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Discourse on a new method : reinvigorating the marriage of history and philosophy of science / edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson with a concluding essay Michael Friedman.
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English
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Chicago : Open Court, ©2010.
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x, 852 pages ; 24 cm
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Q175 .D6634 2010
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Friedman, Michael, 1947-
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Discourse on a new method, or a manifesto for a synthetic approach to history and philosophy of science / Mary Domski and Michael Dickson
Pt. 1. The Newtonian era
The axiomatic tradition in 17th century mechanics / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
The reduction to the pristine state in Robert Boyle's corpuscular philosophy / William R. Newman
Newton as historically-minded philosopher / Mary Domski
Newton's forces in Kant's critique / Andrew Janiak
Pt. 2. Kant
Kant and Lambert on geometrical postulates in the reform of metaphysics / Alison Laywine
Two studies in the reception of Kant's philosophy of arithmetic / Charles Parsons
Philosophy, geometry, and logic in Leibniz, Wolff, and the early Kant / Daniel Sutherland
Kant on attractive and repulsive force : the balancing argument / Daniel Warren
Mathematical method in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel / Frederick C. Beiser
Pt. 3. Logical positivism and neo-Kantianism
Validity in the cultural sciences? / John ichael Krois
Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman : Kantian or Hegelian dynamics of reason? / Alan Richardson
From Mach to Carnap: a tale of confusion / Paul Pojman
Quine's objection and Carnap's Aufbau / Thomas Ricketts
"Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural" : Einstein, general relativity, and the contingent a priori / Don Howard
Pt. 4. History and philosophy of physics
How Hume and Mach helped Einstein find special relativity / John Norton
The paracletes of quantum gravity / James Mattingly
Dirac and mathematical beauty / Michael Dickson
Theory, coordination, and empirical meaning in modern physics / Scott Tanona
The "relativized a priori" : an appreciation and a critique / Thomas Ryckman
Pt. 5. Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science
The role of the foundations of mathematics in the development of Carnap's theory of theories / William Demopoulos
Synthesis, the synthetic a priori, and the origins of modern space-time theory / Robert DiSalle
How should we describe scientific change? or : a neo-Popperian reads Friedman / Noretta Koertge
The construction of reason : Kant, Carnap, Kuhn, and beyond / Richard Creath
Back to "back to Kant" / Mark Wilson
Pt. 6. Michael Friedman responds
Synthetic history reconsidered / Michael Friedman.
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9780812696622 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
081269662X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2009003556
OCLC
290435528
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