What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-90-277-0191-6 (ISBN)
I / Philosophy of Science.- I. A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning.- II. On Elementary Particle Theory.- III. Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies.- IV. Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy.- II / History of Science.- V. Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics.- VI. The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics.- III / General Philosophy.- VII. On Being in Two Places at Once.- VIII. Copernicus’ Rôle in Kant’s Revolution.- IX. It’s Actual, so It’s Possible.- X. On Having the Same Visual Experiences.- XI. Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments.- IV / Logic.- XII. Imagining the Impossible.- XIII. On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics.- XIV. Good Inductive Reasons.- XV. A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity.- XVI. The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science.- XVII. The Idea of a Logic of Discovery.- V / Religion.- XVIII. The Agnostic’s Dilemma.- XIX. What I Don’t Believe.- VI / The Theory Of Flight.- Introduction, by Edward MacKinnon, S.J..- XX. Lecture One: The Discovery of Air.- XXI. Lecture Two: The Shape of An Idea.- XXII. Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.12.1971 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Synthese Library ; 38 |
| Zusatzinfo | XII, 390 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-277-0191-1 / 9027701911 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-277-0191-6 / 9789027701916 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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