Polish Essays in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences - eerste uitgave

EAN (ISBN-13): 9789027712875
ISBN (ISBN-10): 9027712875
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Verschijningsjaar: 1982
Uitgever: Springer Netherlands Core >1

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ISBN/EAN: 9789027712875

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Auteur van het boek: krajewski, wladyslaw
Titel van het boek: polish essays the philosophy the natural sciences, reidel, krajewski, first philosophy, studies history natural science

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Auteur: W. Krajewski
Titel: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; Polish Essays in the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
Uitgeverij: Springer; Springer Netherland
491 Bladzijden
Verschijningsjaar: 1982-04-30
Dordrecht; NL
Taal: Engels
213,99 € (DE)
219,99 € (AT)
236,00 CHF (CH)
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XXVIII, 491 p.

BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Philosophie/Allgemeines, Lexika; Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie; Verstehen; Polis; The Philosophy of Mathematics; philosophy of biology; quantum mechanics; reduction; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Soziale und politische Philosophie; BB

I. General Methodological Problems.- Reflections on Science and Rationality.- The Epistemological and Methodological Sense of the Concept of Rationality.- On Two Kinds of Conventionalism with Respect to Empirical Sciences.- Realism and Instrumentalism: On A Priori Conditions of Science.- Once More about Empirical Support.- The Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification: A Reappraisal.- Continuity and Anticumulative Changes in the Growth of Science.- Some Remarks in Defense of the Incommensurability Thesis.- Marxism and the Controversy over the Development of Science.- Are there Definitively Falsifying Procedures in Science?.- The Pluralistic Approach to Empirical Testing and the Special Forms of Experiment.- Dialectical Correspondence and Essential Truth.- Testing Idealizational Laws.- Practical Idealization.- II. Formal Analysis.- An Interpretation of a Concept in Science by a Set of Operational Procedures.- A Formal Definition of the Concept of Simplicity.- Characteristics of Additive Quantities.- III. Ontological Problems.- On the Concept of Matter.- Time Separation.- Four Conceptions of Causation.- IV. Philosophy of Mathematics and Information Theory.- On the Philosophy of Mathematics.- Information, Regulation, Negentropy.- Information and Signal.- V. Philosophy of Physics.- Principles of Physics as Meta-laws.- Structural Laws in Physics.- Controversial Problems of the Probabilistic Interpretation of Quantum Phenomena.- Quantum Mechanics and the Structure of Physical Theories.- Difficulties with the Reduction of Classical to Relativistic Mechanics.- VI. Philosophy of Biology and Linguistics.- Genetic and Historical Explanation in Biology.- The Idealizational Status of Theoretical Biology.- Chomsky’s Inconsistencies in his Critique of EvolutionaryConceptions of Language.- VII. Other Papers.- The Problem of the Chemical Organization of Matter in the Light of a Closed Development Model.- An Outline of a Simulation Model of Science as a Part of the Model of Action.- The Notion of Technological Research and its Place among other Informational Activities.- Difficulties with Absolutism: The Case of Von Weizsäcker’s Philosophy.- Bibliographies.- Abbreviations used in the Bibliographies.- Bibliography of Polish Philosophy of Natural Science.- Bibliography of Non-Polish Authors Cited.- List of Contributors.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.