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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2010

Series: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective

ISBN (Hardback): 9789048191147

Full citation:

Friedrich Stadler (ed), The present situation in the philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 2010

The present situation in the philosophy of science

Contents

Reflections on Chimisso

French philosophy of science and the historical method

Anastasios Brenner

57-65

Life in a physical world

the place of the life sciences

Marcel Weber

155-168

How special are the life sciences?

a view from the natural kinds debate

Thomas Reydon

173-188

Reductionism in biology

an example of biochemistry

Mehmet Elgin

195-203

State of the art

a commentary on Wenceslao J. Gonzalez's contribution, "trends and problems in philosophy of social and cultural sciences: a European perspective"

Arto Siitonen

243-255

The characterisation of structure

definition versus axiomatisation

F. A. Müller

399-416