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Creative Understanding

Name: Creative Understanding
Author: Torretti
ISBN: 9780226808352

by Torretti

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"A pleasure to read. Gracefully written by a scholar well grounded in the relevant philosophical, historical, and technical background. . . . a helpfully clarifying review and analysis of some issues of importance to recent philosophy of science and a source of some illuminating insights."—Burke Townsend, Philosophy of Science

About the Author, Torretti

Roberto Torretti is professor of philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico and editor of the journal Dialogos. Among his several books is Relativity and Geometry.

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Through a rigorous and highly sophisticated examination and interpretation of examples from the history of science, and a critical discussion of good and not so good ideas from recent philosophical literature, Torretti (philosophy, U. of Puerto Rico) sheds considerable (and welcome) light on the means and ends of the intellectual enterprise of physics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)