Eppur si muove - doing history and philosophy of science with Peter Machamer : a collection of essays in honor of Peter Machamer /: a collection of essays in honor of Peter Machamer. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marcus P. Adams, Zvi Biener, Uljana Feest, Jacqueline A. Sullivan, Editors.
• Editors: Adams, Marcus P; Biener, Zvi; Feest, Uljana; Sullivan, Jacqueline A
• Other Names: Machamer, Peter K honouree.
• 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.​.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 501; Science -- Philosophy; Science -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319527680
• Related ISBNs: 9783319527666
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