Theory Change, Ancient Axiomatics, and Galileo’s Methodology Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume I
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Table of Contents:
- Section I: The Structure of Theory Change
- The Growth of Theories: Comments on the Structuralist Approach
- Logic and the Theory of Scientific Change
- What Have They Done to Kuhn? An Ideological Introduction in Chiaroscuro
- Comment on Zev Bechler’s Paper ‘What Have They Done to Kuhn?’
- Comments on Bechler, Niiniluoto and Sadovsky
- The Sociological and the Methodological in the Study of Changes in Science
- Section II: The Early History of the Axiomatic Method
- Concerning the Ancient Greek Ideal of Theoretical Thought
- Was There an Eleatic Background to Pre-Euclidean Mathematics?
- Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomatics
- On the Early History of Axiomatics: The Interaction of Mathematics and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity
- Some Remarks on the Controversy between Prof. Knorr and Prof. Szabó
- On the Early History of Axiomatics: A Reply to Some Criticisms
- Limitations of the Axiomatic Method in Ancient Greek Mathematical Sciences
- On Axiomatic and Genetic Construction of Mathematical Theories
- On the Role of Axiomatic Method in the Development of Ancient Mathematics
- Section III: The Philosophical Presuppositions and Shifting Interpretations of Galileo
- Galilée et la Mécanisation du Système du Monde
- Galileo and the Post-Renaissance
- Galileo and the Methods of Science
- Philosophical Presuppositions and Shifting Interpretations of Galileo
- Creative Work as an Object of Theoretical Understanding
- Galileo and the Emergence of a New Scientific Style
- Philosophy of Science and the Art of Historical Interpretation
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects