Science Philosophy and Physical Geography 1st Edition by Robert Inkpen, Graham Wilson ISBN 9780415279543, 0415279542

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ISBN 10: 0415279542

ISBN 13: 9780415279543

Author: Robert Inkpen, Graham Wilson 

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Table of contents: 

Chapter 1: Ideas, Change and Stability in Physical Geography

• What are ideas and how do they change?

• Is there a history of ideas in physical geography?

• What are the important concepts in physical geography?

• Summary

Chapter 2: The Nature of Reality

• What is reality?

• Views of different philosophies

• Case Study: Critical rationalism, an example from environmental reconstruction

• Reality as a dialogue

• Theory, reality and practice

• Case Study: Myths and theories

• Physical geography as historical science

• Summary

Chapter 3: Entities and Classification

• Introduction

• What are entities?

• Entities and kinds

• Case Study: Species as natural kinds

• Case Study: Magnitude and frequency – entities out of context

• Classification

• Case Study: Classification of soils

• Summary

Chapter 4: Forms of Explanation

• Explanation in physical geography

• What is explanation?

• Causality

• Case Study: Necessary and sufficient conditions

• Explanatory frameworks

• Case Study: General and token-type landslides

• Summary

Chapter 5: Probing Reality

• Probing and the dialogue with reality

• Measurement systems

• Case Study: Multiple working hypotheses

• Case Study: Triangulation of techniques – measurement of surface form on rocks

• Practice in physical geography

• Case Study: Linking process and form – intensive study of bedforms

• Case Study: Probing reality – fluvial flow structures

• Computer simulation of reality

• Summary

Chapter 6: Systems – The Framework for Physical Geography?

• Systems analysis in physical geography

• Application of systems thinking

• Systems and change

• Case Study: Systems and landscape sensitivity

• Summary

Chapter 7: Change and Complexity

• Equilibrium: an ex-concept?

• Chaos and complexity: more of the same?

• Emergence and hierarchies: scale revisited?

• Case Study: Complexity and change – landscape evolution and organization

• Summary

Chapter 8: Physical Geography and Societies

• Paradigms and social networks

• Social construction and physical geography?

• Ethics in physical geography: reflection required?

• Physical and human geography: division or integration?

• Summary

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