Book ID: CBB922757604

Science, Method, and Argument in Galileo: Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Essays (2021)

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This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo’s life and thought—his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as “father of modern science.” These republished essays include many hard to find articles, out of print works, and chapters which are not available online. The collection provides an excellent resource of the author's lifelong dedication to the subject. Thus, the book contains critical analyses of some key Galilean arguments about the laws of falling bodies and the Copernican hypothesis of the earth’s motion. There is also a group of chapters in which Galileo’s argumentation is compared and contrasted with that of other figures such as Socrates, Karl Marx, Giordano Bruno, and his musicologist father Vincenzo Galilei. The chapters on Galileo’s trial illustrate an approach to the science-vs-religion issue which Finocchiaro labels “para-clerical” and conceptualizes in terms of a judicious consideration of arguments for and against Galileo and the Church. Other essays examine argumentation about Galileo’s life and thought by the major Galilean scholars of recent decades. The book will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, logic, philosophy of science, history of science, history of religion, philosophy of religion, argumentation, rhetoric, and communication studies.

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Authors & Contributors
Generali, Dario
Finocchiaro, Maurice A.
Bucciantini, Massimo
Mary Ann Caws
Arrighi, Claudia
Valleriani, Matteo
Concepts
Science and religion
Science and society
Philosophy of science
Science and politics
Biographies
Methodology of science; scientific method
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
18th century
20th century
21st century
16th century
Places
Italy
Europe
England
France
Institutions
School of Milan
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