The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences /

The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences / / Gregor Schiemann, Michael Heidelberger.

Naturwissenschaftler und Philosophen haben im Lauf der Wissenschaftsgeschichte unterschiedliche Auffassungen vom Hypothesencharakter empirischer Theorien entwickelt. Der Band widmet sich drei verschiedenen Epochen, in denen der Erkenntnisoptimismus erfolgreicher Wissenschaftspraxis auf ein wachsende...

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Heidelberger, Michael,
Schiemann, Gregor,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Heidelberger, Michael / Schiemann, Gregor
  • Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / McMullin, Ernan
  • Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Specht, Rainer
  • Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Snyder, Laura J.
  • From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory" / Pulte, Helmut
  • Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux / Heidelberger, Michael
  • Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Hüttemann, Andreas
  • Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré / Heinzmann, Gerhard
  • Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Walter, Scott
  • Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? / Bouriau, Christophe
  • Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Schiemann, Gregor
  • "Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Freudenthal, Gad
  • Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Bartels, Andreas
  • The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Nordmann, Alfred
  • Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Esfeld, Michael
  • Backmatter

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