Mathematical sciences as symbolic form: the objects and objectivity ofscience in Ernst Cassirer’sphilosophy ofscience and culture.Jørgen Røysland Aarnes -2024 -Continental Philosophy Review 57 (3):305-324.detailsIn this paper, I explore how Cassirer’s early and mature epistemology,philosophy ofscience, andphilosophy of culture make up a coherent and comprehensive view of the mathematical sciences that is fruitful for understanding contemporaryscience. In Cassirer’s first systematic work, Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff, the mathematical sciences are understood through the concept of function. This implies that scientific investigation aims at increased unity in a system of functional concepts, rather than at answering the substance-rooted question of (...) what is. In his mature work, Philosophie der symbolischen Formen, Cassirer expands his inquiry to diverse notions of objects and principles of symbolic forming, recognizing the mathematical sciences as one of many ways of structuring experience, alongside other symbolic forms such as myth and ordinary language. Together, Cassirer’s early and mature works detail the preconditions and idiosyncrasies of the unfolding of scientific objects and situate the mathematical sciences within the totality of human experience. Applying these insights to contemporary interpretations ofscience suggests connecting common misconceptions ofscience to challenges in translating objects between symbolic forms. I propose the concepts of domestication and mythification ofscience as instructive for clearing up such misunderstandings. (shrink)
From the Dual Character of Chemistry to Practical Realism and Back Again:Philosophy ofScience of Rein Vihalemm.Peeter Müürsepp,Gulzhikhan Nurysheva,Zhumagul Bekenova &Galymzhan Usenov -2019 -Problemos 96:107-120.detailsThe focus of the paper is on Rein Vihalemm’s novel approach toscience called practical realism. From the perspective of Vihalemm,science is not only theoretical but first and foremost a practical activity. This kind of approach puts chemistry rather than physics into the position of a typicalscience as chemistry has a dual character resting on both constructive-hypothetico-deductive and classifying-historico-descriptive types of cognition. Chemists deal with finding out the laws of nature like the physicists. However, in (...) addition to this they deal with substances or stuff that is rather an activity typical to natural history. The analysis of the dual character of chemistry brings about the need to analyse philosophically the reasons why physics has held the position of the onlyscience proper so far. The comparative analysis of physics and chemistry at the basis of practical realism suggests that it is chemistry rather than physics that should hold a special position among sciences. Perhaps we should exchange ϕ-science for χ-science. (shrink)
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The Roles that Otto Selz and Karl Popper Played in 20th-Century Psychology andPhilosophy ofScience.John Wettersten -2017 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 47 (3):255-279.detailsThe early research of Karl Popper both in psychology and inphilosophy ofscience is described; its basis for his later breakthroughs in thephilosophy ofscience is explained. His debt to Otto Selz’s thought psychology is thereby detailed. Otto Selz’sphilosophy ofscience is then explained, and its conflict with Popper’s early as well as his later views is portrayed. These studies of the conflicting views of Popper’s early views and Selz’sphilosophy (...) ofscience provide the basis for demonstrating the mistakes that Michel ter Hark has made in claiming that the alleged originality of Popper’s views occurred only in the 1970s and are little more than a rehash of Selz’s alleged evolutionary epistemology. (shrink)
Epistemological Problems in thePhilosophy ofScience, II.Edward MacKinnon -1968 -Review of Metaphysics 22 (2):329 - 358.detailsThis article completes the study begun in I by a detailed consideration of errol harris's, "the foundations of metaphysics inscience" and by an independent interpretation of the epistemological foundations of scientific theories. This is done in terms of two components labelled 'a physical language' and 'a mathematical language'. A physical language is conceived as a transformed extension of ordinary language which preserves its basic structural principles while modifying its descriptive metaphysics. The relation between such a physical language and (...) a mathematical system is explained by a correspondence between second order physical predicates and first order mathematical predicates. (shrink)
(1 other version)Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History andPhilosophy ofScience: Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History andPhilosophy ofScience.Evandro Agazzi,David Gruender &Jaakko Hintikka -1980 - Springer.detailsThe two volumes to which this is apreface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History andPhilosophy ofScience. The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History andPhilosophy ofScience (IUHPS) under the auspices of the IUHPS, the Italian Society for Logic andPhilosophy ofScience, and the Domus Galilaeana of Pisa, headed by Professor Vincenzo Cappelletti. Domus Galilaeana also served as the host (...) institution, with some help from the University of Pisa. The Conference took place in Pisa, Italy, on September 4-8, 1978. The editors of these two volumes of the Proceedings of the Pisa Conference acknowledge with gratitude the help by the different sponsoring organizations, and in the first place that by both Divisions of the IUHPS, which made the Conference possible. A special recognition is due to Professor Evandro Agazzi, President of the Italian Society for Logic andPhilosophy ofScience, who was co opted as an additional member of the Organizing Committee. This committee was otherwise identical with the Joint Commission, whose members were initially John Murdoch, John North, Arpad Szab6, Robert Butts, Jaakko Hintikka, and Vadim Sadovsky. Later, Erwin Hiebert and Lubos Novy were appointed as additional members. (shrink)
F. H. Bradley and thephilosophy ofscience.W. J. Mander -1991 -International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 5 (1):65 – 78.detailsAbstract It is sometimes thought that Absolute Idealism was undermined by its inability to deal withscience. Through a critical discussion of F. H. Bradley'sphilosophy ofscience, this idea is challenged. His views onscience are divided into a positive and a negative part, and it is argued that, although he found the scientific world view to be essentially false, he was nonetheless able to develop a sympathetic and intelligentphilosophy ofscience. This (...) was basically pragmatic and instrumental in tone, and gave toscience a large measure of autonomy fromphilosophy. His doctrine is connected with certain contemporary ideas in thephilosophy ofscience. (shrink)
Nietzsche’s „Philosophy ofScience“.Dirk Johnson -2016 -Nietzsche Studien 45 (1):268-279.detailsName der Zeitschrift: Nietzsche-Studien Jahrgang: 45 Heft: 1 Seiten: 268-279.
Hidden entities and experimental practice: Towards a two-way traffic between history andphilosophy ofscience.Theodore Arabatzis -unknowndetailsIn this paper I investigate the prospects of integrated history andphilosophy ofscience, by examining how philosophical issues concerning experimental practice and scientific realism can enrich the historical investigation of the careers of "hidden entities", entities that are not accessible to unmediated observation. Conversely, I suggest that the history of those entities has important lessons to teach to thephilosophy ofscience. My overall aim is to illustrate the possibility of a fruitful two-way traffic between (...) history andphilosophy ofscience. (shrink)
Synopsis ofScience: Volume 2: From the Standpoint of the NyayaPhilosophy.James R. Ballantyne -2012 - Cambridge University Press.detailsJames Robert Ballantyne taught oriental languages in India for sixteen years, compiling grammars of Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian, along with translations of Hinduphilosophy. In 1859, for the use of Christian missionaries, he prepared a guide to Hinduism, in English and Sanskrit. Published in two volumes in 1852, Synopsis ofScience was intended to introduce his Indian pupils to Westernscience by using the framework of Hindu Nyayaphilosophy, which was familiar to them and which Ballantyne (...) greatly respected. This second volume proceeds in similar style to the first: through a series of short paragraphs, Ballantyne introduces arithmetic, algebra, calculus, chemistry, botany, zoology, anatomy, physiology, mineralogy and geology. The second part of the volume is a Sanskrit translation. Overall, the work serves as an excellent primary source on the educational aspects of British imperialism. (shrink)
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(1 other version)Normatividad en filosofia de la ciencia: El Caso de la ciencia reguladora (normativity in thephilosophy ofscience: The case of regulatoryscience).Alcázar Francisca Javier Rodríguez -2004 -Theoria 19 (2):173-190.detailsEn este articulo se examina la tradicional caracterización de la filosofía de la ciencia como una disciplina normativa. Se discuten varias concepciones de esta disciplina, cada una de las cuales ofrece una respuesta diferente a la pregunta de si es posible, y cómo, una filosofía de la ciencia genuinamente normativa. De entre esas concepciones, se opta por una forma de naturalismo que se diferencia de otras en la exigeneia de que la normatividad de la filosofía de la ciencia inc!uya la (...) discusión de los objetivos y valores, epistémicos o no, de la ciencia. La necesidad de esta inc!usión se ilustra, finalmente, con el ejemplo de la aetividad conocida como “cicncia reguladora”.This article examines the traditional characterization of thephilosophy ofscience as a normative discipline. Several understandings of this discipline are discussed; each of them offering a different answer to the question whether, and how, a genuinely normativephilosophy ofscience might be possible. Among these views, I choose one variety of naturalism that differs from others in its commitment with the discussion ofscience’s aims and values, either epistemic or non-epistemic. Finally, the need for this inclusion is illustrated with the example of the so-called “regulatoryscience”. (shrink)
The Origins of ModernPhilosophy ofScience 1830-1914.Andrew Pyle (ed.) -1996 - Routledge.detailsFirst published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rorty, language and thephilosophy ofscience.I. Hanzel -2005 -Filozofia 60 (9):656-667.detailsThe aim of the paper is to analyze the consequences of R. Rorty’s pragmatic cum linguistic turn for the understanding of natural and human sciences. The author analyzes first this turn and tries to show that it represents an intersubjectivist type of antirealism. Then he deals with Rorty’s approach to hermeneutics and his understanding of its place in natural and human sciences. Finally, he discusses the consequences of Rorty’s intersubjectivist antirealism for human sciences and tries to show that, on one (...) hand, it represents the philosophical basis of the so-called idea-lism of interpretative humanscience and on the other hand, it enables us to see the latter’s foundations from a new, fresh perspective. (shrink)
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Maya Cosmology andPhilosophy ofScience.Charles R. Twardy -manuscriptdetailsPart of our fascination with the Maya can be attributed to the fact that they were literate . . . that is, the Classic Maya possessed a visible language that consisted of letters and a grammar, and one of the products of their literacy was the book. (Aveni 1992b, p.3).
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