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Discourse on a new method : reinvigorating the marriage of history and philosophy of science / edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson; with a concluding essay by Michael Friedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Science--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1073 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Open Court, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Addressing a wide range of topics, from Newton to Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science, these essays critically examine themes that have been central to the influential work of philosopher Michael Friedman. Special focus is given to Friedman's revealing study of both history of science and philosophy in his work on Kant, Newton, Einstein, and other major figures. This interaction of history and philosophy is the subject of the editors' ""manifesto"" and serves to both explain and promote the essential ties between two disciplines usually regarded as unrelated.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 - Introduction Discourse on a New Method, or a Manifesto for a Synthetic ...; "Remarks on the History of Science and the History of Philosophy"; A Tradition of Historical Philosophy and Philosophical History; Synthesis and 'Synthetic History'; Unity and the Growth of Knowledge; NOTES; REFERENCES; PART I - The Newtonian Era; 2 - The Axiomatic Tradition in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics; 3 - The Reduction to the Pristine State in Robert Boyle's Corpuscular Philosophy; 4 - Newton as Historically-Minded Philosopher; 5 - Newton's Forces in Kant's Critique
- PART II - Kant6 - Kant and Lambert on Geometrical Postulates in the Reform of Metaphysics; 7 - Two Studies in the Reception of Kant's Philosophy of Arithmetic; 8 - Philosophy, Geometry, and Logic in Leibniz, Wolff, and the Early Kant; 9 - Kant on Attractive and Repulsive Force: The Balancing Argument; 10 - Mathematical Method in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel; PART III - Logical Positivism and Neo-Kantianism; 11 - Validity in the Cultural Sciences?; 12 - Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman: Kantian or Hegelian Dynamics of Reason?; 13 - From Mach to Carnap: A Tale of Confusion
- 14 - Quine's Objection and Carnap's Aufbau15 - "Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural." ...; PART IV - History and Philosophy of Physics; 16 - How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity; 17 - The Paracletes of Quantum Gravity; 18 - Beauty Doth of Itself Persuade: Dirac on Quantization, Mathematical ...; 19 - Theory, Coordination, and Empirical Meaning in Modern Physics; 20 - The "Relativized A Priori": An Appreciation and a Critique; PART V - Post-Kuhnian Philosophy of Science
- 21 - The Role of the Foundations of Mathematics in the Development of Carnap's ...22 - The Construction of Reason: Kant, Carnap, Kuhn, and Beyond; 23 - How Should We Describe Scientific Change? Or: A Neo-Popperian Reads Friedman; 24 - Synthesis, the Synthetic A Priori, and the Origins of Modern Space-Time Theory; 25 - Back to "Back to Kant"; PART VI - Concluding Essay; 26 - Synthetic History Reconsidered*; Contributors; Index; Copyright Page
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-87739-9
- 9786612877391
- 0-8126-9722-7
- OCLC:
- 685185816
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