Discourse on a new method
Subtitle: reinvigorating the marriage of history and philosophy of science
By: edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson.
Contributors: Friedman, Michael, 1947-; Domski, Mary, 1975-; Dickson, Michael, 1968-
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812696622
Subjects: Science -- philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discourse on a new method, or a manifesto for a synthetic approach to history and philosophy of science / Mary Domski and Michael Dickson; title: Pt. 1. The Newtonian era; title: The axiomatic tradition in 17th century mechanics / Domenico Bertoloni Meli; title: The reduction to the pristine state in Robert Boyle's corpuscular philosophy / William R. Newman; title: Newton as historically-minded philosopher / Mary Domski; title: Newton's forces in Kant's critique / Andrew Janiak; title: Pt. 2. Kant; title: Kant and Lambert on geometrical postulates in the reform of metaphysics / Alison Laywine; title: Two studies in the reception of Kant's philosophy of arithmetic / Charles Parsons; title: Philosophy, geometry, and logic in Leibniz, Wolff, and the early Kant / Daniel Sutherland; title: Kant on attractive and repulsive force : the balancing argument / Daniel Warren; title: Mathematical method in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel / Frederick C. Beiser; title: Pt. 3. Logical positivism and neo-Kantianism; title: Validity in the cultural sciences? /  John ichael Krois; title: Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman : Kantian or Hegelian dynamics of reason? / Alan Richardson; title: From Mach to Carnap: a tale of confusion / Paul Pojman; title: Quine's objection and Carnap's Aufbau / Thomas Ricketts; title: "Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural" : Einstein, general relativity, and the contingent a priori / Don Howard; title: Pt. 4. History and philosophy of physics; title: How Hume and Mach helped Einstein find special relativity / John Norton; title: The paracletes of quantum gravity / James Mattingly; title: Dirac and mathematical beauty / Michael Dickson; title: Theory, coordination, and empirical meaning in modern physics / Scott Tanona; title: The "relativized a priori" : an appreciation and a critique / Thomas Ryckman; title: Pt. 5. Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science; title: The role of the foundations of mathematics in the development of Carnap's theory of theories / William Demopoulos; title: Synthesis, the synthetic a priori, and the origins of modern space-time theory / Robert DiSalle; title: How should we describe scientific change? or : a neo-Popperian reads Friedman / Noretta Koertge; title: The construction of reason : Kant, Carnap, Kuhn, and beyond / Richard Creath; title: Back to "back to Kant" / Mark Wilson; title: Pt. 6. Michael Friedman responds; title: Synthetic history reconsidered / Michael Friedman.