The History of Philosophy: Metaphysics

 

Presuppositions of Modern Science

 

 History of The Idea of Nature in Western Philosophy Outline:

       Idea of Nature: History of Western Philosophy

 

Philosophy of Science

 

Bibliography

 

The Parmenides and The Timaeus

 by Plato

 

Metaphysics

 by Aristotle

Translated with Commentaries and Glossary

by Hippocrates G. Apostle, 1966

 

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

by Immanuel Kant, 1783

A revision of the Carus translation with an introduction

by Lewis White Beck, 1950

About Science: The method is analytical,

 i.e., they begin with experience and regress upon its a priori presuppositions

or principles without which it would not be possible

 to have that kind of experience.

 

 Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

 Translated by Norman Kemp Smith, 1965

About Science: The method is synthetic,

 i.e., it begins with principles and thence proceed

 to the experiences which they organize, govern, and render intelligible.

 

The Phenomenology of Mind

 by G.W.F. Hegel

 Translated by J. B. Baillie, 1807/1967

 

Hegel's Science of Logic

Translated by A. V. Miller, 1812/1969

 

The Concept of Nature

by Alfred North Whitehead, 1919

 

Science and the Modern World

by Alfred North Whitehead, 1925

 

Process and Reality

by Alfred North Whitehead, 1927-28

 

Holism and Evolution

 by Jan Christian Smuts, 1926

 

Science for the Citizen

 by Lancelot Hogben, 1938

 

An Essay on Metaphysics

 by R. G. Collingwood, 1940

Revised Edition with an Introduction and additional material

edited by Rex Martin, 1998

 

The Idea of Nature

by R. G. Collingwood, 1945

 

The Common Sense of Science

by J. Bronowski, 1951

 

 Science and Human Values by

J. Bronowski, 1956

 

 The Identity of Man

 by J. Bronowski, 1965

 

  Nature and Knowledge: 

The Philosophy of Contemporary Science

by J. Bronowski, 1969

 

 The Assent of Man

by J. Bronowski, 1973

 

 A Sense of the Future

by J. Bronowski, 1977

  

Philosophy of Science:

 Readings selected, edited, and introduced

by Arthur Danto and Sidney Morgenbesser, 1960

 

Biography of Physics

by George Gamow, 1961

 

Science in the Making

 by Joel H. Hildebrand, 1962

 

The World of Elementary Particles

 by Kenneth W. Ford, 1963

 

Foresight and Understanding:

 An Enquiry into the Aims of Science

 by Stephen Toulmin, 1963

 

 Science and Education

 by Thomas Huxley, 1964

 

The Crime of Galileo

 by Giorgio De Santillana, 1965

 

The Phenomenon of Life:

 Toward A Philosophical Biology

by Hans Jonas, 1966

 

 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn, 1970

 

Explanation and Understanding

 by Georg Henrik von Wright, 1971

 

Wholeness and the Implicate Order

by David Bohm, 1980

 

The Cosmic Code: 

Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature 

by Heinz R. Pagels, 1984

 

 A Brief History of Time:

From the Big Bang to Black Holes

 by Stephen W. Hawking, 1988

 

Chaos:

Making A New Science 

by James Gleick, 1988

 

The Tao Of Physics

by Fritjof Capra, 1984

The Web Of Life:

A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

by Fritjof Capra, 1997

 

 

Unweaving the Rainbow:

Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

by Richard Dawkins, 1998

 

The Elegant Universe

by Brian Greene, 1999

 

The Dancing Wu Li Masters:

          An Overview of the New Physics          

 by Gary Zukav, 2001

 

The Canon:

A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

by Natalie Angier, 2007

 

The Human Touch:

Our Part in the Creation of a Universe

by Michael Fran, 2007

 

The Black Hole War:

 My Battle with Stephen Hawking

to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

by Leonard Susskind, 2008