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Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Who Needs Aristotle?
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    Chapter 2 Naive Realism and Naive Antirealism
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    Chapter 3 Against Postmodernism and the “New” Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche’s Image of Science in the Light of Art
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    Chapter 4 On the Validity of von Neumann’s Theorem
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    Chapter 5 Explaining Scientific Revolutions
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    Chapter 6 Micro- and Macro-Hermeneutics of Science
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    Chapter 7 The Redundancy of Spacetime: Special Relativity as a Grammar and the Strangeness of ‘c’
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    Chapter 8 Context, Hermeneutics, and Ontology in the Experimental Sciences
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    Chapter 9 Cognitive Dynamics and the Development of Science
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    Chapter 10 Methodical Constructivism
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    Chapter 11 Hermeneutic vs. Empiricist Philosophy of Science
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    Chapter 12 Must the Explanans be True?
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    Chapter 13 Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI and Scientific Methodology
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    Chapter 14 Since Indeterminacy: The New Picture of the Physical World at the End of Modernity
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    Chapter 15 The Dynamics of Science
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    Chapter 16 The Law of Logarithmic Returns and Its Implications
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    Chapter 17 The Human Right to Know and the Reality of Knowledge
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    Chapter 18 Kuhn’s Ontological Relativism
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    Chapter 19 The Problem of Reduction in the Theory of Special Relativity
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    Chapter 20 Symmetries and Explanations: The Lessons of Elementary Particle Physics
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    Chapter 21 Cognition as a System
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    Chapter 22 System Approach to the Problem of the Classification of Sciences and Scientific Researches
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Chapter title
Context, Hermeneutics, and Ontology in the Experimental Sciences
Chapter number 8
Book title
Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1997
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-5788-9_8
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-106443-9, 978-9-40-115788-9
Authors

Patrick A. Heelan, Heelan, Patrick A.