The humanistic background of science /
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[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I
- ch. 1 Introduction: Science, Facts, and Values
- 1. Science and Poetry
- 2. Charges against the Monopoly of Science
- 3. Twentieth-Century Science and Philosophy
- 4. "Real World" Is Not Describable
- 5. Humanities Are Trailing behind the Natural Sciences
- 6. "Special Sciences" Don't Exhaust "Science"
- 7. Semantic and Pragmatic Components of Science
- 8. Philosophical Schools Woo the Support of Science
- 9. Principles of Science and Human "Values"
- ch. 2 Longing for a Humanization of Science
- 1. Dissatisfaction with Nineteenth-Century Science
- 2. Emerson on the Changing Role of Science
- 3. Lord Herbert Samuel for Modern Science
- 4. Dehumanization of Science
- 5. Soviet Philosophy and Modern Science
- 6. Birth of Modern Science Was the Birth of Dissatisfaction
- 7. Bacon on the Copernican System
- 8. How Science Has Been "Humanized"
- 9. Analogies as Humanizing Elements
- 10. "Humanization," "Metaphysics" and the "Inner Eye"
- 11. Metaphysics, Common Sense, and the Inner Eye
- 12. Nature of Metaphysical Statements
- 13. Inner Eye and Intuition
- ch. 3 Metaphysical Interpretations of Science
- 1. Founder of Pragmatism on Science and Philosophy
- 2. Peirce's Conception of Philosophy
- 3. Metaphysics Nearer to Common Sense than Science
- 4. Purpose of Metaphysical Interpretation
- 5. Metaphysics as Science
- 6. Laws of Physics and Their Metaphysical Interpretation
- 7. How Scientists Have Interpreted Their Own Theories
- ch. 4 Sociology of Metaphysical Interpretations
- 1. Can Science Be "Purged" of Philosophy?
- 2. Science and Chance Philosophies
- 3. Attitudes of Scientists and Authorities
- 4. Battle of Worldviews
- 5. Purging Physics and Metaphysics
- 6. Science and Reality
- 7. Max Planck and the Real World
- 8. Meanings and Examples of "Real"
- 9. Sociological Role of "Reality"
- 10. "Reality" in Soviet Philosophy
- ch. 5 Philosophy of Science and Political Ideology
- 1. Sociology of Knowledge
- 2. General Sense of Ideology
- 3. Mannheim, Ideology, and Sociology of Knowledge
- 4. Forms of Social Influence
- 5. Facts and Interpretation
- 6. Sociology of Science
- 7. Social Class and Social Situation
- 8. Solution to the Puzzle
- ch. 6 Sociology of Science and the Search for a Democratic Metaphysics
- 1. Validation and Theory Building
- 2. Science as a Compromise between Technology and Political Philosophy
- 3. Scientific Conscience
- 4. Philosophical Interpretations and Democracy
- 5. Physical and the Socio-cosmic Universe
- Part II
- ch. 7 Scholastic Philosophy and Thomism
- 1. Meanings of Rational and Intelligible
- 2. Role of Philosophical Schools
- 3. Science and "Thomism"
- 4. Thomistic Theory of Matter
- 5. Social Significance of Thomistic Philosophy
- 6. On Angels and Genuine Laws
- 7. Thomism and Physical Laws
- 8. Analogical and Scientific Thinking
- ch. 8 Physical Universe as a Symbol
- 1. Moral Universe
- 2. Physical Science in the Bible
- 3. Physical Universe and Human Behavior
- 4. Scholastic "Scientism" and Modern "Positivism"
- 5. Shifting the Problem to Revelation
- 6. Realism and Nominalism
- 7. Situation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- ch. 9 Union, Divorce, and Reunion between Science and Philosophy
- 1. Science and Philosophy in the British and Soviet Encyclopedias
- 2. "Truce" through a Naturalization of Science
- 3. Attempts at a Reunion by a Positive Philosophy
- 4. Role of "Sociology" in Positive Philosophy
- 5. "Truth" of General Principles in Positive Philosophy
- 6. Relative Truth of Theories
- 7. Positive Philosophy and Marginal Metaphysics
- 8. Science and Philosophy after the Reunion
- 9. Name "Philosophy" as a Challenge
- ch. 10 Science, Democracy, and the New Wave of Positivism
- 1. Science after the French Revolution
- 2. Positivism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (Stallo)
- 3. Positivism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (Mach)
- 4. Reception of Mach and Stallo?
- 5. Conventionalism (Poincare, Le Roy)
- 6. Abel Rey and the Bankruptcy of Science
- 7. Duhem's Accommodation of Positivism and Metaphysics
- ch. 11 Vienna Circle: Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, and Otto Neurath
- 1. Turning Point in Positivism
- 2. Logical Positivism and the Theory of Correspondence
- 3. Philosophy as Activity and the Unified Picture
- 4. Cross-connections among the Sciences
- 5. Changes in the Science of Meaning
- 6. Vienna Circle and the Pragmatics of Metaphysics
- 7. Cognitive Significance and Scientific Value
- ch. 12 Pragmatism
- 1. Pragmatism (William James, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey)
- 2. Peirce's Pragmatism and Positivism
- 3. James's Pragmatism and Metaphysics
- 4. Dewey and Political Interpretations of Science
- 5. New Development: Scientific Empiricism
- 6. Meaning and Significance of Bridgman's Operationalism
- 7. Nagel's Contextualistic Naturalism
- ch. 13 Mechanistic and Dialectical Materialism
- 1. Mechanistic Materialism
- 2. La Mettrie's Materialism
- 3. Purposiveness in Nature
- 4. Materialism Refuted?
- 5. Materialism versus Positivism
- 6. Soviet Attacks against Positivism
- 7. Conversion of Mass and "Star-Spangled" Operationalism
- ch. 14 Laws and Politics of Dialectical Materialism
- 1. Dialectical versus Mechanistic Materialism
- 2. Diamat and Philosophy
- 3. Diamat and Realism
- 4. Dialectical Laws
- 5. Quantitative and Qualitative Changes
- 6. Social Change and Natural Science
- Conclusion: Einstein's Philosophy of Science
- 1. Positivistic Basis
- 2. Metaphysical Basis
- 3. Analogical-Religious Basis.