The humanistic background of science /

"The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein"--

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Reisch, George A., 1962- (Editor ), Tuboly, Adam Tamas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Colección:SUNY series in American philosophy and cultural thought.
Temas:
Frank, Philipp, > 1884-1966.
Frank, Philipp, > 1884-1966
Science > Philosophy.
Science and the humanities.
Sciences et sciences humaines.
Science and the humanities
Science > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Chronology of Philipp Frank's Life
  • Philipp Frank: A Crusader for Scientific Philosophy
  • 1. Vienna-Prague-Boston: The Life of Philipp Frank
  • 1.1. Vienna: A City That Breathed Physics and Philosophy of Science
  • 1.2. Prague: The City of Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein
  • 1.3. Harvard, Massachusetts, and Boston: The Promise of a Better Future
  • 1.3.1. A Refugee between Nazism and Thomism
  • 1.3.2. A Home at Harvard
  • 1.3.3. The Conferences on Science, Philosophy, and Religion and Frank's Contribution
  • 1.3.4. The Institute and General Education
  • 1.4. The Final Years
  • 2. Dating the Manuscript
  • 3. The Multilayered Significance of The Humanistic Background
  • 3.1. The Main Theses and Approach of The Humanistic Background
  • 3.2. The Humanistic Background in the American Scene
  • 3.3. The Humanistic Background, Thomas Kuhn and the Socio-Historical Approach to Scientific Knowledge
  • 3.4. Evaluating The Humanistic Background Today
  • 4. Editorial Preparation and Remarks
  • 5. Acknowledgments
  • List of Archives and their Abbreviations
  • References
  • Part I
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Science, Facts, and Values
  • 1. Science and Poetry
  • 2. Charges against the Monopoly of Science
  • 3. Twentieth-Century Science and Philosophy
  • 4. The "Real World" Is Not Describable
  • 5. The Humanities Are Trailing behind the Natural Sciences
  • 6. The "Special Sciences" Don't Exhaust "Science"
  • 7. Semantic and Pragmatic Components of Science
  • 8. Philosophical Schools Woo the Support of Science
  • 9. Principles of Science and Human "Values"
  • Chapter 2. The Longing for a Humanization of Science
  • 1. Dissatisfaction with Nineteenth-Century Science
  • 2. Emerson on the Changing Role of Science
  • 3. Lord Herbert Samuel for Modern Science
  • 4. Dehumanization of Science.
  • 5. Soviet Philosophy and Modern Science
  • 6. The Birth of Modern Science Was the Birth of Dissatisfaction
  • 7. Bacon on the Copernican System
  • 8. How Science Has Been "Humanized"
  • 9. Analogies as Humanizing Elements
  • 10. "Humanization," "Metaphysics," and the "Inner Eye"
  • 11. Metaphysics, Common Sense, and the Inner Eye
  • 12. The Nature of Metaphysical Statements
  • 13. The Inner Eye and Intuition
  • Chapter 3. Metaphysical Interpretations of Science
  • 1. The Founder of Pragmatism on Science and Philosophy
  • 2. Peirce's Conception of Philosophy
  • 3. Metaphysics Nearer to Common Sense than Science
  • 4. The Purpose of Metaphysical Interpretation
  • 5. Metaphysics as Science
  • 6. The Laws of Physics and Their Metaphysical Interpretation
  • 7. How Scientists Have Interpreted Their Own Theories
  • Chapter 4. The Sociology of Metaphysical Interpretations
  • 1. Can Science Be "Purged" of Philosophy?
  • 2. Science and Chance Philosophies
  • 3. The Attitudes of Scientists and Authorities
  • 4. The Battle of Worldviews
  • 5. Purging Physics and Metaphysics
  • 6. Science and Reality
  • 7. Max Planck and the Real World
  • 8. Meanings and Examples of "Real"
  • 9. Sociological Role of "Reality"
  • 10. "Reality" in Soviet Philosophy
  • Chapter 5. Philosophy of Science and Political Ideology
  • 1. Sociology of Knowledge
  • 2. The General Sense of Ideology
  • 3. Mannheim, Ideology, and Sociology of Knowledge
  • 4. Forms of Social Influence
  • 5. Facts and Interpretation
  • 6. Sociology of Science
  • 7. Social Class and Social Situation
  • 8. The Solution to the Puzzle
  • Chapter 6. Sociology of Science and the Search for a Democratic Metaphysics
  • 1. Validation and Theory Building
  • 2. Science as a Compromise between Technology and Political Philosophy
  • 3. The Scientific Conscience
  • 4. Philosophical Interpretations and Democracy.
  • 5. The Physical and the Socio-cosmic Universe
  • Part II
  • Chapter 7. Scholastic Philosophy and Thomism
  • 1. The Meanings of Rational and Intelligible
  • 2. The Role of Philosophical Schools
  • 3. Science and "Thomism"
  • 4. The Thomistic Theory of Matter
  • 5. The Social Significance of Thomistic Philosophy
  • 6. On Angels and Genuine Laws
  • 7. Thomism and Physical Laws
  • 8. Analogical and Scientific Thinking
  • Chapter 8. The Physical Universe as a Symbol
  • 1. The Moral Universe
  • 2. Physical Science in the Bible
  • 3. The Physical Universe and Human Behavior
  • 4. Scholastic "Scientism" and Modern "Positivism"
  • 5. Shifting the Problem to Revelation
  • 6. Realism and Nominalism
  • 7. The Situation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Chapter 9. Union, Divorce, and Reunion between Science and Philosophy
  • 1. Science and Philosophy in the British and Soviet Encyclopedias
  • 2. "Truce" through a Naturalization of Science
  • 3. Attempts at a Reunion by a Positive Philosophy
  • 4. The Role of "Sociology" in Positive Philosophy
  • 5. The "Truth" of General Principles in Positive Philosophy
  • 6. The Relative Truth of Theories
  • 7. Positive Philosophy and Marginal Metaphysics
  • 8. Science and Philosophy after the Reunion
  • 9. The Name "Philosophy" as a Challenge
  • Chapter 10. Science, Democracy, and the New Wave of Positivism
  • 1. Science after the French Revolution
  • 2. Positivism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (Stallo)
  • 3. Positivism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (Mach)
  • 4. The Reception of Mach and Stallo?
  • 5. Conventionalism (Poincaré, Le Roy)
  • 6. Abel Rey and the Bankruptcy of Science
  • 7. Duhem's Accommodation of Positivism and Metaphysics
  • Chapter 11. The Vienna Circle: Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, and Otto Neurath
  • 1. The Turning Point in Positivism.
  • 2. Logical Positivism and the Theory of Correspondence
  • 3. Philosophy as Activity and the Unified Picture
  • 4. Cross-connections among the Sciences
  • 5. Changes in the Science of Meaning
  • 6. The Vienna Circle and the Pragmatics of Metaphysics
  • 7. Cognitive Significance and Scientific Value
  • Chapter 12. Pragmatism
  • 1. Pragmatism (William James, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey)
  • 2. Peirce's Pragmatism and Positivism
  • 3. James's Pragmatism and Metaphysics
  • 4. Dewey and Political Interpretations of Science
  • 5. A New Development: Scientific Empiricism
  • 6. The Meaning and Significance of Bridgman's Operationalism
  • 7. Nagel's Contextualistic Naturalism
  • Chapter 13. Mechanistic and Dialectical Materialism
  • 1. Mechanistic Materialism
  • 2. La Mettrie's Materialism
  • 3. Purposiveness in Nature
  • 4. Materialism Refuted?
  • 5. Materialism versus Positivism
  • 6. Soviet Attacks against Positivism
  • 7. The Conversion of Mass and "Star-Spangled" Operationalism
  • Chapter 14. The Laws and Politics of Dialectical Materialism
  • 1. Dialectical versus Mechanistic Materialism
  • 2. Diamat and Philosophy
  • 3. Diamat and Realism
  • 4. The Dialectical Laws
  • 5. Quantitative and Qualitative Changes
  • 6. Social Change and Natural Science
  • Conclusion: Einstein's Philosophy of Science
  • 1. The Positivistic Basis
  • 2. The Metaphysical Basis
  • 3. The Analogical-Religious Basis
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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