Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

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1. Evolution and Human Behaviour

   An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology

   By Alex Alland

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
2. The Common Scientist of the Seventeenth Century

   A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708

   By K Theodore Hoppen

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   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...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
3. Cooke and Wheatstone

   And the Invention of the Electric Telegraph

   By Geoffrey Hubbard

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
4. Soviet Marxism and Natural Science

   1917-1932

   By David Joravsky

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
5. Objectivity, Science and Society

   Interpreting nature and society in the age of the crisis of science

   By Paul A Komesaroff

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1986. This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
6. Science and Religion

   Edited by Harold K Schilling

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   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...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
7. Boundaries of the Universe

   By John S Glasby

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever. Among other things this book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, recent discoveries in the solar system, stellar...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
8. Experience and Theory

   An Essay in the Philosophy of Science

   By Stephan Korner

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1966. This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. Part One is concerned with the logic underlying empirical discourse before its subjection to the various constraints, imposed by the...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
9. Philosophy of Science and Sociology

   From the Methodological Doctrine to Research Practice

   By Edmund Mokrzycki

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1983. This book concentrates on the impact of philosophy of science on sociology and other disciplines. It argues that the impact of the philosophy of science on sociology from the rise of the Vienna Circle until the mid-1980s resulted in a deep-reaching and, in the author’s...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
10. Explanation and Understanding

    By von Wright Georg Henrik

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

    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...

    Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge