History, Historicity and Science (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Margolis, Joseph; Rockmore, Tom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge. The essays in this book consider the philosophical labours spanning the work of Descartes, Kant and Hegel, still the philosophical basis of our modern understanding of science, as well as recent selected philosophers and historians of science such as Kuhn and Feyerbend. Themes raised include the philosophical basis for the validity of science, the possibility of ever knowing the independent world as it truly is, and the intelligibility of construing scientific knowledge as a historical. Taken separately and together, these essays provide a sustained analysis of scientific claims to objective standing, the historicity of thought and inquiry. They point toward unfinished philosophical business and the need for a new beginning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351930581
• Artikelnr.: 49366186

Autorenporträt

Joseph Margolis is Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Tom Rockmore is Professor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis; The concepts of physics: rational contents and constructions in history
Michel Paty; Theory-change and the logic of enquiry: new bearings in philosophy of science
Christopher Norris; Science
history
and philosophy in Kant and Hegel
Angelica Nuzzo; Historicity
social psychology and change
Rom Harré and Fathali M. Moghaddam; The reality of history
David Carr; The social location of scientific practices
Hugh Lacey; Kuhn
different worlds and science as historical
Tom Rockmore; Incommensurability modestly recovered
Joseph Margolis; Index.