Reduction, Time and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences

by Richard Healey

Book Overview

The contributors to this 1981 volume are all concerned with scientific realism, but each author questions or rejects aspects of the way it has traditionally been discussed. There are three main foci of attention - reduction, time and modality - and the analyses bring out complexities and difficulties obscured in the standard accounts of scientific realism. The papers are powerful and original, representing some of the best in modern philosophy of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521143721
• ISBN13: 9780521143721
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"