The rise of scientific philosophy
By: Hans Reichenbach
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. The roots of speculative philosophy; title: The question; title: The search for generality and the pseudo explanation; title: The search for certainty and the rationalistic conception of knowledge; title: The search for moral directives and the ethico-cognitive parallelism; title: The empiricist approach: success and failure; title: The twofold nature of classical physics: its empirical and its rational aspect; title: Part Two. The results of scientific philosophy; title: The origin of the new philosophy; title: The nature of geometry; title: What is time?; title: The laws of nature; title: Are there atoms?; title: Evolution; title: Modern logic; title: Predictive knowledge; title: Interlude: Hamlet's soliloquy; title: The functional conception of knowledge; title: The nature of ethics; title: The old and the new philosophy: A comparison.