Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of ScienceAddressing a wide range of topics, from Newton to Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science, these essays critically examine themes that have been central to the influential work of philosopher Michael Friedman. Special focus is given to Friedman's revealing study of both history of science and philosophy in his work on Kant, Newton, Einstein, and other major figures. This interaction of history and philosophy is the subject of the editors' "manifesto" and serves to both explain and promote the essential ties between two disciplines usually regarded as unrelated. |
Contents
Newtons Forces in Kants Critique | |
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Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint | |
How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity | |
The Paracletes of Quantum Gravity | |
Dirac on Quantization | |
Theory Coordination and Empirical Meaning in Modern Physics | |
NOTES | |
An Appreciation and a Critique | |
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Kant and Lambert on Geometrical Postulates in the Reform | |
Two Studies in the Reception of Kants Philosophy of Arithmetic | |
Philosophy Geometry and Logic in Leibniz Wolff and the Early | |
The Balancing Argument | |
Mathematical Method in Kant Schelling and Hegel | |
Validity in the Cultural Sciences? | |
Kantian or Hegelian | |
A Tale of Confusion | |
Quines Objection and Carnaps Aufbau | |
Kant Carnap Kuhn and Beyond | |
NOTES | |
Synthesis the Synthetic A Priori and the Origins of Modern | |
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Philosophy of mathematics | |
Einstein | |
Contributors | |
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