Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer [electronic resource] : A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer /
Adams, Marcus P.editor.
Biener, Zvi.editor.
Feest, Uljana.editor.
Sullivan, Jacqueline A.editor.
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 and debates spanning from early modern science and philosophy through the 21st century. Machamer’s influence is reflected in the volume’s broad range of topics. These include: underdetermination, scientific practice, scientific models, mechanistic explanation in contemporary and historical science, values in science, the relationship between philosophy and psychology, experimentation, supervenience and reductionism.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
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 and debates spanning from early modern science and philosophy through the 21st century. Machamer’s influence is reflected in the volume’s broad range of topics. These include: underdetermination, scientific practice, scientific models, mechanistic explanation in contemporary and historical science, values in science, the relationship between philosophy and psychology, experimentation, supervenience and reductionism.
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