History of Philosophy of Science New Trends and Perspectives [Hardcover]

This volume includes recent contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view and of the highest topicality: the range of the topics covers all fields in the philosophy of the science provided by authors from around the world focusing on ancient, modern and contemporary periods in the development of the science philosophy. This proceedings is for the scientific community and students at graduate level as well as postdocs in this interdisciplinary field of research.

A. History of Philosophy of Science - New Trends and Perspectives. I. On the Notion of `Law'; M.L.D. Chiara, R. Giuntini. Hume on Sense Impressions and Objects; M. Frasca-Spada. Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science; M. Friedman. Neo-Kantian Origins of Modern Empiricism: on the Relation between Popper and the Vienna Circle; L. Scha?fer. II. Concerning some Philosophical Reasons for the Recourse of Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the Thought of Newton and Leibniz; W. Simonsen. Kant on the Apriority of Causal Laws; L. Anderson. Whewell and the Scientists: Science and Philosophy of Science in 19th Century Britain; L.J. Snyder. Brouwer's Argument for the Unity of Scientific Theories; M. Van Atten. The Role of Models in Boltzmann's Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1903-1906); N. De Courtenay. Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus; S.G. Sterrett. The Modern History of Scientific Explanation; G. Hardcastle. From the Values of Scientific Philosphy to the Value Neutrality of the Philosophy of Science; D.J. Stump. III. Helmholtz's Methodology of Sensory Science, the Zeichentheorie, and Physical Models of Hearing Mechanisms; P.J. McDonald. Physics without Pictures? The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach's (Unnoticed) Middle-Way; M. Neuber. Ludwig Boltzmann's Mathematical Argument for Atomism; T. Wilholt; IV> Hilbert's Program to Axiomatize Physics (in Analogy to Geometry) and its Impact on Schlick, Carl)