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The 13 essays in this volume are selected works of Robert E. Butts, originally published over a period of many years. Most of the essays analyze aspects of the work of Galileo, Leibniz, Kant and Whewell; others deal with the question of the unity of the sciences and with the question of toleration in academe. The papers share a common philosophical commitment to the principle of pragmatism, and seek to show that pragmatism emerges historically in unexpected places. Emphasis is placed upon issues in methodology and theory of knowledge. The book should appeal to those interested in history of modern philosophy, history and philosophy of science, and the philosophical fortunes of pragmatism.

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Author:   Robert E. Butts
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1993 ed.
Volume:   155
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.590kg
ISBN:  

9780792324980

ISBN 10:   0792324986
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   30 September 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Some tactics in Galileo’s propaganda for the mathematization of scientific experience.- 2. Leibniz on choosing between rival scientific hypotheses.- 3. Philosophers as professional relativists.- 4. Kant’s schemata as semantical rules.- 5. The methodological structure of Kant’s metaphysics of science.- 6. Teleology and scientific method in Kant’s Critique of Judgment.- 7. The grammar of reason: Hamann’s challenge to Kant.- 8. Metaphysics, methodology and the pragmatic unity of the sciences.- 9. Necessary truth in Whewell’s theory of science.- 10. Whewell’s logic of induction.- 11. Consilience of inductions and the problem of conceptual change in science.- 12. Whewell on Newton’s rules of philosophizing.- 13. ‘A purely scientific temper’: Victorian expressions of the ideal of an autonomous science.- Bibliography of Works Cited.- Index of Names and Subjects.

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