Bulgarian studies in the philosophy of science / edited by Dimitri Ginev.

This volume attempts to provide a new articulation of issues surrounding scientific realism, scientific rationality, the epistemology of non-classical physics, the type of revolutionary changes in the development of science, the naturalization of epistemology within frameworks of cognitive science a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Ginev, Dimitŭr
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2003]
Series:Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 236.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Investigations in the General Philosophy of Science. The Danger of Catching Nature in Contradiction. Scientific Rationality, Decision and Choice. The Information Technology Revolution: A New, Techno-Economic Paradigm. Are Bifurcations of Human Knowledge Possible?- Part II: Philosophy of Physics. The Proliferation and Synthesis of Physical Theories. On Human Agency in Physics
  • Part III: Philosophy and Logic. Leibniz's Logical Systems: A Reconstruction. The Logic Between Two Centuries
  • Part IV: Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science. Idealized Cognitive Models and Other Mental Representations. Philosophy of Science Meets Cognitive Science: The Categorization Debate. Three Words: Hypertext and Argumentation Readings of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  • Part V: Philosophy of Science and the Continental Ideas. On Kant's Conception of Space and Time. How to Be Simultaneously an Antiessentialist and a Defender of Science's Cognitive Specificity
  • Notes on Contributors.