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As the grip of Franco's dictatorship weakened, philosophy of science established itself in many universities around Spain. What ensued was a very interesting experiment in the development of ideas. Unlike other countries where philosophy of science grew as part of a tradition, in Spain many approaches to the discipline were transplanted all at once and had to compete against each other. The early technical papers on analytic philosophy or German structuralism eventually gave way to the blending of styles and the appearance of original, serious work as Spanish philosophy of science matured. This text should make that work accessible to graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as to professionals, of philosophy, science studies, or Spanish culture. Several of the essays employ meticulous historical research to inform philosophical thought. Others examine the cutting edge of American philosophy or reformulate important European work. Still others rescue Spanish tradition itself and use it to guide their thinking about science and technology.

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Author:   Gonzalo Munévar
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1996 ed.
Volume:   186
Weight:   0.813kg
ISBN:  

9780792341475

ISBN 10:   0792341473
Pages:   363
Publication Date:   30 September 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Story of a Non-Discovery: Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy.- Empirical Methods in Mathematics. A Case Study: Goldbach’s Conjecture.- Philosophy and Cosmology.- The Incompleteness of Technics.- Bayesian Induction and Statistical Inference.- The Nature of Science and the Problem of Demarcation.- Biological and Moral Altruism.- The Ultimate Epistemological Consequences of the Darwinian Conception.- The Present Concept of the Gene.- The Philosophy of Technology Assessment.- The Biologization of our Culture: The Challenge of New Technologies.- Four Instrumental Proposals.- Prototype-Based Judgements and Skepticism about Rationality in Naturalized Epistemology.- The Role of Methodology in Models of Scientific Change.- Prediction and Mathematics: The Wittgensteinian Approach.- Scientific Progress: From the Point of View of Phenomenological Intentionality.

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