Constructivism and Science Essays in Recent German Philosophy
The idea to produce the current volume was conceived by Jiirgen Mittelstrass and Robert E. Butts in 1978. Idealist philosophers are wrong about one thing: the temporal gap separating idea and reality can be very long indeed - even ten or so years! Problems of timing were joined by personal problems...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Section I: Constructivism and the logic of science
- Science, a Rational Enterprise?
- The Philosophy of Science and Its Logic
- The Pragmatic Understanding of Language and the Argumentative Function of Logic
- Rules versus Theorems
- On ‘Transcendental’
- Section II: Constructivism and Protoscience
- Philosophy and the Problem of the Foundations of Mathematics
- Geometry as the Measure-Theoretic A Priori of Physics
- The Concept of Mass
- On the Definition of ‘Probability’
- Section III: Constructivism and The Value Sciences
- Practical Reason and the Justification of Norms. Fundamental Problems in the Construction of a Theory of Practical Justification
- Protoethics: Towards a Formal Pragmatics of Justificatory Discourse
- Interests
- Is Rational Economics as an Empirical- Quantitative Science Possible?
- Determination by Reality or Construction of Reality?
- Notes On The Contributors