Catalog > Non-Fiction > Philosophy / Religion > Philosophy - General > Roberto Torretti: Creative Understanding (PDF)

Roberto Torretti
Creative Understanding [PDF ebook]

Support

Cover of Roberto Torretti: Creative Understanding (PDF)

"A pleasure to read. Gracefully written by a scholar well grounded in the relevant philosophical, historical, and technical background. . . . a helpfully clarifying review and analysis of some issues of importance to recent philosophy of science and a source of some illuminating insights."-Burke Townsend, Philosophy of Science

€87.64

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!

Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780226807829 ● Publisher University of Chicago Press ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5659786 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

Torretti Roberto Torretti Roberto Torretti

49,398 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Maria Danae (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK) Koukouti & Lambros (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK) Malafouris: An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing

Maria Danae (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK) Koukouti & Lambros (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK) Malafouris: An Anthropological Guide to the Art and Philosophy of Mirror Gazing

Looking at one”s face in the mirror and finding one”s self in the mirror are not the same. The former capacity is something we share with other animals; the latter is a skill: something we have to …

Cover of Tamar Szabo Gendler: Thought Experiment

Tamar Szabo Gendler: Thought Experiment

This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought experiment. The author argues that the powers and limits of this methodology can be traced to the fact tha …

Cover of Stathis Psillos: Scientific Realism

Stathis Psillos: Scientific Realism

Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track: that the world really is the way our best scientific theories describe it . In his book, Stathis Psillos gives us …

Cover of Ayo Wahlberg: Contested Categories

Ayo Wahlberg: Contested Categories

Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing …

Cover of Siegfried Hessing: Speculum Spinozanum, 1677-1977

Siegfried Hessing: Speculum Spinozanum, 1677-1977

Originally published in 1978. These essays are written by distinguished philosophers from many countries and were published as a homage to Spinoza in the year which marked the three-hundredth anniver …

Cover of Chrysostomos Stamoulis: Holy Beauty

Chrysostomos Stamoulis: Holy Beauty

The philosophical and theological study of aesthetics has a long and rich history, stretching back to Platos identification of ultimate goodness and beauty, together representing the eternal form. Re …

Cover of Robert Sinnerbrink: Understanding Hegelianism

Robert Sinnerbrink: Understanding Hegelianism

‘Understanding Hegelianism’ explores the ways in which Hegelian and anti-Hegelian currents of thought have shaped some of the most significant movements in twentieth-century European philosophy, part …

Cover of Timothy Williamson: Vagueness

Timothy Williamson: Vagueness

If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Wi …

Cover of Mark Tewdwr-Jones: The Planning Polity

Mark Tewdwr-Jones: The Planning Polity

Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of developme …

Cover of Jiri Priban: Liquid Society and Its Law

Jiri Priban: Liquid Society and Its Law

This collection of essays brings together Zygmunt Bauman and a number of internationally distinguished legal scholars who examine the influence of Bauman”s recent works on social theory of law and s …