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Eppur Si Muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer

Eppur Si Muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer

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Series: The Western Ontario Philosophy of Science, Book 81

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 3319849808
ISBN13: 9783319849805
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jul 21 2018
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.​

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