Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

chemie --- Chemistry --- Philosophy and science --- Chimie --- Philosophie et sciences --- Philosophy --- Periodicals. --- Philosophie --- Périodiques --- Philosophy and science. --- Philosophy. --- #FHIW:CAT1 --- Periodicals --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- General and Others

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Philosophy and science. --- Biology --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Bioethics. --- Rabbinical literature. --- Philosophie et sciences --- Biologie --- Anthropologie philosophique --- Bioéthique --- Littérature rabbinique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Bible --- Allegorical interpretations. --- Necessite (Philosophie) --- Hasard. --- Mythe dans la Bible. --- Philosophie. --- Chance. --- Bioéthique --- Littérature rabbinique --- Biologie - Philosophie.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also outlines such a logic. It is the logic of questions and answers. Thus inquiry in the sense of knowledge-seeking becomes inquiry in the sense of interrogation. Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will undoubtedly be considered the fundamental theorem of all epistemology, viz., the virtual identity of optimal strategies of pure discovery with optimal deductive strategies. Questions to Nature, of course, must include observations and experiments. Hintikka shows, in fact, how the logic of experimental inquiry can be understood from the interrogative vantage point. Other important topics examined include induction (in a forgotten sense that has nevertheless played a role in science), explanation, the incommensurability of theories, theory-ladenness of observations, and identifiability.

Philosophy of science --- Discoveries in science --- Logic --- Discoveries in science. --- Logic. --- Philosophy and science. --- History. --- Epistemology. --- Philosophy of Science. --- History, general. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Science --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Science and philosophy --- Methodology --- Breakthroughs, Scientific --- Discoveries, Scientific --- Scientific breakthroughs --- Scientific discoveries --- Creative ability in science --- Research

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Universities and Institutes had a major influence on "Continental" thought in the field of epistemology and probability. In fact, Merrilee and Wes spent various periods lecturing at the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Rome, Trieste, Catania and Pisa, as well as in the University of Constance, where they helped to build a strong cultural "bridge" with the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science. The Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science is particularly thankful to the Salmons for their ongoing cooperation and frequent visits. We must not forget that Wes Salmon was in the Florence Center and at the Philosophy Department of Florence, as visiting scholar, on many occasions, and that he made important contributions which have later appeared in Italian journals, such as Iride and Rivista di jilosojia. Merrilee was a speaker at the Conference on "Genetics, Linguistics, and Archaeology" (May 20-24,1991), organized by the Florence Center. Both Wes and Merrilee often enlivened the arguments of the initiatives they took part in.

Science --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Salmon, Merrilee H. --- Salmon, Wesley C. --- Congresses --- Philosophy and science. --- Logic. --- Epistemology. --- Philosophy of nature. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Philosophy of Nature. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Psychology --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Science and philosophy --- Science. --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities. The discovered paradigmatic, historical characteristics of scientific knowledge, and the role of rhetoric, interpretation and contextuality enabled us to use similar arguments in natural sciences too. In this way a new research field, the hermeneutics of science emerged based upon the works of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger and Gadamer. A dialogue between philosophers and scientists begins in this volume on hermeneutic approaches to physics, biology, ethology, mathematics and cognitive science. Scientific principles, methodologies, discourse, language, and metaphors are analyzed, as well as the role of the lay public and the legitimation of science. Different hermeneutical-phenomenological approaches to perception, experiments, methods, discovery and justification and the genesis of science are presented. Hermeneutics shed a new light on the incommensurability of paradigms, the possibility of translation and the historical understanding of science.

Hermeneutics --- Science --- -Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Criticism --- Philosophy --- -Philosophy --- Congresses --- Philosophy and science. --- Modern philosophy. --- Phenomenology . --- History. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Phenomenology. --- History, general. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Philosophy, Modern --- Modern philosophy --- Science and philosophy