Buch, Englisch, Band 332, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 694 g
Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Buch, Englisch, Band 332, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 694 g
Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
ISBN: 978-3-319-67376-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Contingency is intrinsic to scientific practice. Whether observing the behaviour of a photon, diagnosing a patient, or calculating the orbit of a distant planet, scientists face the unavoidable challenge of dealing with data that differ from their models and expectations. However, epistemological categories are not fixed in time. Indeed, there is something fundamentally different in the way an Aristotelian natural philosopher defined a wonder or a “monstrous” birth as “contingent”, a modern scientist defines the unexpected result of an experiment, and a quantum physicist the behavior of a photon. Although to each inquirer these instances appeared self-evidently contingent, each also employs the concept differently.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Principle of Contingency from Medieval Physics to Early Modern Epistemology; Pietro D. Omodeo and Rodolfo Garau.- PART I: METAPHYSICAL AND NATURAL CONTINGENCY.- Chapter 2: Scholastic Views on Causality and the Quantification of Natural Phenomena; Magali Roques.- Chapter 3: Secundum Quid and Contingentia: Scholastic Reminiscences in Early Modern Mechanics; Pietro D. Omodeo and Jürgen Renn.- Chapter 4: Practical Knowledge and Contingency in the Renaissance.- Chapter 5: Contingency and Necessity in Renaissance Astrology.- Chapter 6: Two Early Modern Problems of Contingency: Irregularity and the Laws of Motion, and the Status of Secondary Qualities; Rodolfo Garau.- Chapter 7: Dealing with Contingency in Early Modern Mathematics.- Chapter 8: Sufficient Reason and the Vagaries of Keplerian Matter; Jonathan Regier.- Chapter 9: Is Physiology the Domain of Necessity or Contingency in Descartes’s Physics? Balint Kekedi.- Chapter 10: Contingency in Early Modern Life Sciences.- PART II: THE EXPERIENCE AND THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF CONTINGENCY.- Chapter 11: Facing Complexity: Experience and Statistics; Stephen Gaukroger.- Chapter 12: Ars Experimentandi. Laws of Nature, Matterly Objects and Contingent Circumstances; Enrico Pasini.- Chapter 13: Experimental Contingency and Mechanical Laws in Robert Hooke’s Matter Theory; Francesco G. Sacco.- Chapter 14: Optics and Contingency.- Chapter 15: Contingency and Astronomical Observation; Ofer Gal.- Chapter 15: Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Language Projects to Face the Problem of Contingency; Judith Kaplan.- Chapter 16: Newtonian Physics and Contingency.