In Romantic Empiricism, Dalia Nassar distinguishes an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, traces its development, and argues for its continued significance. Nassar shows how four key thinkers, whom s…
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Could science, if properly understood, provide us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity? That is a chief question coursing through the works of Karl Popper, who famously maintained that science cannot verify theories but only refute them, thereby bringing abou…
Main description: This book presents cutting-edge papers on methods in prosody research, in which experts in the field discuss the gathering, treatment, and interpretation of spoken-language data. Covering a wide range of approaches, the volume will serve as a handbook, allowing…
"Empiricisms reassesses the values of experience and experiment in European philosophy and comparatively. It traces the history of empirical philosophy from its birth in Greek medicine to its emergence as a philosophy of modern science. A richly detailed account in Part I of his…
"Describes the life of Shen Gua, a distinguished renaissance man in China whose writing included remarkable "scientific" discoveries. Reveals the connection between Shen's life as an active statesman and his empirical inquiries, and provides insights into the dynamics between sc…
