The Material Realization of Science [electronic resource] : From Habermas to Experimentation and Referential Realism /
Radder, Hans.author.
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.
"With a new postscript."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Philosophy.
Physics.
Philosophy, general.
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.
Physics, general.
Boston studies in the philosophy of science