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The significance of the hypothetical in natural science / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Heidelberger, Michael.
Schiemann, Gregor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Reasoning.
Hypothesis.
Science--Methodology.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Naturwissenschaftler und Philosophen haben im Lauf der Wissenschaftsgeschichte unterschiedliche Auffassungen vom Hypothesencharakter empirischer Theorien entwickelt. Der Band widmet sich drei verschiedenen Epochen, in denen der Erkenntnisoptimismus erfolgreicher Wissenschaftspraxis auf ein wachsendes Bewusstsein der Grenzen naturwissenschaftlicher Einsicht trifft: der Frühen Neuzeit (Kopernikus, Kepler, Bacon, Galilei, Descartes, Boyle, Newton, Locke, mit einem Rückblick auf die mittelalterlichen Autoren Maimonides und Gersonides), dem mechanistischen Weltbild des 19. Jahrhunderts (Herschel, Whewell, Mill, C. G. J. Jacobi, Carl Neumann, Boutroux, Ch. S. Peirce, mit einem Rückblick auf Lagrange und d'Alembert) und dem 20. Jahrhundert mit dem Aufkommen der modernen Physik (Hertz, Poincaré, Vaihinger, Duhem, Heisenberg, Popper). Abgerundet wird der Band durch Studien zur Gegenwartsdiskussion des wissenschaftlichen Realismus und den Chancen einer hypothetischen Metaphysik der Natur.
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction / Heidelberger, Michael / Schiemann, Gregor
Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / McMullin, Ernan
Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Specht, Rainer
Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Snyder, Laura J.
From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory" / Pulte, Helmut
Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux / Heidelberger, Michael
Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Hüttemann, Andreas
Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré / Heinzmann, Gerhard
Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Walter, Scott
Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? / Bouriau, Christophe
Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Schiemann, Gregor
"Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Freudenthal, Gad
Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Bartels, Andreas
The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Nordmann, Alfred
Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Esfeld, Michael
Backmatter
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612714498
9781282714496
128271449X
9783110210620
3110210622
OCLC:
642692751

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