Neo-Aristotelian perspectives on contemporary science / / edited by William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and Nicholas J. Teh.
"The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as...
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| Superior document: | Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 17 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Routledge,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (337 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- chapter Introduction: Reflections on Contemporary Science and the New Aristotelianism / ROBERT C. KOONS, WILLIAM M. R. SIMPSON, AND NICHOLAS J. TEH
- part Part 1 The Philosophy of Physics
- chapter 1 Dodging the Fundamentalist Threat / XAVI LANAO
- chapter 2 Actuality, Potentiality, and Relativity’s Block Universe / EDWARD FESER
- chapter 3 The Many Worlds Interpretation of QM: A Hylomorphic Critique and Alternative / ROBERT C. KOONS
- chapter 4 A Traveling Forms Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics / ALEXANder R. PRUSS
- chapter 5 Half- Baked Humeanism / WILLIAM M. R. SIMPSON
- chapter 6 Disentangling Nature’s Joints / TUOMAS E. TAHKO
- part Part 2 The Philosophy of the Life Sciences
- chapter 7 Structural Powers and the Homeodynamic Unity of Organisms / CHRISTOPHER J. AUSTIN
- chapter 8 A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism / CHRISTOPHER J. AUSTIN
- chapter 9 The Great Unifier: Form and the Unity of the Organism / DAVID S. OderBERG
- chapter 10 Action, Animacy, and Substance Causation / JANICE CHIK BREIDENBACH
- chapter 11 Psychology Without a Mental- Physical Dichotomy / WILLIAM JAWORSKI
- chapter 12 Hylomorphism and the New Mechanist Philosophy in Biology, Neuroscience, and Psychology / DANIEL D. DE HAAN.