Descartes' works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in "Descartes' Changing Mind", Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works - and that any interpretation of [...]
This volume presents a definitive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of science. Each of the chapters - written especially for this volume by internationally distinguished scholars - reviews a problem, examines the current state of the discipline with respect to the topic, and discusses po[...]
Few people, if any, still argue that science in all its aspects is a value-free endeavor. At the very least, values affect decisions about the choice of research problems to investigate and the uses to which the results of research are applied. But what about the actual doing of science? "As Science[...]