Library Of American University Of Madaba
Your cart is empty.
Radder, Hans.
The Material Realization of Science From Habermas to Experimentation and Referential Realism / [electronic resource] : by Hans Radder. - XIX, 205p. online resource. - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 294 0068-0346 ; .
Preface to the Revised English Edition -- Preface to the First English Edition -- Preface to the Dutch Edition -- Introduction -- PART I HABERMAS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 1 Habermas’s Philosophy of the Natural Sciences -- 2 Analysis and Critique -- PART II EXPERIMENTATION AND REFERENTIAL REALISM -- 3 Experimentation in the Natural Sciences -- 4 Verifiability and Reference, Relativism and Realism -- 5 Specification and Application: Two Case Studies from the History and Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Conclusion -- References -- POSTSCRIPT 2012 -- References to the Postscript -- Index.
The book addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and it proposes a detailed account of a referential realism. This account exploits several fruitful ideas of Jürgen Habermas, it builds on an analysis of scientific experimentation, and it is developed through an in-depth case study of the history of quantum mechanics. The Revised edition, with a new postscript situates the book within the recent debates on the issues under discussion.
9789400741072
Philosophy (General).
Science (General).
Physics.
Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Science, general.
Physics, general.
B1-5802
10
The Material Realization of Science From Habermas to Experimentation and Referential Realism / [electronic resource] : by Hans Radder. - XIX, 205p. online resource. - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 294 0068-0346 ; .
Preface to the Revised English Edition -- Preface to the First English Edition -- Preface to the Dutch Edition -- Introduction -- PART I HABERMAS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 1 Habermas’s Philosophy of the Natural Sciences -- 2 Analysis and Critique -- PART II EXPERIMENTATION AND REFERENTIAL REALISM -- 3 Experimentation in the Natural Sciences -- 4 Verifiability and Reference, Relativism and Realism -- 5 Specification and Application: Two Case Studies from the History and Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Conclusion -- References -- POSTSCRIPT 2012 -- References to the Postscript -- Index.
The book addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and it proposes a detailed account of a referential realism. This account exploits several fruitful ideas of Jürgen Habermas, it builds on an analysis of scientific experimentation, and it is developed through an in-depth case study of the history of quantum mechanics. The Revised edition, with a new postscript situates the book within the recent debates on the issues under discussion.
9789400741072
Philosophy (General).
Science (General).
Physics.
Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Science, general.
Physics, general.
B1-5802
10