History and Philosophy of Science

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• Address Delivered Before the British Association Assembled at Belfast — John Tyndall — John Tyndall’s 1874 Belfast address traces scientific naturalism, matter, evolution, consciousness, and the historical relation of science and religion.
• An Introduction to the History of Science — Walter Libby — Walter Libby's complete illustrated history of science from ancient Egypt and Babylonia through radioactivity, aviation, and democratic culture.
• Chance, Love, and Logic — Charles S. Peirce — Charles S. Peirce’s philosophical essays develop pragmatism, scientific inquiry, probability, continuity, mind, chance, and evolutionary love.
• Classics of Modern Science — William S. Knickerbocker — William S. Knickerbocker’s anthology gathers thirty-six primary selections in astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, and scientific method.
• Daedalus; or, Science and the Future — J. B. S. Haldane — J. B. S. Haldane considers the future social, moral, and religious consequences of developments in physics, chemistry, energy, and biology.
• Fact and Fable in Psychology — Joseph Jastrow — Joseph Jastrow examines occult belief, psychical research, deception, hypnotism, perception, involuntary movement, and dreams in an early psychological collection.
• Gallio; or, The Tyranny of Science — J. W. N. Sullivan — J. W. N. Sullivan examines the authority and limits of scientific explanation in relation to philosophy, art, value, psychology, and spiritual life.
• Gestalt Psychology — Wolfgang Köhler — Wolfgang Köhler presents Gestalt psychology through critiques of behaviorism and introspection and studies of organization, behavior, memory, and insight.
• Icarus; or, The Future of Science — Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell replies to Haldane by examining how scientific power may amplify political domination, war, organization, and social control.
• Natural Philosophy — Wilhelm Ostwald — Thomas Seltzer translation — Wilhelm Ostwald develops a historical philosophy of scientific knowledge, logic, mathematics, physics, biology, mind, and society.
• On the Philosophy of Discovery — William Whewell — William Whewell traces philosophies of knowledge and scientific discovery from antiquity through modern induction, German idealism, and theology.
• Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy — John F. W. Herschel — John F. W. Herschel's complete three-part discourse on scientific method, physical inquiry, and the organization and progress of natural philosophy.
• Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect — Alfred North Whitehead — Alfred North Whitehead develops a philosophy of symbolic reference, perception, language, social order, and symbolically conditioned action.
• The Analysis of Mind — Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell analyzes consciousness, instinct, desire, causation, perception, memory, language, belief, emotion, will, and mind.
• The Concept of Nature — Alfred North Whitehead — Alfred North Whitehead develops a natural philosophy of events, time, space, motion, objects, relativity, and physical concepts.
• The Mind and the Brain — Alfred Binet — Alfred Binet examines matter, mind, consciousness, psychology, and mind-body theories in a complete historical translation.
• The Misbehaviorists — Harvey Wickham — Harvey Wickham surveys and attacks behaviorism, psychoanalysis, popular science, evolution, eugenics, and secular criticism in a 1928 polemic.
• The Story of the Mind — James Mark Baldwin — James Mark Baldwin's complete illustrated introduction to introspective, comparative, child, physiological, experimental, educational, and social psychology.