The rise of scientific philosophy

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reichenbach, Hans, 1891-1953
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, c1951.
Materias:
Filosofía
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. The roots of speculative philosophy
  • The question
  • The search for generality and the pseudo explanation
  • The search for certainty and the rationalistic conception of knowledge
  • The search for moral directives and the ethico-cognitive parallelism
  • The empiricist approach: success and failure
  • The twofold nature of classical physics: its empirical and its rational aspect
  • Part Two. The results of scientific philosophy
  • The origin of the new philosophy
  • The nature of geometry
  • What is time?
  • The laws of nature
  • Are there atoms?
  • Evolution
  • Modern logic
  • Predictive knowledge
  • Interlude: Hamlet's soliloquy
  • The functional conception of knowledge
  • The nature of ethics
  • The old and the new philosophy: A comparison.

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