书目名称 | The Scientist‘s Atom and the Philosopher‘s Stone |
副标题 | How Science Succeede |
编辑 | Alan Chalmers |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/920/919370/919370.mp4 |
概述 | The only book that covers the history of atomism in a scholarly way from Democritus to the twentieth century.Gives substance to debates about the character of scientific knowledge through a sustained |
丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | .Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. This is not history for its own sake. By critically reflecting on the various versions of atomic theories of the past the author is able to grapple with the question of what sets scientific knowledge apart from other kinds of knowledge, philosophical knowledge in particular. He thereby engages historically with issues concerning the nature and status of scientific knowledge that were dealt with in a more abstract way in his What Is This Thing Called Science?, a book that has been a standard text in philosophy of science for three decades and which is available in nineteen languages. Speculations about the fundamental structure of matter from Democritus to the seventeenth-century mechanical philosophers and beyond are construed as categorically distinct from atomictheories amenable to experimental investigation and support and as contributing little to the latter from a historical point of view. The thesis will provoke historians and philosophers of science alike |
出版日期 | Book 2009 |
关键词 | Atomism; Empirical evidence; Experiment; Matter theory; Mechanical philosophy; Parmenides; Philosophy of S |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2362-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-0533-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-2362-9Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 |
issn_series | 0068-0346 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |