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Making Things Happen(Paperback)
A Theory of Causal Explanation
Oxford University Press Inc
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01/09/2005
Woodward's long awaited book is an attempt to construct a comprehensive account of causation explanation that applies to a wide variety of causal and explanatory claims in different areas of scienc...
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Inventing Temperature(Paperback)
Measurement and Scientific Progress
Oxford University Press Inc
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01/09/2007
Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the reliability and accuracy of thes...
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Reconstructing Reality(Hardback)
Models, Mathematics, and Simulations
Oxford University Press Inc
The book examines issues related to the way modeling and simulation enable us to reconstruct aspects of the world we are investigating. It also investigates the processes by which we extract concre...
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The Ant Trap(Hardback)
Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences
Oxford University Press Inc
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01/04/2015
In The Ant Trap, Brian Epstein rewrites our understanding of the nature of the social world and the foundations of the social sciences. He develops a new model of the social world, and shows that th...
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Mathematics and Scientific Representation(Hardback)
Oxford University Press Inc
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15/12/2011
Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be for mathematics and science. Pincock ...
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Simulation and Similarity(Hardback)
Using Models to Understand the World
Oxford University Press Inc
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22/01/2013
This book is an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models. The main topics of this book are the nature of model...
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Causation and its Basis in Fundamental Physics(Hardback)
Oxford University Press Inc
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25/09/2013
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to solve what Hartry Field has called "the central problem in the metaphysics of causation": the problem of reconciling the need for causal notions in th...
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Systematicity(Hardback)
The Nature of Science
Oxford University Press Inc
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26/04/2013
In Systematicity, Paul Hoyningen-Huene answers the question "What is science?" by proposing that scientific knowledge is primarily distinguished from other forms of knowledge, especially from everyd...
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