Review
Thoughtful, concise essays that are both well structured and ordered... Larger schools with advanced courses of study in philosophy and/or bioethics will find this an extremely valuable addition to their collection. Highly recommended. - Choice
This Encyclopedia would be a useful guide to this growing area of philosophy. -- Library Journal
Thoughtful, concise essays that are both well structured and ordered... Larger schools with advanced courses of study in philosophy and/or bioethics will find this an extremely valuable addition to their collection. Highly recommended. --Choice
Contributors from many countries provide a reference to developments in the philosophy of science since the beginning of the 20th century, that is, themes that have emerged starting with the period of the Vienna Circle, the ideas of which were just beginning to spread to other communities in the 1930s when the rise of Nazism and the subsequent war complicated thinking somewhat. The figures they consider are strictly philosophers, with no scientists allowed however philosophical they might have been, and to those whose work is distant enough to allow a historical appraisal, with a few exceptions such as Chomsky and Searle. The entries, each about seven pages long, are signed, and include bibliographies and references to other entries. The two volumes are paged and indexed together. --Reference & Research Book News
Product Description
Articles, ranging from 3,000 to 7,500 words, include comprehensive coverage of: * Adaptation * Artificial Intelligence * Causality * Chemistry, Philosophy of * Chomsky, Noam * Determinism * Evolution * Feminist Philosophy of Science * Game Theory * Immunology * Inductive Logic * Kuhn, Thomas * Laws of Nature * Observation * Probability * Quantum Logic * Realism * Scientific Revolutions * Species * Statistics, Philosophy of * Turing, Alan * and much more.
