Philosophy in science : an historical introduction / Michael Heller. Appendices and biogr. notes by Małgorzata Szczerbińska-Polak. Transl. by Kenneth W. Kemp & Zuzanna Maślanka Kieroń
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookPublisher number: 80013648Language: English Publisher: Berlin ; Heidelberg [u.a.] : Springer, 2011Description: XI, 167 S. : graph. Darst ; 25 cmISBN:- 3642177042
- 9783642177040
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- 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
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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Freihandbestand ausleihbar | Bibliothek Campus Süd | phil 6 | Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) | 2011 A 5537 | Available | 50772156090 |
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