Authors:Peter Machamer, Rick Grush, Peter McLaughlin,
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: phil, hist, scienc, konstanz, pitt, amp, method, neurosciences, theory
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-03-22
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0822941406
ISBN-13: 9780822941408

Theory and Method in the Neurosciences surveys the and problems. The essays explore basic questions about how to relate theories of neuroscience and cognition, the multilevel character of such theories, and their experimental bases. Philosophers and scientists (and some who are both) examine the topics of explanation and mechanisms, simulation and computation, imaging and animal models that raise questions about the forefront of research in cognitive neuroscience. Their work will stimulate new thinking in anyone interested in the mind or brain and in recent theories of their connections.

Author: Peter McLaughlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, studies, philosophy, biology, systems, reproducing, explain, functional, explanation, functions
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-12-18
List price: $92.00
ISBN-10: 0521782333
ISBN-13: 9780521782333

This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science that has occurred over the past fifty years. He discusses the history of the philosophical question of teleology, and provides a comprehensive review of the postwar literature on functional explanation. The book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of

Author: Paul Moorcroft and Peter McLaughlin
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Keywords: war, rhodesian
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 184415694X
ISBN-13: 9781844156948

This book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of U.D.I. (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against the "guerillas" by the security forces and the intensity of the fighting will surprise readers. Atrocities were undoubtedly committed by both sides but equally the protagonists were playing for very high stakes.This is more than just a book on military operations. It provides expert analysi

Authors:Peter F. Dale, John D. McLaughlin,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: systems, information, spatial, administration, land
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2000-03-23
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0198233906
ISBN-13: 9780198233909

This interdisciplinary work provides a high level overview of recent advances in building formal property systems throughout the world and reviews the role of property in advancing a society’s economic and social agenda. It undertakes an in-depth examination of the land administration infrastructure required to support these modern property systems, giving particular attention to survey, registration, valuation, and land use control functions.

Authors:Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: grossmann, henryk, boston, studies, science, philosophy, hessen, boris, roots, economic, scientific, revolution, texts, social
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2009-08-06
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1402096038
ISBN-13: 9781402096037

The volume collects classics of Marxist historiography of science, including a new translation of Boris Hessen’s “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia” (1931), Henryk Grossmann’s “The Social Foundation of Mechanistic Philosophy and Manufacture” (1935) and his Descartes’ New Ideal of Science. Universal Science vs. Science of an Elite, published here for the first time. These three papers, along with two very short pieces, present the classical Marxist analysis of the relation of science and technology. In a detailed introductory essay the editors analyze the main

Authors:A. S. V. Burgen, Peter McLaughlin, Jurgen Mittelstra
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Keywords: wissenschaft, und, philosophie, progress, idea
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 1996-12
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 3110153939
ISBN-13: 9783110153934

Authors:Martha R. Field, Joan B. McLaughlin, Jack McLaughlin
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: catharine, cole, writings, travel, voyages, louisiana
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2006-02-03
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1578068266
ISBN-13: 9781578068265

When nature exudes in a swamp in Louisiana it is rich, tropical, juicy, dark, verminy, repellant and lovely all in one," wrote Catharine Cole in 1889. "It is like a coffin crowned with flowers; a death trap baited with roses." Writing under the pseudonym Catharine Cole, Martha R. Field (1855-1898) became the first full-time newswoman for the New Orleans Daily Picayune in 1881. For more than a decade she was the woman’s page editor and wrote a Sunday column, "Catharine Cole’s Letter," that established her as one of the most popular writers in the South. Cole wrote fiction, essays, e