The Material Realization of Science From Habermas to Experimentation and Referential Realism /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Radder, Hans (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 294
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Science.; Physics.; Philosophy, general.; Science, general.; Physics, general.

The book addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and it proposes a detailed account of a referential realism. This account exploits several fruitful ideas of Jürgen Habermas, it builds on an analysis of scientific experimentation, and it is developed through an in-depth case study of the h...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface to the Revised English Edition
• Preface to the First English Edition
• Preface to the Dutch Edition
• Introduction
• PART I   HABERMAS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
• 1 Habermas’s Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
• 2 Analysis and Critique
• PART II   EXPERIMENTATION AND REFERENTIAL REALISM
• 3 Experimentation in the Natural Sciences
• 4 Verifiability and Reference, Relativism and Realism
• 5 Specification and Application: Two Case Studies from the History and Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Conclusion
• References
• POSTSCRIPT 2012
• References to the Postscript
• Index.