lawrence SklarFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint RoutledgePublisher... -
Philosophy and the Foundations of Dynamics by Lawrence Sklar 9780521888196
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93Although now replaced by more modern theories, classical mechanics remains a core foundational element of physical theory. From its inception, the theory of dynamics has been riddled with conceptual... -
Theory Reduction and Theory Change by Lawrence Sklar 9780815327028
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.08First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815327028Author Lawrence SklarFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint CRC Press... -
Physical Theory: Method and Interpretation by Lawrence Sklar 9780195145649
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £66.22In nine new essays, distinguished philosophers of science take on outstanding philosophical issues that arise in the exploration of the foundations of contemporary, especially physical scientific... -
Theory and Truth: Philosophical Critique within Foundational Science by Lawrence Sklar 9780199251575
Booksplease Price: £46.56Skeptics have cast doubt on the idea that scientific theories give us a true picture of an objective world. Lawrence Sklar examines three kinds of skeptical arguments about scientific truth, and... -
Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics by Lawrence Sklar 9780521558815
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.30Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers of physics, offers a comprehensive, non-technical... -
Science and Reason by Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. 9780195062533
Booksplease Price: £72.85The respected philosopher of science Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. sets forth his views on a wide range of philosophical problems associated with the study and practice of science and mathematics.ReviewsThere... -
What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays on Space and Time by Graham Nerlich 9780521452618
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Graham Nerlich is one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of space and time. Eleven of his essays are here brought together in a carefully structured volume, which deal with... -
The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences by Paul Humphreys
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60This book provides a post-positivist theory of deterministic and probabilistic causality that supports both quantitative and qualitative explanations. Features of particular interest include the... -
What Spacetime Explains: Metaphysical Essays on Space and Time by Graham Nerlich 9780521044035
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Graham Nerlich is one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of space and time. Eleven of his essays are here brought together in a carefully structured volume, which deal with... -
Time and Chance by David Z. Albert
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.46This book is an attempt to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical... -
Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant by Prof Gordon Belot 9780192866462
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £58.20Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe has for our... -
The Mystery of the Quantum World Euan J. Squires 9780750301787
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Quantum mechanics stands as one of the most remarkable achievements of the 20th century, providing startling insight into the nature of matter and a spectacularly successful predictive theory... -
Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present by Olivier Darrigol
Booksplease Price: £75.16Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience? This book recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only,... -
Einstein Thomas Ryckman (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada) 9780415773270
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Less well known is that fundamental philosophical problems, such as concept formation, the role of epistemology in...