What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays

List of contents

I / Philosophy of Science.- I. A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning.- II. On Elementary Particle Theory.- III. Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies.- IV. Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy.- II / History of Science.- V. Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics.- VI. The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics.- III / General Philosophy.- VII. On Being in Two Places at Once.- VIII. Copernicus' Rôle in Kant's Revolution.- IX. It's Actual, so It's Possible.- X. On Having the Same Visual Experiences.- XI. Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments.- IV / Logic.- XII. Imagining the Impossible.- XIII. On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics.- XIV. Good Inductive Reasons.- XV. A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity.- XVI. The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science.- XVII. The Idea of a Logic of Discovery.- V / Religion.- XVIII. The Agnostic's Dilemma.- XIX. What I Don't Believe.- VI / The Theory Of Flight.- Introduction, by Edward MacKinnon, S.J..- XX. Lecture One: The Discovery of Air.- XXI. Lecture Two: The Shape of An Idea.- XXII. Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape.

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• Authors: N R Hanson, N. R. Hanson, N.R. Hanson, Norwood Russell Hanson
• Assisted by: Stephe Toulmin (Editor), Stephen Toulmin (Editor), Woolf (Editor), Woolf (Editor), H. Woolf (Editor), Harry Woolf (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9789027701916
• ISBN: 978-90-277-0191-6
• No. of pages: 390
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 243 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 753 g
• Illustrations: XII, 390 p.
• Series: Synthese Library; Synthese Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works