UID:
edocfu_9958353738602883
Format:
1 online resource (384p.)
ISBN:
9783110210620
Content:
Die Aufsatzsammlung beschäftigt sich mit der Art und Weise, wie im Lauf der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften über den hypothetischen Charakter von Erfahrungstheorien nachgedacht wurde. Der Bogen der behandelten Auffassungen spannt sich dabe
Content:
How was the hypothetical character of theories of experience thought about throughout the history of science? The essays cover periods from the middle ages to the 19th and 20th centuries. It is fascinating to see how natural scientists and philosophers were increasingly forced to realize that a natural science without hypotheses is not possible.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Hypothesis in Early Modern Science --
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Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke’s Realm --
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Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill --
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From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann’s “Principles --
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of the Galilean–Newtonian Theory” --
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Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux --
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Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz’s Philosophy of Science --
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Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré --
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Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré’s Defense of Galilei Spacetime --
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Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? --
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Werner Heisenberg’s Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science --
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“Instrumentalism” and “Realism” as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides --
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Hypotheticity and Realism – Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism --
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The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses --
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Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-020694-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110210620
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210620
