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ISBN: 9780262550215 - World Enough and Space-Time World Enough and Space-Time
John Earman

ISBN10: 0262550210  ISBN13: 9780262550215
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd MIT Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 1992
Earman introduces and clarifies the historical and philosophical development of the clash between Newton's absolute conception of space and Leibniz's relative one. Newton's Principia introduced conceptions of space and time that launched one of... More

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ISBN: 9780195127379 - Hume's Abject Failure The Argument Against Miracles Hume's Abject Failure The Argument Against Miracles
JOHN, EARMAN

ISBN10: 9780198029311  ISBN13: 9780198029311
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
By situating Hume's famous work Of Miracles (which notoriously argues against the possiblity of miracles) in the context of the 18th-century debate on miracles, Earman shows that Hume's argument is largely unoriginal, and largely without... More

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ISBN: 9780195095913 - Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers and Shrieks Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers and Shrieks
John Earman

ISBN10: 019509591X  ISBN13: 9780195095913
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Nov 1995
Almost from its inception, Einstein's general theory of relativity was known to sanction spacetime models harboring singularities, which involve a breakdown in the very fabric of space and time and, consequently, a failure of the known laws of... More

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ISBN: 9780195127386 - Hume's Abject Failure Hume's Abject Failure
John Earman

ISBN10: 0195127382  ISBN13: 9780195127386
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Oct 2000
This vital study offers a new interpretation of Hume's famous "Of Miracles," which notoriously argues against the possibility of miracles. By situating Hume's popular argument in the context of the eighteenth-century debate on miracles... More

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ISBN: 9780195127379 - Hume's Abject Failure Hume's Abject Failure
John Earman

ISBN10: 0195127374  ISBN13: 9780195127379
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Oct 2000
This vital study offers a new interpretation of Hume's famous "Of Miracles," which notoriously argues against the possibility of miracles. By situating Hume's popular argument in the context of the 18th century debate on miracles, Earman shows... More

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ISBN: 9789027722416 - A Primer on Determinism A Primer on Determinism
John Earman

ISBN10: 9027722412  ISBN13: 9789027722416
Publisher: Springer Kluwer Academic Publishers
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 1986

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ISBN: 9780262050463 - Bayes or Bust? Bayes or Bust?
John Earman

ISBN10: 0262050463  ISBN13: 9780262050463
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd MIT Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Jul 1992
Bayes or Bust? provides the first balanced treatment of the complex set of issues involved in this nagging conundrum in the philosophy of science. There is currently no viable alternative to the Bayesian analysis of scientific inference... More

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ISBN: 9780872204508 - Introduction to the Philosophy of Science Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Merrilee H Salmon, et al Merrilee H Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour, James Lennox

ISBN10: 0872204502  ISBN13: 9780872204508
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 13 Apr 1999
Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader represents a co-operative effort to provide an introduction to the philosophy of science focused on cultivating an understanding of both the workings of... More

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ISBN: 9789027722409 - A Primer on Determinism A Primer on Determinism
John Earman

ISBN10: 9027722404  ISBN13: 9789027722409
Publisher: Springer Kluwer Academic Publishers
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Aug 1986

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ISBN: 9781402010200 - Ceteris Paribus Laws Ceteris Paribus Laws
Earman, John John Earman, Clark Glymour, Sandra D Mitchell

ISBN10: 1402010206  ISBN13: 9781402010200
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition: Reprinted from
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Feb 2003
Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and... More