Historical Pragmatics Philosophical Essays
For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E. Butts have been a notable and welcome part of European and North American philosophy. A few years ago, James Robert Brown and Jiirgen Mittelstrass feted Professor Butts with a volume entitled An Intimate Relation (Boston Studies vol. 116,...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1993, 1993
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1993 |
| 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:
- 1. Some tactics in Galileo’s propaganda for the mathematization of scientific experience
- 2. Leibniz on choosing between rival scientific hypotheses
- 3. Philosophers as professional relativists
- 4. Kant’s schemata as semantical rules
- 5. The methodological structure of Kant’s metaphysics of science
- 6. Teleology and scientific method in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
- 7. The grammar of reason: Hamann’s challenge to Kant
- 8. Metaphysics, methodology and the pragmatic unity of the sciences
- 9. Necessary truth in Whewell’s theory of science
- 10. Whewell’s logic of induction
- 11. Consilience of inductions and the problem of conceptual change in science
- 12. Whewell on Newton’s rules of philosophizing
- 13. ‘A purely scientific temper’: Victorian expressions of the ideal of an autonomous science
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index of Names and Subjects