Stefano Gattei

Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science (eBook, ePUB)

Rationality without Foundations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rectifying misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper's philosophy, Gattei reconstructs the logic of Popper's development to show how one problem and its tentative solution led to a new problem.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134182947
• Artikelnr.: 38259724

Autorenporträt

Stefano Gattei graduated in Philosophy in Milan and was awarded a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol, with a dissertation on Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic turn" and the legacy of Logical Positivism. After lecturing in Milan, Padua, Vercelli and Pisa, he was fellow at Columbia University and is currently assistant professor at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca.

He has published widely on contemporary issues in the philosophy of science, ranging from the incommensurability thesis, the dynamic of conceptual change, rationality, relativism, and relativism. Presently, he is a member of the Philosophy of Science Association, of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, of the SILFS, Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze and of the Società italiana di storici della fisica e dell'astronomia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Critical Rationalism Chapter 1: Young Popper's Intellectual
Revolution Chapter 2: Science and Philosophy Chapter 3: Metaphysics Chapter
4: Popper and Kuhn: Clashing Metaphysics Chapter 5: The Ethical Nature of
Popper's Understanding of Rationality