《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》的内容分“表征”和“干预”两个部分。“表征”部分探讨了科学实在论问题，分析了库恩、费耶阿本德、拉卡托斯、普特南、范·弗拉森等人的观点，“干预’部分财首次对实验科学进行了深入研究，表明实验具有独立干理论的生命，从而给出了实在论之争的新方向。作者论证，如果我们能够利用理论概念通过实验成功地干预世界，那么这些理论概念就是实在的。他的实体实在论或实验实在论已成为科学实在论的要要流派之一。 《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》视角独辟蹊径，风格清晰生动，内容深入浅出，堪称科学哲学界的又地范式转移之作。《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》适合理工科师生以及科技哲学、科技史和科学社会学等领域的研究者参阅。

This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities. The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are...(展开全部)

《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》的内容分“表征”和“干预”两个部分。“表征”部分探讨了科学实在论问题，分析了库恩、费耶阿本德、拉卡托斯、普特南、范·弗拉森等人的观点，“干预’部分财首次对实验科学进行了深入研究，表明实验具有独立干理论的生命，从而给出了实在论之争的新方向。作者论证，如果我们能够利用理论概念通过实验成功地干预世界，那么这些理论概念就是实在的。他的实体实在论或实验实在论已成为科学实在论的要要流派之一。 《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》视角独辟蹊径，风格清晰生动，内容深入浅出，堪称科学哲学界的又地范式转移之作。《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》适合理工科师生以及科技哲学、科技史和科学社会学等领域的研究者参阅。

When mathematician Hermann Weyl decided to write a book on philosophy, he faced what he referred to as 'conflicts of conscience' - the objective nature of science, he felt, did not mesh easily with the incredulous, uncertain nature of philosophy. Yet the two disciplines were already intertwined. In "Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science", Weyl examines how advances in p...(展开全部)

The publisher, Prentice-Hall Humanities/Social Science This volume explores the logic and methodology of scientific inquiry rather than its substantive results.

Major figures of twentieth-century philosophy were enthralled by the revolution in formal logic, and many of their arguments are based on novel mathematical discoveries. Hilary Putnam claimed that the Löwenheim-Skølem theorem refutes the existence of an objective, observer-independent world; Bas van Fraassen claimed that arguments against empiricism in philosophy of science are...(展开全部)

Adopts the notion of an 'arch of knowledge' representing the double pathway of induction and deduction: from empirical observations to theoretical principles to predictions that may be tested experimentally.

The world didn't end on 10 September 2008, but the possibility may have got you thinking: was it worth the risk? What is the point of science actually? Geoffrey Gorham considers these questions and explores the social and ethical implications of science by linking them to issues facing scientists today: human extinction, extraterrestrial intelligence, space colonization, and mo...(展开全部)

Nearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, since some of them favor research whereas others hamper it. For instance, whereas subjectiv...(展开全部)

Nearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, since some of them favor research whereas others hamper it. For instance, whereas subjectiv...(展开全部)