This volume is a collection of Adolf Grünbaum's most discussed essays on Scientific Rationality. It covers the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called scientific and asks whether it is plausible to draw a clear distinction between science and non-science as was famously proposed by Karl Popper.
This volume is a collection of Adolf Grünbaum's most discussed essays on Scientific Rationality. It covers the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called scientific and asks whether it is plausible to draw a clear distinction between science and non-science as was famously proposed by Karl Popper.
Adolf Grünbaum is Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as co-chairman of its Center for Philosophy of Science (since 1978), Research Professor of Psychiatry (since 1979), and Primary Research Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (since 2006). He is the author of 15 books, including this 3-volume collection of his papers and lectures, as well as around 400 articles in journals and books
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface and Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part I: Scientific Rationality * 1. Is Falsifiability the Touchstone of Scientific Rationality? Karl Popper Versus Inductivism (1976) * 2. The Degeneration of Popper's Theory of Demarcation (1989) * 3. The Falsifiability of Theories: Total or Partial? A Contemporary Evaluation of the Duhem-Quine Thesis (1962) * Appendix: A Letter from W.V.O. Quine of June 1, 1962 * Part II: Determinism and the Human Condition * 4. Free Will and Laws of Human Behavior (1972) * 5. Historical Determinism, Social Activism, and Predictions in the Social Sciences (1956) * 6. In Defense of Secular Humanism (1995) * Part III: Philosophy of the 20th Century Physical Cosmologies, and the Critique of Their Theological Interpretations * 7. The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology (2004) * 8. Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology (1998) * 9. A New Critique of Theological Interpretations of Physical Cosmology (2000) * 10. Pseudo-Creation of the Big Bang (1990)
* Preface and Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part I: Scientific Rationality * 1. Is Falsifiability the Touchstone of Scientific Rationality? Karl Popper Versus Inductivism (1976) * 2. The Degeneration of Popper's Theory of Demarcation (1989) * 3. The Falsifiability of Theories: Total or Partial? A Contemporary Evaluation of the Duhem-Quine Thesis (1962) * Appendix: A Letter from W.V.O. Quine of June 1, 1962 * Part II: Determinism and the Human Condition * 4. Free Will and Laws of Human Behavior (1972) * 5. Historical Determinism, Social Activism, and Predictions in the Social Sciences (1956) * 6. In Defense of Secular Humanism (1995) * Part III: Philosophy of the 20th Century Physical Cosmologies, and the Critique of Their Theological Interpretations * 7. The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology (2004) * 8. Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology (1998) * 9. A New Critique of Theological Interpretations of Physical Cosmology (2000) * 10. Pseudo-Creation of the Big Bang (1990)
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