书目名称 | Reason and the Search for Knowledge | 副标题 | Investigations in th | 编辑 | Dudley Shapere | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | An impressive characteristic of Dudley Shapere‘s studies in the philosophy of the sciences has been his dogged reasonableness. He sorts things out, with logical care and mastery of the materials, and with an epistemological curiosity for the historical happenings which is both critical and respectful. Science changes, and the philosopher had better not link philosophical standards too tightly to either the latest orthodox or the provocative up start in scientific fashions; and yet, as critic, the philosopher must not only master the sciences but also explicate their meanings, not those of a cognitive never-never land. Neither dreamer nor pedant, Professor Shapere has been able to practice the modern empiricist‘s exercises with the sober and stimulat ing results shown in this volume: he sees that he can be faithful to philosoph ical analysis, engage in the boldest ‘rational reconstruction‘ of theories and experimental measurements, and faithful too, empirically faithful we may say, to both the direct super-highways and the winding pathways of conceptual evolutions and metaphysical revolutions. Not least, Shapere listens! To Einstein and Calileo of course, but to the workings of t | 出版日期 | Book 1984 | 关键词 | Interpretation; concept; evolution; history; history of literature; interpret; issue; knowledge; philosophy; | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9731-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-277-1641-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-010-9731-4Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 | issn_series | 0068-0346 | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1984 |
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