Mexican Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science /

The editors have selected a number of papers that represent recent studies by Mexican philosophers and historians of science. While attention is paid to several main developments of science in Mexico, the book does not deal only with national or even regional issues. Moreover, Mexican works on the p...

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Main Author: Ramírez, Santiago
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cohen, Robert S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
Series:Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; 172.
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Summary:The editors have selected a number of papers that represent recent studies by Mexican philosophers and historians of science. While attention is paid to several main developments of science in Mexico, the book does not deal only with national or even regional issues. Moreover, Mexican works on the philosophy of science are no new phenomenon. Although originating in the need to construct a national identity during the 19th century, and stimulated by the European Enlightenment, Mexican scholarship has now reached maturity, both in terms of an awareness of their historical situation and creative competence with respect to the live issues at the international level. This book presents topics of biology and physics, historical explanation and the historiography of science, and foundations of mathematics, with particular concern for Hilbert, Russell and Wittgenstein.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (292 pages)
ISBN:9789400901094 (electronic bk.)
9400901097 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:0068-0346 ;