Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science

Homage to Alexandre Koyré 1892-1964
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-61710-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Features insightful studies on Alexandre Koyré

Reevaluates current thinking in history, philosophy, and foundations of science

Explores Koyré’s intellectual matrix and heritage within the interdisciplinary fields of historical, epistemological, and philosophical scientific thought

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pisano, Raffaele

Drozdova, Daria

Agassi, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Alexandre Koyré: His Secret Charm.- Chapter 2. Homage to Koyré: Space as Paradigmatic Example of “The Unity of Human Thought”.- Chapter 3. The Philosophers and the Machine”: Philosophy of Mathematics and History of Science in Alexandre Koyré.- Chapter 4. Koyré and Galileo: the Myth of the Leaning Tower’s Scientific Experiment.- Chapter 5. On Galileo’s Platonism, Again.- Chapter 6. Alexandre Koyré and Blaise Pascal.- Chapter 7. Koyré Revolutionary Role in the Historiography of Science.- Chapter 8. Alexandre Koyré’s Essential Features of the Scientific Revolution.- Chapter 9. Koyré, Cassirer and History of Science.- Chapter 10. Alexandre Koyré and the History of Science as a Species of the History of Philosophy: The Cases of Galileo and Descartes .- Chapter 11. ls Descartes’ Theological Voluntarism Compatible with His Philosophy?.- Chapter 12. The Posterity of Koyré’s Galileo Studies.- Chapter 13. Alexandre Koyré, Kepler’s Reader without Prejudices. Harmony of the World, Music of the Heavens.- Chapter 14. The History between Koyré and Husserl.- Chapter 15. Kuhn, Sarton and the History of Science.- Chapter 16. On the Conceptualization of Force in Johannes Kepler’s Corpus: an Interplay between Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics.-  Chapter 17. Koyré versus Olschki-Zilsel.- Chapter 18. Alexandre Koyré, History and Actuality.- Chapter 19. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Following Koyré: the Young Tom Kuhn, ‘Critical Historian’, on Tradition Dynamics and Big History.- Chapter 20. Alexandre Koyré and the Traditional Interpretation of the Anthropological Consequences of the Copernican Revolution.- Chatper 21. Koyré as a Historian of Religion and the New French Phenomenology.

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Dr. Raffaele Pisano is a Professor, CIREL, Lille 3 University, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. His fields of research and teaching include: history of physics, theoretical physics, historical epistemology of science, history of mathematical physics, comparative, NoS, history and didactics of science.

Prof. Dr. Joseph Agassi is an Emeritus Professor of Tel-Aviv University, Israel and York University, Toronto, Canada. His fields of research and teaching include: philosophy of science, theoretical physics, sociology, mathematical physics, foundations of science, psychology, and anthropology.

Dr. Daria Drozdova is a Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Her fields of research and teaching include: philosophy of science and history of early modern science.