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1 online resource (xiv, 384 pages) : illustrations. |
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SUNY series in American philosophy and cultural thought
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SUNY series in American philosophy and cultural thought.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chronology of Philipp Frank's Life -- Philipp Frank: A Crusader for Scientific Philosophy -- 1. Vienna-Prague-Boston: The Life of Philipp Frank -- 1.1. Vienna: A City That Breathed Physics and Philosophy of Science -- 1.2. Prague: The City of Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein -- 1.3. Harvard, Massachusetts, and Boston: The Promise of a Better Future -- 1.3.1. A Refugee between Nazism and Thomism -- 1.3.2. A Home at Harvard -- 1.3.3. The Conferences on Science, Philosophy, and Religion and Frank's Contribution -- 1.3.4. The Institute and General Education -- 1.4. The Final Years -- 2. Dating the Manuscript -- 3. The Multilayered Significance of The Humanistic Background -- 3.1. The Main Theses and Approach of The Humanistic Background -- 3.2. The Humanistic Background in the American Scene -- 3.3. The Humanistic Background, Thomas Kuhn and the Socio-Historical Approach to Scientific Knowledge -- 3.4. Evaluating The Humanistic Background Today -- 4. Editorial Preparation and Remarks -- 5. Acknowledgments -- List of Archives and their Abbreviations -- References -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Science, Facts, and Values -- 1. Science and Poetry -- 2. Charges against the Monopoly of Science -- 3. Twentieth-Century Science and Philosophy -- 4. The "Real World" Is Not Describable -- 5. The Humanities Are Trailing behind the Natural Sciences -- 6. The "Special Sciences" Don't Exhaust "Science" -- 7. Semantic and Pragmatic Components of Science -- 8. Philosophical Schools Woo the Support of Science -- 9. Principles of Science and Human "Values" -- Chapter 2. The Longing for a Humanization of Science -- 1. Dissatisfaction with Nineteenth-Century Science -- 2. Emerson on the Changing Role of Science -- 3. Lord Herbert Samuel for Modern Science -- 4. Dehumanization of Science. |
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5. Soviet Philosophy and Modern Science -- 6. The Birth of Modern Science Was the Birth of Dissatisfaction -- 7. Bacon on the Copernican System -- 8. How Science Has Been "Humanized" -- 9. Analogies as Humanizing Elements -- 10. "Humanization," "Metaphysics," and the "Inner Eye" -- 11. Metaphysics, Common Sense, and the Inner Eye -- 12. The Nature of Metaphysical Statements -- 13. The Inner Eye and Intuition -- Chapter 3. Metaphysical Interpretations of Science -- 1. The Founder of Pragmatism on Science and Philosophy -- 2. Peirce's Conception of Philosophy -- 3. Metaphysics Nearer to Common Sense than Science -- 4. The Purpose of Metaphysical Interpretation -- 5. Metaphysics as Science -- 6. The Laws of Physics and Their Metaphysical Interpretation -- 7. How Scientists Have Interpreted Their Own Theories -- Chapter 4. The Sociology of Metaphysical Interpretations -- 1. Can Science Be "Purged" of Philosophy? -- 2. Science and Chance Philosophies -- 3. The Attitudes of Scientists and Authorities -- 4. The Battle of Worldviews -- 5. Purging Physics and Metaphysics -- 6. Science and Reality -- 7. Max Planck and the Real World -- 8. Meanings and Examples of "Real" -- 9. Sociological Role of "Reality" -- 10. "Reality" in Soviet Philosophy -- Chapter 5. Philosophy of Science and Political Ideology -- 1. Sociology of Knowledge -- 2. The General Sense of Ideology -- 3. Mannheim, Ideology, and Sociology of Knowledge -- 4. Forms of Social Influence -- 5. Facts and Interpretation -- 6. Sociology of Science -- 7. Social Class and Social Situation -- 8. The Solution to the Puzzle -- Chapter 6. Sociology of Science and the Search for a Democratic Metaphysics -- 1. Validation and Theory Building -- 2. Science as a Compromise between Technology and Political Philosophy -- 3. The Scientific Conscience -- 4. Philosophical Interpretations and Democracy. |
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5. The Physical and the Socio-cosmic Universe -- Part II -- Chapter 7. Scholastic Philosophy and Thomism -- 1. The Meanings of Rational and Intelligible -- 2. The Role of Philosophical Schools -- 3. Science and "Thomism" -- 4. The Thomistic Theory of Matter -- 5. The Social Significance of Thomistic Philosophy -- 6. On Angels and Genuine Laws -- 7. Thomism and Physical Laws -- 8. Analogical and Scientific Thinking -- Chapter 8. The Physical Universe as a Symbol -- 1. The Moral Universe -- 2. Physical Science in the Bible -- 3. The Physical Universe and Human Behavior -- 4. Scholastic "Scientism" and Modern "Positivism" -- 5. Shifting the Problem to Revelation -- 6. Realism and Nominalism -- 7. The Situation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 9. Union, Divorce, and Reunion between Science and Philosophy -- 1. Science and Philosophy in the British and Soviet Encyclopedias -- 2. "Truce" through a Naturalization of Science -- 3. Attempts at a Reunion by a Positive Philosophy -- 4. The Role of "Sociology" in Positive Philosophy -- 5. The "Truth" of General Principles in Positive Philosophy -- 6. The Relative Truth of Theories -- 7. Positive Philosophy and Marginal Metaphysics -- 8. Science and Philosophy after the Reunion -- 9. The Name "Philosophy" as a Challenge -- Chapter 10. Science, Democracy, and the New Wave of Positivism -- 1. Science after the French Revolution -- 2. Positivism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (Stallo) -- 3. Positivism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (Mach) -- 4. The Reception of Mach and Stallo? -- 5. Conventionalism (Poincaré, Le Roy) -- 6. Abel Rey and the Bankruptcy of Science -- 7. Duhem's Accommodation of Positivism and Metaphysics -- Chapter 11. The Vienna Circle: Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, and Otto Neurath -- 1. The Turning Point in Positivism. |
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2. Logical Positivism and the Theory of Correspondence -- 3. Philosophy as Activity and the Unified Picture -- 4. Cross-connections among the Sciences -- 5. Changes in the Science of Meaning -- 6. The Vienna Circle and the Pragmatics of Metaphysics -- 7. Cognitive Significance and Scientific Value -- Chapter 12. Pragmatism -- 1. Pragmatism (William James, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey) -- 2. Peirce's Pragmatism and Positivism -- 3. James's Pragmatism and Metaphysics -- 4. Dewey and Political Interpretations of Science -- 5. A New Development: Scientific Empiricism -- 6. The Meaning and Significance of Bridgman's Operationalism -- 7. Nagel's Contextualistic Naturalism -- Chapter 13. Mechanistic and Dialectical Materialism -- 1. Mechanistic Materialism -- 2. La Mettrie's Materialism -- 3. Purposiveness in Nature -- 4. Materialism Refuted? -- 5. Materialism versus Positivism -- 6. Soviet Attacks against Positivism -- 7. The Conversion of Mass and "Star-Spangled" Operationalism -- Chapter 14. The Laws and Politics of Dialectical Materialism -- 1. Dialectical versus Mechanistic Materialism -- 2. Diamat and Philosophy -- 3. Diamat and Realism -- 4. The Dialectical Laws -- 5. Quantitative and Qualitative Changes -- 6. Social Change and Natural Science -- Conclusion: Einstein's Philosophy of Science -- 1. The Positivistic Basis -- 2. The Metaphysical Basis -- 3. The Analogical-Religious Basis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966.
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Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Science and the humanities.
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Science and the humanities. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Reisch, George A., 1962- editor.
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Tuboly, Adam Tamas, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966. Humanistic background of science Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] 9781438485515 (DLC) 2021030164 |
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9781438485539 electronic book |
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1438485530 electronic book |
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9781438485515 hardcover |
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