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Free Philosophy of Science E-Books - Yazata - Jun 8, 2018 Besides their truly amazing and extraordinary philosophy of science preprint server http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/ it seems that the University of Pittsburgh Press has made e-book versions of their out-of-print titles available for free online reading. There are 35 titles in the 'philosophy' category, most of them philosophy of science titles. http://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/university-pittsburgh-press-digital-editions?islandora_solr_search_navigation=0&f%5B0%5D=mods_subject_topic_ms%3A%22Philosophy%22 Some examples: Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science http://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735062137009/from_search/-16#page/7/mode/1up Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation http://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735047065523/from_search/-12#page/8/mode/1up The Limits of Science http://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735043494966/from_search/-2#page/12/mode/1up The Nature and Function of Scientific Theories http://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735057893384/from_search/-17#page/9/mode/1up Concepts, Theories and Rationality in the Biological Sciences http://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735060482415/from_search/-26#page/13/mode/1up And a classic title: Four Decades of Scientific Explanation http://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:31735032370631/from_search/-22#page/8/mode/1up RE: Free Philosophy of Science E-Books - C C - Jun 9, 2018 Like the "two-page" view option. Unlike Google Books, doesn't seem to be the selective and constantly mutable omission of pages (at least, going by the one example below). The Cosmos of Science - Essays of explanation ... edited by John Earman & John D. Norton Preface excerpt: ... In his "Experiment, Community, and the Constitution of Nature in the Seventeenth Century," Daniel Garber shows that much still remains to be understood about the historical development of that most common of notions in scientific discourse, objectivity. He finds in the early Royal Society a powerfully social dimension to facthood. Before an experimental outcome can enter into the register of attested facts, the experiment must be performed before competent witnesses. Garber argues that this social dimension of facthood is an innovation of the Royal Society and is not to be found in the methodological writings of the immediate predecessors of the Royal Society. These figures include René Descartes and, remarkably, Francis Bacon, whose vision of the practice of science was supposedly realized by the Royal Society. |