An Architectonic for Science - The Structuralist Program (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)

This book has grown out of eight years of close collaboration among its authors. From the very beginning we decided that its content should come out as the result of a truly common effort. That is, we did not "distribute" parts of the text planned to each one of us. On the contrary, we made a point that each single paragraph be the product of a common reflection. Genuine team-work is not as usual in philosophy as it is in other academic disciplines. We think, however, that this is more due to the idiosyncrasy of philosophers than to the nature of their subject. Close collaboration with positive results is as rewarding as anything can be, but it may also prove to be quite difficult to implement. In our case, part of the difficulties came from purely geographic separation. This caused unsuspected delays in coordinating the work. But more than this, as time passed, the accumulation of particular results and ideas outran our ability to fit them into an organic unity. Different styles of exposition, different ways of formalization, different levels of complexity were simultaneously present in a voluminous manuscript that had become completely unmanageable. In particular, a portion of the text had been conceived in the language of category theory and employed ideas of a rather abstract nature, while another part was expounded in the more conventional set-theoretic style, stressing intui tivity and concreteness.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Synthese Library, 186
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	1987
Authors:	W. Balzer • C. U. Moulines • J.D. Sneed
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	440
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
ISBN-13:	978-9401081764
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Statistical physics
LSN:	940108176X
Barcode:	9789401081764

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