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Author : Hans Reichenbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Theory of Relativity and a Priori Knowledge written by Hans Reichenbach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivette Fred-Rivera
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031068742
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Historical and Systematic Perspective on A Priori Knowledge and Justification written by Ivette Fred-Rivera and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective. The author explores Kant’s views in connection with the possibility of revision, something hardly, if at all, done in philosophical literature. Furthermore, the views of well-renowned philosophers such as Quine, Putnam, Kitcher, and Hale are discussed in detail and are put into a historical and systematic perspective. Finally, this book contains a glossary of important notions offering illuminating accounts of a priori knowledge and related notions and explains the relationship between a priori knowledge, fallibility and revision. The detailing of concepts such as ‘defeasibility’, ‘infallibility’, ‘falsifiability’ helps anyone reading philosophical literature to pin down the meaning of the terms and its implications in this context. The enriched and dual approach the author takes makes the book a very useful and lucid guide to the problem of a priori knowledge.
Author : Hans Reichenbach
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486137252
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Direction of Time written by Hans Reichenbach and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished physicist examines emotive significance of time, time order of mechanics, time direction of thermodynamics and microstatistics, time direction of macrostatistics, time of quantum physics, more. 1971 edition.
Author : Edward Skidelsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152357
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Ernst Cassirer written by Edward Skidelsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's thought in its historical and intellectual setting. He presents Cassirer, the author of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, as a defender of the liberal ideal of culture in an increasingly fragmented world, and as someone who grappled with the opposing forces of scientific positivism and romantic vitalism. Cassirer's work can be seen, Skidelsky argues, as offering a potential resolution to the ongoing conflict between the "two cultures" of science and the humanities--and between the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. The first comprehensive study of Cassirer in English in two decades, this book will be of great interest to analytic and continental philosophers, intellectual historians, political and cultural theorists, and historians of twentieth-century Germany.
Author : Michael Bitbol
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402095104
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Constituting Objectivity written by Michael Bitbol and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-29 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, many philosophers of modern physics came to the conclusion that the problem of how objectivity is constituted (rather than merely given) can no longer be avoided, and therefore that a transcendental approach in the spirit of Kant is now philosophically relevant. The usual excuse for skipping this task is that the historical form given by Kant to transcendental epistemology has been challenged by Relativity and Quantum Physics. However, the true challenge is not to force modern physics into a rigidly construed static version of Kant’s philosophy, but to provide Kant’s method with flexibility and generality. In this book, the top specialists of the field pin down the methodological core of transcendental epistemology that must be used in order to throw light on the foundations of modern physics. First, the basic tools Kant used for his transcendental reading of Newtonian Mechanics are examined, and then early transcendental approaches of Relativistic and Quantum Physics are revisited. Transcendental procedures are also applied to contemporary physics, and this renewed transcendental interpretation is finally compared with structural realism and constructive empiricism. The book will be of interest to scientists, historians and philosophers who are involved in the foundational problems of modern physics.
Author : Hans Reichenbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity written by Hans Reichenbach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Shaffer
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0812696603
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Download or read book What Place for the a Priori? written by Michael J. Shaffer and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priori knowledge is alleged to be knowledge whose justification requires no appeal to experience. The issue of whether or not there is a priori knowledge so defined has been a central topic of debate in philosophy since its very beginning. Plato and Aristotle differed on this matter in antiquity, and so did the rationalists and empiricists in early modernity. The issue remains a bone of contention to this day.
Author : Chiara Russo Krauss
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031364988
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Philosophers and Einstein's Relativity written by Chiara Russo Krauss and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity. The essays explore the reception and interpretation of Einstein’s ideas by some of the most important philosophical schools of the time, such as logical positivism (Reichenbach), neo-Kantianism (Cassirer, Natorp), critical realism (Sellars), and radical empiricism (Mach). The book is aimed at physicists and historians of science researching the epistemological implications of the theory of relativity, as well as to scholars in philosophy interested in understanding how leading philosophical figures of the early twentieth century reacted to the relativistic revolution.
Author : Thomas Uebel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317307631
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism written by Thomas Uebel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logical empiricism is a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 30s in Central Europe and in the 1940s and 50s in the United States. With its stated ambition to comprehend the revolutionary advances in the empirical and formal sciences of their day and to confront anti-modernist challenges to scientific reason itself, logical empiricism was never uncontroversial. Uniting key thinkers who often disagreed with one another but shared the aim to conceive of philosophy as part of the scientific enterprise, it left a rich and varied legacy that has only begun to be explored relatively recently. The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism is an outstanding reference source to this challenging subject area, and the first collection of its kind. Comprising 41 chapters written by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the Handbook is organized into four clear parts: The Cultural, Scientific and Philosophical Context and the Development of Logical Empiricism Characteristic Theses of and Specific Issues in Logical Empiricism Relations to Philosophical Contemporaries Leading Post-Positivist Criticisms and Legacy Essential reading for students and researchers in the history of twentieth-century philosophy, especially the history of analytical philosophy and the history of philosophy of science, the Handbook will also be of interest to those working in related areas of philosophy influenced by this important movement, including metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.
Author : Alberto Coffa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521447072
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap written by Alberto Coffa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Albert Coffa traces the roots of logical positivism in a semantic tradition that arose in opposition to Kant's theory that a priori knowledge is based on pure intuition.
Author : Francesca Biagioli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319317792
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer written by Francesca Biagioli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Kant famously characterized space and time as a priori forms of intuitions, which lie at the foundation of mathematical knowledge. The success of his philosophical account of space was due not least to the fact that Euclidean geometry was widely considered to be a model of certainty at his time. However, such later scientific developments as non-Euclidean geometries and Einstein’s general theory of relativity called into question the certainty of Euclidean geometry and posed the problem of reconsidering space as an open question for empirical research. The transformation of the concept of space from a source of knowledge to an object of research can be traced back to a tradition, which includes such mathematicians as Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, Richard Dedekind, Felix Klein, and Henri Poincaré, and which finds one of its clearest expressions in Hermann von Helmholtz’s epistemological works. Although Helmholtz formulated compelling objections to Kant, the author reconsiders different strategies for a philosophical account of the same transformation from a neo-Kantian perspective, and especially Hermann Cohen’s account of the aprioricity of mathematics in terms of applicability and Ernst Cassirer’s reformulation of the a priori of space in terms of a system of hypotheses. This book is ideal for students, scholars and researchers who wish to broaden their knowledge of non-Euclidean geometry or neo-Kantianism.
Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855128
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Foundations of Space-Time Theories written by Michael Friedman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, explores the conceptual foundations of Einstein's theory of relativity: the fascinating, yet tangled, web of philosophical, mathematical, and physical ideas that is the source of the theory's enduring philosophical interest. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : James Robert Brown
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441142002
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers written by James Robert Brown and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the key figures in the Philosophy of Science from Plato and Aristotle through to Popper, Puttnam and Cartwright.
Author : Clarence Irving Lewis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486265643
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Mind and the World-order written by Clarence Irving Lewis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1956-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory of "conceptual pragmatism" takes into account both modern philosophical thought and modern mathematics. Stimulating discussions of metaphysics, a priori, philosophic method, much more.
Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140865
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science written by Rudolf Carnap and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulating, thought-provoking text by one of the 20th century's most creative philosophers makes accessible such topics as probability, measurement and quantitative language, causality and determinism, theoretical laws and concepts, more.
Author : Thomas Nickles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796484
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Thomas Kuhn written by Thomas Nickles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Hanoch Gutfreund
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691174636
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Formative Years of Relativity written by Hanoch Gutfreund and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity offered an overview and explanation of the then new and controversial theory of relativity. The work would go on to become a monumental classic, printed in numerous editions and translations worldwide. Now, The Formative Years of Relativity introduces Einstein’s masterpiece to new audiences. This beautiful volume contains Einstein’s insightful text, accompanied by important historical materials and commentary looking at the origins and development of general relativity. Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn provide fresh, original perspectives, placing Einstein’s achievements into a broader context for all readers. In this book, Gutfreund and Renn tell the rich story behind the early reception, spread, and consequences of Einstein’s ideas during the formative years of general relativity in the late 1910s and 1920s. They show that relativity’s meaning changed radically throughout the nascent years of its development, and they describe in detail the transformation of Einstein’s work from the esoteric pursuit of one individual communicating with a handful of colleagues into the preoccupation of a growing community of physicists, astronomers, mathematicians, and philosophers. This handsome edition quotes extensively from Einstein’s correspondence and reproduces historical documents such as newspaper articles and letters. Inserts are featured in the main text giving concise explanations of basic concepts, and short biographical notes and photographs of some of Einstein’s contemporaries are included. The first-ever English translations of two of Einstein’s popular Princeton lectures are featured at the book’s end.
