Continental philosophy of science / edited by Gary Gutting.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutting, Gary.

Series:

Blackwell readings in Continental philosophy ; 6.

Blackwell readings in Continental philosophy ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Philosophy, European--20th century.

Philosophy, European.

Physical Description:

xii, 332 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Summary:

Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guide to the major twentieth-century French and German philosophical thinking on science. The book refutes the view that twentieth-century continental thought is anti-scientific, and shows how continental thinkers offer distinctive perspectives that both complement and fruitfully interact with analytic philosophy of science.

Collected here are primary texts by Husserl, Heidegger, Foucault, Deleuze, Irigaray, and Habermas, along with previously untranslated essays by Bergson, Bachelard, and Canguilhem, and new translations of work by Hegel and Cassirer. Each primary text is paired with commentary by leading contemporary scholars, including Terry Pinkard, Jean Gayon, Michael Friedman, Richard Tieszen, Joseph Rouse, Mary Tiles, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Linda Alcoff, Todd May, Penelope Deutscher, and Axel Honneth. Gary Gutting's introduction, moreover, presents a unified interpretative survey of continental work on philosophy of science.

Contents:

Introduction: What Is Continental Philosophy of Science? / Gary Gutting 1

Hegel 17

1 Speculative Naturphilosophie and the Development of the Empirical Sciences: Hegel's Perspective / Terry Pinkard 19

2 Naturphilosophie / G. W. F. Hegel 35

Bergson 41

3 Bergson's Spiritualist Metaphysics and the Sciences / Jean Gayon 43

4 Psychophysical Parallelism and Positive Metaphysics / Henri Bergson 59

Cassirer 69

5 Ernst Cassirer and the Philosophy of Science / Michael Friedman 71

6 From Substance and Function / Ernst Cassirer 84

Husserl 91

7 Science as a Triumph of the Human Spirit and Science in Crisis: Husserl and the Fortunes of Reason / Richard Tieszen 93

8 From Introduction to the Logical Investigations and from The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology / Edmund Husserl 113

Heidegger 121

9 Heidegger on Science and Naturalism / Joseph Rouse 123

10 From On "Time and Being" / Martin Heidegger 142

Bachelard 155

11 Technology, Science, and Inexact Knowledge: Bachelard's Non-Cartesian Epistemology / Mary Tiles 157

12 From Essai sur la connaissance approchee / Gaston Bachelard 176

Canguilhem 185

13 Reassessing the Historical Epistemology of Georges Canguilhem / Hans-Jorg Rheinberger 187

14 The Object of the History of Sciences / Georges Canguilhem 198

Foucault 209

15 Foucault's Philosophy of Science: Structures of Truth/Structures of Power / Linda Martin Alcoff 211

16 From The History of Sexuality, vol. I: An Introduction / Michel Foucault 224

Deleuze 237

17 Gilles Deleuze, Difference, and Science / Todd May 239

18 From What Is Philosophy? / Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari 258

Irigaray 263

19 On Asking the Wrong Question ("In Science, Is the Subject Sexed?") / Penelope Deutscher 265

20 In Science, Is the Subject Sexed? / Luce Irigaray 283

Habermas 293

21 Bisected Rationality: The Frankfurt School's Critique of Science / Axel Honneth 295

22 Knowledge and Human Interests: A General Perspective / Jurgen Habermas 310.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631236090

0631236104

OCLC:

56010908