Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science / Ernest Nagel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagel, Ernest, author.

Series:

The John Dewey Essays in Philosophy

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1979]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Consists of the third of the John Dewey lectures delivered at Columbia University under the department of Philosophy and eleven additional essays. Focuses on the logic of scientific inquiry and some of its limitations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

1. Modern Science in Philosophical Perspective

2. Theory and Observation

3. Some Reflections on the Use of Language in the Natural Sciences

4. The Quest for Uncertainty

5. Philosophical Depreciations of Scientific Method

6. Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations

7. Carnap's Theory of Induction

8. "Impossible Numbers": A Chapter in the History of Modern Logic

9. The Formation of Modern Conceptions of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry

10. Determinism and Development

11. Some Notes on Determinism

12. Teleology Revisited

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231891714

0231891717

OCLC:

1100454964