|
William Herbert Newton-Smith (born May 25, 1943) is a Canadian philosopher of science. His undergraduate degree from Queen's University was in Mathematics and Philosophy, in 1966. He took an MA from Cornell University in Philosophy, in 1968, and a DPhil in philosophy from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1974. His working life before retirement was mainly as a Fellow of Balliol. He is married to Canadian journalist Nancy Durham and is the father of Toronto defence lawyer Apple Newton-Smith and economist Rain Newton-Smith. In 2003 Newton-Smith and Durham became the first to grow lavender on a field scale in Wales. They are now the sole distillers of lavender oil in Wales. Their company, Welsh Lavender Ltd, produces face and body creams. Newton-Smith was previously married to the Canadian author Dorris Heffron. ==Works== *The Structure of Time (1980) *The Rationality of Science (1981) *Logic (1984) *Modelling the Mind (1990) editor with K. V. Wilkes *Popper in China (1992) editor with J. Tianji *Chapter 1 - Popper, ciência e racionalidade. In Karl Popper: Filosofia e problemas (1997), organized by Anthony O'Hear, translated to Portuguese by Luiz Paulo Rouanet. Editora Unesp. Cambridge University Press. *The Companion to the Philosophy of Science (2000) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Newton-Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|