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Philosophy in science : an historical introduction / Michael Heller. Appendices and biogr. notes by Małgorzata Szczerbińska-Polak. Transl. by Kenneth W. Kemp & Zuzanna Maślanka Kieroń

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookPublisher number: 80013648Language: English Publisher: Berlin ; Heidelberg [u.a.] : Springer, 2011Description: XI, 167 S. : graph. Darst ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 3642177042
  • 9783642177040
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: 9783642177057 | Online-Ausg.: Philosophy in Science | Erscheint auch als: Philosophy in Science. Online-Ausgabe Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. Online-Ressource (XI, 167p, digital)DDC classification:
  • 113
  • 100
RVK: RVK: CC 3100LOC classification:
  • BD581
Contents:
Summary: The first task of the philosophy of nature -- The problem of elementarity -- The philosophical myth of creation : the Platonic philosophy of nature -- Aristotle's Physics -- Aristotle's method of cosmological speculation -- Descartes' mechanism -- Isaac Newton and the mathematical principles of natural philosophy -- The world of Leibniz : the best of all possible worlds -- Immanuel Kant : the a priori conditions of the sciences -- The romantic philosophy of nature -- The cosmology of Whitehead: the universe as process -- Popper's open universe -- Science as philosophy -- Problems and methods of the philosophy of natureCall number: Grundsignatur: 2011 A 5537PPN: PPN: 640078338
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Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd phil 6 Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) 2011 A 5537 Available 50772156090
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