Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

by: Nicolacopoulos, P.

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Greek studies in the philosophy and history of science
Author:Pantelis Nicolacopoulos

Contents:
I: Science Classical Greece.- 1. The Role of Observation in Plato?s Conception of Astronomy.- 2. The Unity of Scientific Inquiry and Categorial Theory in Aristotle.- 3. Knowledge and Belief in Plato?s Republic.- 4. Some Thoughts on Explanation in Ancient Philosophy.- 5. Alcmeon?s and Hippocrates?s Concept of Aetia.- 6. Experience and Causal Explanation in Medical Empiricism.- 7. Soul as Attunement: An Analogy or a Model?.- 8. The Hypotheses of Mathematics in Plato?s Republic and His Contribution to the Axiomatization of Geometry.- 9. Rediscovering Some Stoic Arguments.- 10. Models of Change: A Common Ground for Ancient Greek Philosophy and Modern Science.- 11. Criteria Concerning the Birth of a New Science: The Case of Greek Astronomy.- II: Science and the Modern Greek Enlightenment.- 12. The Idea of Science in the Modern Greek Enlightenment.- 13. The History of the Theory of Natural Sciences: A Paradigm.- III: Science Studies.- 14. Evolutionary Epistemology on Universals as Innate Classificatory Devices.- 15. The Development of Freudian Theory: The Role of the ?Centre? and the ?Excentric? in Theory Production and Diffusion.- 16. Law and Economics: Methodological Problems in Their Interdisciplinary Cooperation.- IV: Studies of Physics.- 17. From Gases and Liquids to Fluids: The Formation of New Concepts During the Development of Theories of Liquids.- 18. A Matter of Order: A Controversy between Heisenberg and London.- 19. Once Again on the Meaning of Physical Concepts.- 20. Locality: A New Enigma for Physics.- V: Philosophical Studies.- 21. Schlick?s Epistemology and Its Contribution to Modern Empiricism.- 22. On Theoretical Terms.- 23. Leibniz on Density and Sequential or Cauchy Completeness.- 24. Frege: Theory of Meaning or Philosophy of Science?.- 25. The Plato-Wittgenstein Route to the Pragmatics of Falsification.- 26. Wittgenstein, Rationality and Relativism.- Notes on the Authors.

Series:
Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 121

xvii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

by: Nicolacopoulos, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780792307174 / 978-0-7923-0717-4
• ISBN-03: 0792307178 / 0-7923-0717-8
• Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1990

Price: 118,00 EURO

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