Heller, Michael

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

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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


Traduit du polonais

978-3-642-17704-0 3-642-17704-2

Philosophy of nature Science / Philosophy

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