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The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences
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Edited by:
Michael Heidelberger
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
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How was the hypothetical character of theories of experience thought about throughout the history of science? The essays cover periods from the middle ages to the 19th and 20th centuries. It is fascinating to see how natural scientists and philosophers were increasingly forced to realize that a natural science without hypotheses is not possible.
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Michael Heidelberger, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Gregor Schiemann, Universität Wuppertal.
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Introduction
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Hypothesis in Early Modern Science
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Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke’s Realm
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Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill
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From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann’s “Principles of the Galilean–Newtonian Theory”
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Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux
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Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz’s Philosophy of Science
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Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré
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Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré’s Defense of Galilei Spacetime
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Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism?
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Werner Heisenberg’s Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science
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“Instrumentalism” and “Realism” as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides
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Hypotheticity and Realism – Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism
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The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses
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Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature
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Backmatter
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eBook published on:
December 22, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9783110210620
Hardcover published on:
December 11, 2009
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110206944
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
376
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Academics, Institutes, Libraries
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