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Title: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Rudolf Carnap ISBN: 0-486-28318-6 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 17 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a great introduction to the philosophy of science
Comment: This is perhaps the only book in which Carnap is almost invariably informal. It is a remarkably clear introduction to some important topics in the philosophy of science: the nature of scientific laws, probability, scientific measurement, the structure of space, causality and determinism, theoretical concepts and laws, and a last chapter called "beyond determinism". The point where Carnap gets a bit formal, sections 26-28, is boring and absolutely out of date; his approach to analyticity is certainly not the best available. As for the rest, Carnap's conceptions are generally reliable (although it should be observed that his "logical conception" programme for probability was a complete failure). The sections I enjoyed most are those which deal with the structure of space. Carnap is highly proficient there (Carnap's doctoral dissertation was called "Der Raum") and his philosophical observations are always lucid and precise.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent read on why Science works the way it does
Comment: This is probably the clearest account of the way Science works and why certain decisions are made. Within it is contained the clearest explanation of portions of General Relativity (as a concrete example of why Einstein presented the theory in the manner he did) I've ever read, as well as many other little interesting tidbits. Some parts of the book are a bit dry, but that is probably because this book is a rewriting of college lecture notes given by the author.
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Title: The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy (Open Court Classics) by Rudolf Carnap, Rolf A. George ISBN: 0812695232 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Philosophy of Science : A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by Alexander Rosenberg, Alex Rosenberg ISBN: 041515281X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Logical Positivism by A.J. Ayer ISBN: 0029011302 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1966 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications by Rudolf Carnap ISBN: 0486604535 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1958 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic by Rudolf Carnap ISBN: 0226093476 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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