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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780812696622 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 081269662X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2009003556
    OCLC
    290435528
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