ISBN: 9789027705686

Polish philosophy of science has been the beneficiary of three powerful creative streams of scientific and philosophical thought. First and fore. Subtitle Philosophical Problems of the Ev… Meer...

Polish philosophy of science has been the beneficiary of three powerful creative streams of scientific and philosophical thought. First and fore. Subtitle Philosophical Problems of the Evolution of Science. The Nile on eBay   Between Experience and Metaphysics by S. Amsterdamski Which goals and standards guide science education across the world? This first report of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) explores this question by examining the rich data collected in the TIMSS Curriculum Analysis. This is a study without precedent in scale or detail. It includes an exhaustive, page-by-page inventory of science content and other pedagogical characteristics collected from hundreds of textbooks and curriculum guides from almost 50 countries. These data document many important features of these countries' mathematics education curricula. The book examines important features of curriculum policy across the TIMSS countries, especially the role of textbooks and curriculum guides. It also portrays similarities and differences in science curricula in the succession of objectives across grades. Additionally, it details characteristics of the science curriculum as embodied in textbooks and curriculum guides intended for select grades. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with science education standards, curriculum policy, cross-national educational comparisons, and science pedagogy. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description Polish philosophy of science has been the beneficiary of three powerful creative streams of scientific and philosophical thought. First and fore- most was the Lwow-Warsaw school of Polish analytical philosophy founded by Twardowski and continued in their several ways by Les- niewski, Lukasiewicz, and Tarski, the great mathematical and logical philosophers, by Kotarbinski, probably the most distinguished teacher, public figure, and culturally influential philosopher of the inter-war and post-war period, and by Ajdukiewicz, the linguistic philosopher who was intellectually sympathetic with the anti-irrationalist (as he would say), logistic and meta-theoretical inquiries of the Vienna Circle. Second was independent and lively Polish Marxism, with its fine development of social research under Krzywicki, a social anthropologist and younger contemporary of Engels, and then after the war the economist Lange, the philosophers Schaff, Kolakowski, Baczko, and many others.Finally there has been a wide range of philosophical, scientific and humanistic scholar- ship which lends its various qualities to the understanding of both the logic of science and the historical situation of the sciences: we mention only that great and humane physicist Infeld, the phenomenologist with deep epistemological interest Ingarden, the historian of scientific ideas Zawirski, the historian of philosophy and aesthetics Tatarkiewicz, and the mathematical logicians such as Mostowski and Szaniawski. Table of Contents I. Radical Empiricism and the Anomalies in the Knowledge of Science.- II. Troubles with the Problem of Demarcation.- III. The Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification.- IV. Facts and Theories: Radical Empiricism.- V. Facts and Theories: Conventionalism.- VI. Reformation and Counter-reformation: Paradigms and Research Programs.- VII. Revolutions in Science: The Accumulation of Knowledge and the Correspondence of Theories.- VIII. Revolutions in Science: Science and Philosophy.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects. Long Description Polish philosophy of science has been the beneficiary of three powerful creative streams of scientific and philosophical thought. First and fore Details ISBN9027705682 Short Title BETWEEN EXPERIENCE & METAPHYSI Publisher Springer Language English ISBN-10 9027705682 ISBN-13 9789027705686 Media Book Format Hardcover Series Number 35 Year 1975 Publication Date 1975-06-30 Imprint Kluwer Academic Publishers Subtitle Philosophical Problems of the Evolution of Science Place of Publication Dordrecht Country of Publication Netherlands Translated from Polish Pages 198 Illustrations XVIII, 198 p. DOI 10.1023/b135316 Author S. Amsterdamski Edition Description 1975 ed. Series Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Edition 1975th Alternative 9789027705808 DEWEY 10 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96265425; , Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], ISBN-13: 9789027705686, Book Title: Between Experience and Metaphysics<