Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
DeWitt, Richard
INDICE: List of Figures .Acknowledgments .Introduction .Part I: Fundamental Issues 1 .1 Worldviews .2 Truth .3 Empirical Facts and Philosophical/Conceptual Facts .4 Confirming and Disconfirming Evidence and Reasoning .5 The Quine Duhem Thesis and Implications for Scientific Method .6 A Philosophical Interlude: Problems and Puzzles of Induction .7 Falsifiability .8 Instrumentalism and Realism .Part II: The Transition from the Aristotelian Worldview to the Newtonian Worldview .9 The Structure of the Universe on the Aristotelian Worldview .10 The Preface to Ptolemy s Almagest: The Earth as Spherical, Stationary, and at the Center of the Universe .11 Astronomical Data: The Empirical Facts .12 Astronomical Data: The Philosophical/Conceptual Facts .13 The Ptolemaic System .14 The Copernican System .15 The Tychonic System .16 Kepler s System .17 Galileo and the Evidence from the Telescope .18 A Summary of Problems Facing the Aristotelian Worldview .19 Philosophical and Conceptual Connections in the Development of the New Science .20 Overview of the New Science and the Newtonian Worldview .21 Philosophical Interlude: What Is a Scientific Law? .22 The Development of the Newtonian Worldview, 1700 1900 .Part III: Recent Developments in Science and Worldviews .23 The Special Theory of Relativity .24 The General Theory of Relativity .25 Philosophical Interlude: Are (Some) Scientific Theories Incommensurable? .26 Introduction to Quantum Theory: Basic Empirical Facts and the Mathematics of Quantum Theory .27 The Reality Question: The Measurement Problem and Interpretations of Quantum Theory .28 Quantum Theory and Locality: EPR, Bell s Theorem, and the Aspect Experiments .29 Overview of the Theory of Evolution .30 Reflections on Evolution .31 Worldviews: Concluding Thoughts .Chapter Notes and Suggested Reading .References .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-119-11889-3
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 26/01/2018
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- Idioma: Inglés