Butts, Robert E. (Author)
Description Most of these essays have been previously published, but have been re-edited for this volume. Contents: Some tactics in Galileo's propaganda for the mathematization of scientific experience. Leibniz on choosing between rival scientific hypotheses. Philosophers as professional relativists. Kant's schemata as semantical rules. The methodological structure of Kant's metaphysics of science. Teleology and scientific method in Kant's Critique of Judgment. The grammar of reason: Hamann's challenge to Kant. Metaphysics, methodology and the pragmatic unity of the sciences. Necessary truth in Whewell's theory of science. Whewell's logic of induction. Consilience of inductions and the problem of conceptual change in science. Whewell on Newton's rules of philosophizing. “A purely scientific temper”: Victorian expressions of the ideal of an autonomous science.
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Caruso, Francisco;
Moreira Xavier, R.;
(1998)
Sull'influenza di Cartesio, Leibniz e Newton nel primo approccio di Kant al problema dello spazio e della sua dimensionalità
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Book
Kim, Kuck-tae;
(1989)
Der dynamische Begriff der Materie bei Leibniz und Kant, dargestellt im Zusammenhang der Entstehung der klassischen Naturwissenschaft und deren metaphysischer Grundlegung
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Book
Fjelland, Ragnar;
(1975)
Aristoteles, Galilei, og Kant: Et vitenskapsteoretisk perspektiv
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Article
Snyder, Laura J.;
(1997)
The Mill-Whewell debate: Much ado about induction
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Thesis
Snyder, Laura J.;
(1996)
The method and induction: William Whewell and current philosophy of science
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Essay Review
Achinstein, Peter;
(1992)
Inference to the best explanation: or, Who won the Mill-Whewell debate?
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Chapter
Niiniluoto, Ilkka;
(1995)
Hintikka and Whewell on Aristotelian induction
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Chapter
Holton, Gerald;
(1997)
On Robert Merton, Mary Somerville, and the moral authority of science
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Article
Wettersten, John;
(1994)
William Whewell: Problems of induction vs. problems of rationality
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Casini, Paolo;
(1981)
Herschel, Whewell, Stuart Mill e l'“analogia della natura”
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Ruse, Michael;
(1977)
William Whewell and the argument from design
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Richards, Joan L.;
(1996)
Observing science in early Victorian England: Recent scholarship on William Whewell
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Thesis
Valone, David A.;
(1994)
The dark and tangled recesses of knowledge: Theology and the moral sciences at Cambridge, 1812-1837
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Metcalfe, John F.;
(1991)
Whewell's developmental psychologism: A Victorian account of scientific progress
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Article
Snyder, Laura J.;
(1994)
It's all necessarily so: William Whewell on scientific truth
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Preyer, Robert O.;
(1988)
The language of discovery: William Whewell and George Eliot
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Article
Lanaro, Giorgio;
(1983)
Whewell e il positivismo di Comte
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Thesis
McNally, Donald H.;
(1982)
Science and the divine order: Law, idea, and method in William Whewell's philosophy of science
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Article
Fisch, Menachem;
(1985)
Necessary and contingent truth in William Whewell's antithetical theory of knowledge
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Chapter
Jacobs, Struan;
(1994)
Whewell's philosophy of science and ethics
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