Book ID: CBB001032099

The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (2009)

unapi

Heidelberger, Michael (Editor)


de Gruyter


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: viii + 376 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Stump, David J. (2011) Review of "The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences". HOPOS (p. 129). unapi

Essay Review Hyder, David (2014) The World Fully Lost. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 145-147). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Walter, Scott (2009) Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 193). unapi

Chapter Schiemann, Gregor (2009) Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 251). unapi

Chapter Freudenthal, Gad (2009) “Instrumentalism” and “Realism” as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 269). unapi

Chapter Nordmann, Alfred (2009) The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 313). unapi

Chapter Heidelberger, Michael; Schiemann, Gregor (2009) Introduction. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 1). unapi

Chapter McMullin, Ernan (2009) Hypothesis in Early Modern Science. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 7). unapi

Chapter Snyder, Laura J. (2009) Hypotheses in 19th-Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 59). unapi

Chapter Heidelberger, Michael (2009) Contingent Laws of Nature in Emile Boutroux. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 99). unapi

Chapter Hüttemann, Andreas (2009) Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 145). unapi

Chapter Bouriau, Christophe (2009) Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism?. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 221). unapi

Chapter Bartels, Andreas (2009) Hypotheticity and Realism---Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 295). unapi

Chapter Esfeld, Michael (2009) Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 341). unapi

Chapter Specht, Rainer (2009) Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 39). unapi

Chapter Pulte, Helmut (2009) From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's “Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory”. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 77). unapi

Chapter Heinzmann, Gerhard (2009) Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré. In: The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences (p. 169). unapi

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Ciancio, Luca
Silvano, Giovanni
Cataldi, Raffaele
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