The philosophy of science as it is known today emerged out of a combination of three traditional concerns: the classification of the sciences, methodology and the philosophy of nature. Included in the series "Works in the Philosophy of Science 1830-1914" are all three of these interrelated areas. The titles should be of interest to both the philosopher of science and to the historian of ideas. The former will be able to trace present-day concerns back to their origins; the latter should find it a useful source for the study of Victorian conceptions of science. The work of a polymath, Ernst Mach's "Analysis" was translated into English in 1914, and presents his extreme empiricism. The object of science, he writes, is just "the connection of phenomena"; theories are likened to "dry leaves which fall away" when they have ceased to be useful.
- ISBN10 1855067595
- ISBN13 9781855067592
- Publish Date 1 March 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
- Edition Facsimile of 1914 ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 433
- Language English