Titlebook: Spanish Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Gonzalo Munévar Book 1996 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996 ethics.morality.phi

heterogeneous

The Story of a Non-Discovery: Helmholtz And The Conservation Of Energy,century. The first is how physics became a hegemonic science during the previous century. The second concerns its intellectual organization. The first problem can be approached in many ways but the general temptation is to treat it as a question closely related to the social projection of physics, i

Dealing

Pericarditis

Philosophy and Cosmology,e incoming flood of disparate data and enigmatic clues? Will we be able to incorporate all of them into a coherent picture of the observable universe as an unitary physical system? Cosmology is the intellectual endeavor which tries to meet this challenge. It lies at the cutting edge between science

ARBOR

The Incompleteness of Technics,say, to the idea that the ultimate objective of technical progress is the complete technification of reality. Here, a theory of the progress of technics is proposed according to which its character is cumulative, not teleological, contingent, not deterministic, and radically incomplete. One notable

nascent

CLAM

The Nature of Science and the Problem of Demarcation,ic knowledge is equally wondrous: the high-rise buildings of our cities, thruways and long span-bridges, rockets that bring men to the moon, telephones that provide instant communication across continents, computers that perform complex calculations in millionths of a second, vaccines and drugs that

Paraplegia

Axillary

The Ultimate Epistemological Consequences of the Darwinian Conception,voiding their pitfalls. The proposed formulation will be based on historical analysis and on analogies that adhere closely to the spirit of Darwinism. By placing this view in a context that includes rival theories and their metaphysics, it will be possible to transcend Darwinism itself.

团结

DEI

The Philosophy of Technology Assessment, to the failure to rectify the environmental and social risks of contemporary techno-science. We have a long list indeed of crises associated with this culture of risk: accidents in nuclear, chemical, and armament industries, related as much to production as to transportation; the continuous polluti