Philosophy in science
Subtitle: an historical introduction
By: Michael Heller ; appendices and biographical notes by Małgorzata Szczerbińska-Polak ; translated by Kenneth W. Kemp & Zuzanna Maślanka Kieroń
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9783642177040
Subjects: Philosophy of nature; Philosophy; Science
Notes: "The present translation is based on the second Polish edition of this book"--P. viii.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English translated from the Polish.
Table of contents: title: The first task of the philosophy of nature; title: The problem of elementarity; title: The philosophical myth of creation : the Platonic philosophy of nature; title: Aristotle's Physics; title: Aristotle's method of cosmological speculation; title: Descartes' mechanism; title: Isaac Newton and the mathematical principles of natural philosophy; title: The world of Leibniz : the best of all possible worlds; title: Immanuel Kant : the a priori conditions of the sciences; title: The romantic philosophy of nature; title: The cosmology of Whitehead: the universe as process; title: Popper's open universe; title: Science as philosophy; title: Problems and methods of the philosophy of nature.