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The Material Realization of Science [electronic resource] : From Habermas to Experimentation and Referential Realism / by Hans Radder.

By: Radder, Hans [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science: 294Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XIX, 205p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400741072.Subject(s): Philosophy (General) | Science (General) | Physics | Philosophy | Philosophy | Science, general | Physics, generalDDC classification: 10 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Preface to the Revised English Edition -- Preface to the First English Edition -- Preface to the Dutch Edition -- Introduction -- PART I   HABERMAS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 1 Habermas’s Philosophy of the Natural Sciences -- 2 Analysis and Critique -- PART II   EXPERIMENTATION AND REFERENTIAL REALISM -- 3 Experimentation in the Natural Sciences -- 4 Verifiability and Reference, Relativism and Realism -- 5 Specification and Application: Two Case Studies from the History and Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Conclusion -- References -- POSTSCRIPT 2012 -- References to the Postscript -- Index.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: The book addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and it proposes a detailed account of a referential realism. This account exploits several fruitful ideas of Jürgen Habermas, it builds on an analysis of scientific experimentation, and it is developed through an in-depth case study of the history of quantum mechanics. The Revised edition, with a new postscript   situates the book within the recent debates on the issues under discussion.
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Preface to the Revised English Edition -- Preface to the First English Edition -- Preface to the Dutch Edition -- Introduction -- PART I   HABERMAS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 1 Habermas’s Philosophy of the Natural Sciences -- 2 Analysis and Critique -- PART II   EXPERIMENTATION AND REFERENTIAL REALISM -- 3 Experimentation in the Natural Sciences -- 4 Verifiability and Reference, Relativism and Realism -- 5 Specification and Application: Two Case Studies from the History and Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics Conclusion -- References -- POSTSCRIPT 2012 -- References to the Postscript -- Index.

The book addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and it proposes a detailed account of a referential realism. This account exploits several fruitful ideas of Jürgen Habermas, it builds on an analysis of scientific experimentation, and it is developed through an in-depth case study of the history of quantum mechanics. The Revised edition, with a new postscript   situates the book within the recent debates on the issues under discussion.

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