Philosophy in science an historical introduction / [Texte imprimé] :
Michael Heller ; appendices and biographical notes by Malgorzata Szczerbinska-Polak ; translated by Kenneth W. Kemp & Zuzanna Maslanka Kieron
- Heidelberg ; Dordrecht ; London [etc.] : Springer, cop. 2011
- 1 vol. (XI-167 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Titre original non-renseigné Cette traduction est basée sur le 2e édition de cet ouvrage
Notes bibliogr.
The first task of the philosophy of nature -- The problem of elementarity -- The philosophical myth of creation : the Platonic philosophy of nature -- Aristotle's Physics -- Aristotle's method of cosmological speculation -- Descartes' mechanism -- Isaac Newton and the mathematical principles of natural philosophy -- The world of Leibniz : the best of all possible worlds -- Immanuel Kant : the a priori conditions of the sciences -- The romantic philosophy of nature -- The cosmology of Whitehead: the universe as process -- Popper's open universe -- Science as philosophy -- Problems and methods of the philosophy of nature