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Zusatztext Poincare’s Science and Hypothesis offers one of the deepest and yet most accessible investigations into the nature of science, constituting one of the most significant works in philosophy of science of the 20th century. This excellent new translation and introduction to Poincare’s philosophy offers an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the scientific method and the nature of scientific knowledge. Informationen zum Autor Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science. David J. Stump is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, USA. Melanie Frappier is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of King's College, Canada. David J. Stump is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, USA. Melanie Frappier is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of King's College, Canada. Vorwort A new and complete translation of Henri Poincare’s great work on space time conventionalism and the relation of mathematics and science. Zusammenfassung Science and Hypothesis is a classic text in history and philosophy of science. Widely popular since its original publication in 1902, this first new translation of the work in over a century features unpublished material missing from earlier editions. Addressing errors introduced by Greenstreet and Halsted in their early 20th-century translations, it incorporates all the changes, corrections and additions Poincaré made over the years. Taking care to update the writing for a modern audience, Poincaré’s ideas and arguments on the role of hypotheses in mathematics and in science become clearer and closer to his original meaning, while David J. Stump’s introduction gives fresh insights into Poincaré’s philosophy of science. By approaching Science and Hypothesis from a contemporary perspective, it presents a better understanding of Poincare’s hierarchy of the sciences, with arithmetic as the foundation, geometry as the science of space, then mechanics and the rest of physics. For philosophers of science and scientists working on problems of space, time and relativity, this is a much needed translation of a ground-breaking work which demonstrates why Poincaré is still relevant today. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction by David J. StumpOrigin of the parts of the bookAuthor’s Preface Part I: Number and Magnitude 2. On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning3. Mathematical Magnitude and Experiment Part II: Space 4. Non-Euclidean Geometries5. Space and Geometry6. Experiment and Geometry Part III: Force 7. Classical Mechanics8. Relative and Absolute Motion9. Energy and Thermo-Dynamics Part IV: Nature 10. Hypotheses in Physics11. The Theories of Modern Physics12. The Calculus of Probabilities13. Optics and Electricity14. XIII Electro-Dynamics15. The End of MatterIndex...
