Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science

Herausgeber: Anapolitanos, Dionysios; Tsinorema, Stavroula; Baltas, Aristides

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of papers demonstrates the links among the philosophical points of view, areas of focus and methods of treatment used in examining the many facets of scientific inquiry. It should be of interest to philosophers of science and scientists involved in a variety of different fields.

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Produktdetails

• Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 148mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780847681754
• ISBN-10: 0847681750
• Artikelnr.: 22333840

Autorenporträt

Dionysios Anapolitanos is professor of history and philosophy at the University of Athens. Aristides Baltas is professor of physics at the National Technical University in Athens. Stavroula Tsinorema is professor of philosophy at the University of Ioannina. Dionysios Anapolitanos is professor of history and philosophy at the University of Athens. Aristides Baltas is professor of physics at the National Technical University in Athens. Stavroula Tsinorema is professor of philosophy at the University of Ioannina.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Part I: Language and Logic
Chapter 4 Understanding and Reference Chapter 5 On the Importance of
Knowing What One is Talking About Chapter 6 Frege's Logicist Platonism
Chapter 7 Knowledge by "Symbolic Constructions" Chapter 8 Indiscriminate
Confirmation and Relevance Logic Chapter 9 Part II: Discovering and
Explaining Chapter 10 Explanation and Mechanism: Reflections on the Ontic
Conception of Explanation Chapter 11 Choice, Time, and Methodology in
Peirce's Philosophy of Nature Chapter 12 Chance and Explanation in Peirce's
Cosmology Chapter 13 Creative Discovery Processes Chapter 14 The
Hermeneutics of Scientific Discovery (A Comment on Aharon Kantorovitch)
Part 15 Part III: Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, and Their Constraints
Chapter 16 Theory and Experiment in the Study of Brownian Motion and
Radioactivity Chapter 17 How to Learn from Experiments Chapter 18
Meaningless Numbers Chapter 19 What, if Anything, Is an Experiment in
Mathematics? Chapter 20 Epistemological Aspects of the Application of
Mathematics to Itself Part 21 Part IV: History and Philosophy of Science in
Context Chapter 22 The Rise of Scientific Philosophy Revisited Chapter 23
Models and Reality: An Historical Approach Chapter 24 Scientific Realism
and History of Science: A Comment Chapter 25 Methodological Relativism in
the History of Science Chapter 26 Science and Culture: On the Logic of the
Theory of Culture Part 27 Part V: The Ways of the Mind Chapter 28
Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Mechanics, Neuroscience, and the
Philosophy of Mind Chapter 29 Does Mind Matter? Artificial Intelligence,
Computational Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind Chapter 30 In the
Theoretician's Laboratory: Thought Experiments as Mental Modeling Chapter
31 The Failure of Freud's Explanation of Counter-Wish Dreams Chapter 32
Index