Title | Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science [electronic resource] : Scientific and Philosophical Essays in Honour of Azarya Polikarov / edited by Dimitri Ginev, Robert S. Cohen |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5788-9 |
Descript | XVII, 403 p. online resource |
Who Needs Aristotle? -- Naive Realism and Naive Antirealism -- Against Postmodernism and the โNewโ Philosophy of Science: Nietzscheโs Image of Science in the Light of Art -- On the Validity of von Neumannโs Theorem -- Explaining Scientific Revolutions -- Micro- and Macro-Hermeneutics of Science -- The Redundancy of Spacetime: Special Relativity as a Grammar and the Strangeness of โcโ -- Context, Hermeneutics, and Ontology in the Experimental Sciences -- Cognitive Dynamics and the Development of Science -- Methodical Constructivism -- Hermeneutic vs. Empiricist Philosophy of Science -- Must the Explanans be True? -- Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI and Scientific Methodology -- Since Indeterminacy: The New Picture of the Physical World at the End of Modernity -- The Dynamics of Science -- The Law of Logarithmic Returns and Its Implications -- The Human Right to Know and the Reality of Knowledge -- Kuhnโs Ontological Relativism -- The Problem of Reduction in the Theory of Special Relativity -- Symmetries and Explanations: The Lessons of Elementary Particle Physics -- Cognition as a System -- System Approach to the Problem of the Classification of Sciences and Scientific Researches -- Appendix / Azarya Polikarov: Selected Books and Articles -- Name Index