Why does history matter to philosophy and the sciences? : selected essays / by Lorenz Krüger. Ed. by Thomas Sturm, Wolfgang Carl, and Lorraine Daston

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Krüger, Lorenz (Autor)
Altres autors: Sturm, Thomas (Editor), Carl, Wolfgang (Editor), Daston, Lorraine (Editor)
Format: Llibre
Idioma:German
Publicat: Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2005
Col·lecció:Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie 66
Matèries:
Taula de continguts:
  • Did Kant aim to prove the completeness of his table of judgements?
  • Was John Locke an Empiricist?
  • Probebility in Leibniz
  • Intertheoretic relations as a tool for the rational reconstruction of scientific development
  • Reduction as a problem : some remarks on the history of statistical mechanics from a philosophical point of view
  • Unity of science and cultural pluralism
  • Are statistical explanations possible?
  • Causality and freedom
  • Matter for us and in itself : what are primary properties?
  • Does progress in science lead to truth?
  • Has the correspondence theory of truth been refuted? : from Gottlob Frege to Donals Davidson
  • Does a science need knowledge of its history?
  • Why do we study the history of philosophy?
  • How philosophy and science came to differ