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Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer /

This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a festschrift for Peter Machamer, which includes contributions from scholars who, at one time or another, were his students. The essays bring together analyses of issues...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Adams, Marcus P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Biener, Zvi. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Feest, Uljana. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sullivan, Jacqueline A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields, 81
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
History of Philosophy.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52768-0
Table of Contents:
  • PART I: EARLY MODERN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
  • Chapter 1: William Harvey’s Repudiation of Materialism; Benny Goldberg
  • Chapter 2: Understanding Free Fall: Galileo’s Thought Experiment and the Balance as Model of Intelligibility; Maarten van Dyck
  • Chapter 3: Language, Memory and Universality in Hobbesian Scientia; Peter Distelzweig
  • Chapter 4: Diagnosing Superstition; Francesca DiPoppa
  • Chapter 5: Descartes’ Dog: A Clock with Passions? Abel B. Franco
  • Chapter 6: Models of Intelligibility in Explanations and Descriptions; David Marshall Miller
  • Chapter 7: PART II: 20TH CENTURY HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
  • Chapter 8: Carl Craver
  • Chapter 9: Heather Douglas
  • Chapter 10: Physicalism, Introspection, and Psychophysics: The Carnap/Duncker Exchange; Uljana Feest
  • Chapter 11: Activities are Manifestations of Causal Powers; Gualtiero Picinnini
  • Chapter 12: From Comte’s Positivism to Renouvier’s Conventionalism: Political Philosophy of Science in Nineteenth Century France; Warren Schmaus
  • Chapter 13: MOCing Local Reduction; Tom Seppalainen
  • Chapter 14: Running Causes Increased Blood Pressure: Topdown versus Constitutive Causation; Catherine Stinson
  • Chapter 15: Mechanisms, Realism and Antirealism; Jackie Sullivan.

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