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Philosophy in Science
An Historical Introduction
ISBN/EAN: 9783642177040
Umbreit-Nr.: 1129480
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xi, 167 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 23.03.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeChapter I. The First Task of the Philosophy of Nature-The Problem of Elementarity.-Chapter II. The Philosophical Myth of Creation-The Platonic Philosophy of Nature.-Chapter III. Aristotle's Physics.-Chapter IV. Aristotle's Method of Cosmological Speculation.-Chapter V. Descartes' Mechanism.-Chapter VI. Isaac Newton and The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.-Chapter VII. The World of Leibniz: The Best of All Possible Worlds.-Chapter VIII. Immanuel Kant: The a priori Conditions of the Sciences.-Chapter IX. The Romantic Philosophy of Nature.-Chapter X. The Cosmology of Whitehead: The Universe as Process.- Chapter XI. Popper's Open Universe.-Chapter XII. Science as Philosophy.-Chapter XIII. Problems and Methods of the Philosophy of Nature.