Poincaré, Philosopher of Science Problems and Perspectives /
This volume presents a selection of papers from the Poincaré Project of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, bringing together an international group of scholars with new assessments of Henri Poincaré's philosophy of science—both its historical impact on the foundatio...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Σειρά: | The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface
- Introduction; Robert DiSalle and María de Paz
- Part I Poincaré’s Philosophy of Science
- 1 Portrait of Henri Poincaré as a young philosopher: the formative years (1860-1873); Laurent Rollet
- 2 The Invention of Convention; Janet Folina
- 3 The third way epistemology: A re-characterization of Poincaré’s conventionalism; María de Paz
- 4 Poincaré, Indifferent Hypotheses and Metaphysics; Antonio Videira
- Part II Poincaré on the Foundations of Mathematics
- 5 Poincaré in Göttingen; Reinhard Kahle
- 6 Poincaré on the Principles of the Calculus; Augusto J. Franco de Oliveira
- 7 Does the French Connection (Poincaré, Lautman) provide some insights regarding the thesis that meta-mathematics is an exception to the slogan that mathematics concerns structures?; Gerhard Heinzmann.- Part III Poincaré on the Foundations of Physics
- 8 Henri Poincaré: The status of mechanical explanations and the foundations of statistical mechanics; João Príncipe
- 9 Poincaré: A scientist inspired by his philosophy; Isabella Serra
- 10 Poincaré on the construction of space-time; Robert DiSalle
- Contributors
- Index.
