Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: howard sankey

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  • THE INCOMMENSURABILITY THESIS
    HOWARD SANKEY
    Originally published in 1994, The Incommensurability Thesis is a critical study of the Incommensurability Thesis of Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The book examines the theory that different scientific theories may be incommensurable because of conceptual variance. The book presents a critique of the thesis and examines and discusses the arguments for the theory, acknowledgin...

    $1,000.00

  • RATIONALITY, RELATIVISM AND INCOMMENSURABILITY
    HOWARD SANKEY
    First published in 1997, this volume brings together a series of essays on the philosophy of science and responds to the "crisis of rationality" which evolved from the denial of both a stable methodology and a common language for science. Howard Sankey holds that important insights about scientific methodology and rationality may be gleaned from the historical approach, from wh...

    $980.00

  • SCIENTIFIC REALISM AND THE RATIONALITY OF SCIENCE
    HOWARD SANKEY
    Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent world which we inhabit. This book articulates and defends that position. In presenting a clear formulation and addressing the major arguments for scientific realism Sankey appeals to philosophers beyond the c...

    $1,400.00

  • THEORIES OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD
    ROBERT NOLA / HOWARD SANKEY
    What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? Robert Nola and Howard Sankey seek to provide answers to these fundamental questions in their exploration of the major recent theories of scientific method. Although for many scientists their understanding of method is something they just pick up in the cours...

    $1,160.00