Critical Approaches to Science and Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bunge, Mario

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of essays utilizes Karl R. Popper's critical vision in the study of philosophy proper, logic, mathematics, science as method and theory, and finally to the study of society and history. The core position of the volume is that the progress of knowledge is a fragmented process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 481
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351313063
• Artikelnr.: 59443444

Autorenporträt

Mario Bunge

Inhaltsangabe

The Critical Approach to Philosophy
1: Rationality versus the Theory of Rationality
2: Reflections on Karl Popper's Epistemology
3: What Hume Might Have Said to Kant
4: Strength, Confirmation, Compatibility
5: A Question about Plato's Theory of Ideas
6: Popper and Wittgenstein
7: Confirmation, the Paradoxes, and Positivism
8: Overlooked Aspects of Popper's Contributions to Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method
The Critical Approach to Logic and Mathematics
9: The Elimination of Variables by Regular Combinators 1
10: On Popper's Use of the Notion of Absolute Logical Probability
11: Aristotle's Theory of Modal Syllogisms and its Interpretation
12: Logical Terminology and Theory of Meaning
The Critical Approach to Science
13: The Nature of Scientific Problems and Their Roots in Metaphysics
14: On the Problem of Truth and Understanding in Science
15: The Mach Principle
16: Phenomenological Theories
17: The Simple Laws of Science and History
18: The Neurophysiological Basis of Experience
19: Realism and Instrumentalism: Comments on the Logic of Factual Support
20: Observation and the Quantum
21: Popper on Irreversibility
22: The Theory of Complex Phenomena
23: The Agreement between Mathematics and Physical Phenomena
24: On the Reality of Elementary Particles
The Critical Approach to Society and History
25: Social Science and Moral Philosophy: A Critical Approach to the Value Problem in the Social Sciences
26: Popper and the Critical Philosophy of History
27: The Open Society and Its Enemies
28: The Tradition of General Knowledge
29: Philosophy of History Before Historicism