Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 417 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 417 g
Reihe: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
ISBN: 978-94-007-3446-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
This volume critically reexamines Otto Neurath’s conception of the unity of science. Some of the leading scholars of Neurath’s work, along with many prominent philosophers of science critically examine his place in the history of philosophy of science and evaluate the relevance of his work for contemporary debates concerning the unity of science.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface; .- Introduction; .- Part 1 - Neurath.- Unity of Science and Logical Empiricism; .- The Neurath-Horkeimer-Controversy Reconsidered. Otto Neurath's to Max Horkeimer's Attack against the Vienna Circle; .- Otto Neurath's Epistemology and Its Paradoxes; .- Neurath and the Encyclopaedic Project of the Unity of Science; .- Principles and Practices of Neurath's Language; .- Conceptions of Reality - Schlick, Carnap, Neurath; .- Keeping Track of Neurath's Bill: Abstract Concepts, Stock Models and the Unity of Classical Physics; .- G. Itelson - A Socratic Philosopher; .- Part 2 – Unity.- Unity without Myths; .- Two Unification Strategies: Analysis or Reduction, and Synthesis or Integration; .- A Comprehensible World; .- Unified Science? Does Scientific Progress Necessarily Lead to a Unified Science?; .- The Achilles' Heel of the Program for the Unity of Science; .- Scientific Reasonableness and the Pragmatic Approach to the Unity of Science; .- Naturalism and the Unity of Science; .- Searching the Unity of Science: From Classical Logic to Abductive Logical Systems; .- Direct Abduction through Dual Resolution; .- Index.
