| Description |
1 online resource (x, 852 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Festschrift dedicated to Michael Friedman. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Discourse on a new method, or a manifesto for a synthetic approach to history and philosophy of science / Mary Domski and Michael Dickson -- The Newtonian era -- The axiomatic tradition in seventeenth-century mechanics / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- The reduction to the pristine state in Robert Boyle's corpuscular philosophy / William R. Newman -- Newton as historically-minded philosopher / Mary Domski -- Newton's forces in Kant's Critique / Andrew Janiak -- Kant -- Kant and Lambert on geometrical postulates in the reform of metaphysics / Alison Laywine -- Two studies in the reception of Kant's philosophy of arithmetic / Charles Parsons -- Philosophy, geometry, and logic in Leibniz, Wolff, and the early Kant / Daniel Sutherland -- Kant on attractive and repulsive force : the balancing argument / Daniel Warren -- Mathematical method in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel / Frederick C. Beiser -- Logical positivism and neo-Kantianism -- Validity in the cultural sciences? / John Michael Krois -- Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman : Kantian or Hegelian dynamics of reason? / Alan Richardson -- From Mach to Carnap: a tale of confusion / Paul Pojman -- Quine's objection and Carnap's Aufbau / Thomas Ricketts -- "Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural" : Einstein, general relativity, and the contingent a priori / Don Howard -- History and philosophy of physics -- How Hume and Mach helped Einstein find special relativity / John Norton -- The paracletes of quantum gravity / James Mattingly -- Beauty doth of itself persuade: Dirac on quantization, mathematical beauty, and theoretical understanding / Michael Dickson -- The "relativized a priori" : an appreciation and a critique / Thomas Ryckman -- Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science -- The role of the foundations of mathematics in the development of Carnap's theory of theories / William Demopoulos -- The construction of reason : Kant, Carnap, Kuhn, and beyond / Richard Creath -- How should we describe scientific change? or : a neo-Popperian reads Friedman / Noretta Koertge -- Synthesis, the synthetic a priori, and the origins of modern space-time theory / Robert DiSalle -- Back to "back to Kant" / Mark Wilson -- Concluding essay -- Synthetic history reconsidered / Michael Friedman. |
| Summary |
Addressing a wide range of topics, from Newton to Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science, these essays critically examine themes that have been central to the influential work of philosopher Michael Friedman. Special focus is given to Friedman's revealing study of both history of science and philosophy in his work on Kant, Newton, Einstein, and other major figures. This interaction of history and philosophy is the subject of the editors' "manifesto" and serves to both explain and promote the essential ties between two disciplines usually regarded as unrelated. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Domski, Mary, 1975-
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Dickson, Michael, 1968-
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Friedman, Michael, 1947-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Discourse on a new method. Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, ©2010 9780812696622 (DLC) 2009003556 (OCoLC)290435528 |
| ISBN |
9780812697223 (electronic book) |
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0812697227 (electronic book) |
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9780812696622 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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081269662X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612877391 |
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