Format:
X, 852 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
9780812696622
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Discourse on a new method, or a manifesto for a synthetic approach to history and philosophy of science
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Pt. 1. The Newtonian era ; The axiomatic tradition in 17th century mechanics
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The reduction to the pristine state in Robert Boyle's corpuscular philosophy
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Newton as historically-minded philosopher
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Newton's forces in Kant's critique
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Pt. 2. Kant ; Kant and Lambert on geometrical postulates in the reform of metaphysics
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Two studies in the reception of Kant's philosophy of arithmetic
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Philosophy, geometry, and logic in Leibniz, Wolff, and the early Kant
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Kant on attractive and repulsive force : the balancing argument
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Mathematical method in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel
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Pt. 3. Logical positivism and neo-Kantianism ; Validity in the cultural sciences?
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Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman : Kantian or Hegelian dynamics of reason?
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From Mach to Carnap: a tale of confusion
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Quine's objection and Carnap's Aufbau
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"Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural" : Einstein, general relativity, and the contingent a priori
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Pt. 4. History and philosophy of physics ; How Hume and Mach helped Einstein find special relativity
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The paracletes of quantum gravity
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Dirac and mathematical beauty
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Theory, coordination, and empirical meaning in modern physics
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The "relativized a priori" : an appreciation and a critique
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Pt. 5. Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science ; The role of the foundations of mathematics in the development of Carnap's theory of theories
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Synthesis, the synthetic a priori, and the origins of modern space-time theory
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How should we describe scientific change? or : a neo-Popperian reads Friedman
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The construction of reason : Kant, Carnap, Kuhn, and beyond
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Back to "back to Kant"
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Pt. 6. Michael Friedman responds ; Synthetic history reconsidered
Language:
English
Keywords:
Naturwissenschaften
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Philosophie
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
