Peter Achinstein

Gebundenes Buch

Speculation

Within and about Science

Beschreibung

Newton deplored speculation in science, Einstein reveled in it. What exactly are scientific speculations? Are they ever legitimate? Are they subject to constraints? This book defends a pragmatic approach to these issues and applies it to speculations within science (e.g., ones in fundamental physics) and to speculations about science (e.g., ones about simplicity, holism, and a "Theory of Everything").

Autor

Peter Achinstein who received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, is the author of seven influential books in the philosophy of science, including Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science (OUP 1991), which received the Lakatos Award in 1993. A festschrift in his honor, Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 149mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780190615055
• ISBN-10: 0190615052
• Artikelnr.: 54546384