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This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide
range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a
festschrift for Peter Machamer, which includes contributions from
scholars who, at one time or another, were his students. The essays
bring together analyses of issues and debates spanning from early
modern science and philosophy through the 21st century. Machamer's
influence is reflected in the volume's broad range of topics. These
include: underdetermination, scientific practice, scientific
models, mechanistic explanation in contemporary and historical
science, values in science, the relationship between philosophy and
psychology, experimentation, supervenience and reductionism.
This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide
range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a
festschrift for Peter Machamer, which includes contributions from
scholars who, at one time or another, were his students. The essays
bring together analyses of issues and debates spanning from early
modern science and philosophy through the 21st century. Machamer's
influence is reflected in the volume's broad range of topics. These
include: underdetermination, scientific practice, scientific
models, mechanistic explanation in contemporary and historical
science, values in science, the relationship between philosophy and
psychology, experimentation, supervenience and reductionism.
This is the first volume of original commissioned papers on the
subject of Newton and empiricism. The chapters, contributed by a
leading team of both established and younger international
scholars, explore the nature and extent of Newton's relationship to
a variety of empiricisms and empiricists. Among the many
significant contributions of the volume are a detailed engagement
with Newton's optical writings, a careful contextualization of
Newton's methods in seventeenth century context, a critical
analysis of the ways in which Locke and Hume responded to Newton,
and a history of the reception of Newton's methods in astronomy.
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