Metaphysics
Handouts
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
Bibliography
Philosophy of Science
The Parmenides and The Timaeus
by Plato
Metaphysics
by Aristotle
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
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
Science for the Citizen
by Lancelot Hogben, 1938
The Common Sense of Science by
J. Bronowski, 1951
Science and Human Values
by J. Bronowski, 195 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
by Fritjof Capra, 1997
A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
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
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