philosophy of science a very short introduction jul 2002

... Introductionsavailablenow:ANCIENTPHILOSOPHYJuliaAnnasTHEANGLO-SAXONAGEJohn BlairANIMALRIGHTS David DeGraziaARCHAEOLOGYPaulBahnARCHITECTUREAndrew BallantyneARI STOTLE Jonathan BarnesARTH ISTORYDanaArnoldARTTHEORY ... theoryaboutunobservable entities,onthe'tgroundsthatit can explain a large range of observational data.Ananti-realist philosopher of science comes along,andarguesthatthedatacan ... WilliamsonCLASSICSMaryBeardandJohn HendersonCLAUSEWITZMichael HowardTHECOLDWARRobert McMahonCausality-based accounts of explanation certainly capture thestructure of manyactual scientific explanations...

... the values of human sharing and solidarity. The political realm was more a question of management and manipulation than of the communal shaping of a common life. Reason itself had been debased ... the more eagerly as the public domain itself became increasingly drained of meaning. Fact and value seemed to have split apart, leaving the former a public affair and the latter a private one.2The ... between real questions and phoney ones. A piece of language can have the grammatical form of a question but not actually be one. Or our grammar can mislead 2 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus...

... was a great collision asAfrica drove north into North America and Europe, causingearthquakes and volcanoes, and raising a chain of mountainsfrom the Appalachians, across Ireland and Germany, ... PeriodCenozoicMesozoicPalaeozoicPrecambrianProterozoicArchaeanHadeanTertiaryQuaternaryNeogenePalaeogeneCretaceousJurassicTriassicPermianCarboniferousDevonianSilurianOrdovicianCambrianPennsylvanianMississippian3. Geological timescaleThe ... character of microfossil assemblages changed dramatically: spores appeared.Spores are airborne microscopic cells that are characteristic of land plants. So, although these earliest land plants have...