What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Norwood Russell Hanson, Matthew D. Lund

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Ever the outspoken firebrand, Hanson found many lessons and warnings from Galileo's trial that were relevant to Cold War America.This volume not only contains Hanson's best-known work in history and philosophy of science, but also highlights the breadth of his philosophical thought.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-26
Mått155 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt604 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSynthese Library
Antal sidor377
Upplaga2
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789402417418

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Introduction, Matthew D. Lund.- Part I Philosophy of Science.- A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning.- On Elementary Particle Theory.- Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies.- Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy.- Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of Science.- Part II History of Science.- Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics.- The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics.- The Trial of Galileo.- Part III General Philosophy.- On Being in Two Places at Once.- Copernicus’ Role in Kant’s Revolution.- It’s Actual, so It’s Possible.- On Having the Same Visual Experiences.- Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments.- Part IV Logic.- Imagining the Impossible.- On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics.- Good Inductive Reasons.- A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity.- The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science.- The Idea of a Logic of Discovery.- Part V Religion.- The Agnostic’s Dilemma.- What I Don’t Believe.- Part VI The Theory of Flight.- Introduction, Edward MacKinnon, S.J..- Lecture One: The Discovery of Air.- Lecture Two: The Shape of an Idea.- Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape.