Explanation in the Sciences
Emile Meyerson's writings on the philosophy of science are a rich source of ideas and information concerning many philosophical and historical aspects of the development of modem science. Meyerson's works are not widely read or cited today by philosophers or even philosophers of science, i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1991, 1991
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1991 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Book One The Two Fundamental Observations
- 1. Science Demands the Concept of Thing
- 2. Science Seeks Explanation
- Book Two The Explanatory Process
- 3. Deduction
- 4. Rationality Postulated
- 5. Identity and Identification
- 6. The Irrational
- 7. Biological Phenomena
- 8. Forms of Spatial Explanation
- 9. The Possibilities of Scientific Explanation
- 10. The State of Potentiality
- Book Three Global Explanation
- 11. Hegel’s Attempt
- 12. Schelling’s Objections
- 13. Hegel and Comte
- 14. Hegel, Descartes and Kant
- Book Four Scientific and Philosophic Reason
- 15. Science and Philosophic Systems
- 16. The Rationality of the Real Reconsidered
- 17. The Epistemological Paradox
- 18. The Oneness of Human Reason
- Appendices
- 1 The Precursors of Hume
- 2 The Resistance to Lavoisier’s Theory
- 3 The Formula of the Universe in Laplace and in Taine
- 4 Arrhenius’s Theory and Other Such Efforts
- 5 Hegel’s Political Attitude
- 6 The Prestige and the Decline of Hegelian Philosophy
- 7 Abstract and Concrete Reason in Hegel
- 8 Hegel’s Panlogism
- 10 The Philosophy of Nature and Scientific Progress
- 11 Hegel, Schelling and Chemical Theory
- 12 Hegel and National Science
- 13 Hegel’s Artistic Sense and Sense of Rhythm
- 14 The Hegelian Dialectic and Experience
- 15 Schelling, Hegel and Victor Cousin
- 16 The Identity of Thought and Reality in Schelling
- 17 Schelling’s Announced Works
- 18 Caroline Schelling
- 19 Personal Relations Between Schelling and 20 Hegel
- 20 Tycho Brahe, Astrology and the Motion of the Earth
- 21 Non-Euclidean Space and Physical Verification
- Index of Names