Multiformity of Science

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-0938-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 79, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 815 g

Reihe: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities

Autoren/Hrsg.

Such, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I: Contributions to the Idealizational Theory of Science
Idealization and Concretization in the Natural Sciences
Plato’s Philosophy and the Essence of the Scientific Method
The Idealizational Theory of Science and Physics of the Microworld
The Idealizational Conception of Science and the Structure of the Law of Universal Gravitation
Part II: The Nature of Scientific Cognition
On Kinds of Knowledge
Scientific and Everyday Knowledge
Universality of Scientific Laws
The Role of Theory in Physical Sciences
The Leibniz-Einstein Principle of the Minimization of Premises
On Kinds of Interpretation Procedures in Science
The Problem of the Rationality of Science
Principles and Kinds of Scientific Rationality
The Rationality of Science and Limitations of Scientific Methods
What has Changed in the Philosophical View of Science?
Part III: The Development of Science
Types of Determination vs. The Development of Science in Historical Epistemology
Relation of Correspondence and Logical Consequence
Experiment and Science
Hegel’s Historicism and Contemporary Conceptions of the Development of Science
Part IV: Problems of Verification of Knowledge
Are there Definitively Falsifying Procedures in Science?
On the so-called Complementary Experiments. The Example of Fizeau’s and Michelson’s Experiments
Testability of Knowledge at Various Levels of its Development
Atomistic Empiricism or Holistic Empiricism?
The Notion of an ad hoc Hypothesis
Part V: Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology
On the Peculiarity of Physics and its Divisions
Models of Rationality in Physics
Transcendental Philosophy and Physics of the Microworld
The Universality of Scientific Laws and the Evolution of the Universe
Aspects of the Problem of the Spatiotemporal Infinity of the World
The Peculiar Status of Cosmology as a Science
The Origin of the Universe and Contemporary Cosmology and Philosophy
Newton’s Fields of Study and Methodological Principles
Hegel and Contemporary Natural Sciences
Part VI: Some Problems of the Theory of Reality
Unity or Variety of Nature?
The Place of Processes in the Structure of Reality
Science and Technology and the Current Trends in the Development of Culture
Hegel’s Category of Totality and His Concept of State
The Being of Beings in Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit
References