05482oam 2200697I 450 991096745330332120251116182050.01-136-65463-10-415-67966-40-203-80634-41-136-65464-X10.4324/9780203806340 (CKB)2550000001096190(EBL)1244558(OCoLC)852758119(SSID)ssj0000918630(PQKBManifestationID)11527911(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918630(PQKBWorkID)10908681(PQKB)10283673(OCoLC)854569688(MiAaPQ)EBC1244558(Au-PeEL)EBL1244558(CaPaEBR)ebr10728231(CaONFJC)MIL502768(OCoLC)852159301(FINmELB)ELB136153(EXLCZ)99255000000109619020180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScience, philosophy and physical geography /Rob Inkpen and Graham Wilson2nd ed.New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (558 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-67965-6 1-299-71517-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Structure of the book; Chapter 1. Ideas, change and stability in physical geography; What are ideas and how do they change?; Johannes Umbgrove and plate tectonics; Is there a history of ideas in physical geography?; What are the important concepts in physical geography?; Chaos, complexity and Earth Systems Science (ESS); Summary; Chapter 2. The nature of reality; What is reality?Views of different philosophiesCase 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: The EU Water Framework Directive and the classification of surface water status; Case Study: Classification of soilsEvents - mega entities?Summary; Chapter 4. Forms of explanation; Explanation in physical geography; What is explanation?; Causality; Case Study: Necessary and sufficient conditions; Explanatory frameworks; Case Study: Abduction as a form of explanation in environmental reconstruction; Case Study: Linking theory and practice; The problems of causation; Summary; Chapter 5. Probing reality; Probing and the dialogue with reality; Measurement systems; Case Study: Triangulation of techniques - measurement of surface form on rocks; Practice in physical geographyCase Study: Linking process and form - intensive study of bedformsCase Study: Probing reality - fluvial flow structure; Case Study: Multiple working hypotheses; Summary; Chapter 6. The field; What is 'field science'?; The philosophies of fieldwork; Case Study: Local underdeterminism and the Younger Dryas event; 'Simplifying the field' - laboratory and experimental research; Monitoring the field; Fieldwork as a reflective and imaginative practice; Summary; Chapter 7. Systems - the framework for physical geography?; Systems analysis in physical geography; Application of systems thinkingSystems and changeCase Study: Systems and landscape sensitivity; Summary; Chapter 8. Change and complexity; Equilibrium - an ex-concept?; Chaos and complexity - more of the same?; Case study: Chaos theory and ecological systems; Emergence and hierarchies - scale revisited?; Case Study: Scale and (dis)connectivity; Case Complexity and change - landscape evolution and organization; Summary; Chapter 9. Modelling; Conceptual approaches to modelling; Types of models; Conceptual models; Analogue models; Deterministic models; Empirical- statistical modelsCase Study: Numerical modelling of Late Quaternary relative sea-level change and glacial isostatic adjustment<P>This accessible and engaging text explores the relationship between philosophy, science and physical geography. It addresses an imbalance that exists in opinion, teaching and to a lesser extent research, between a philosophically enriched human geography and a perceived philosophically empty physical geography.</P><P>The text challenges the myth that there is a single self-evident scientific method that can, and is, applied in a straightforward manner by physical geographers. It demonstrates the variety of alternative philosophical perspectives and emphasizes the difference that the real woPhysical geographyPhilosophyPhysical geographyPhilosophy.910/.0201Inkpen Robert1964-1871620Wilson Graham170171MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967453303321Science, philosophy and physical geography4480507UNINA