Whitehead's Organic Philosophy of Science
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Introduction
Part One. The Development of Whitehead's Thought
Chapter I. Geometry
Section 1. The thesis of the first period
Section 2. The thesis of the second period
Section 3. The thesis of the third period
Section 4. The implications of Whitehead's metaphysics for the ontological status of geometrical entities
Chapter II. Number
Section 5. The thesis of the first period
Section 6. The implications of Whitehead's metaphysics for the ontological status of number
Part Two. Foundational Concepts for the Philosophy of Organism
Chapter III. Organism and Environment
Section 7. Organic mechanism
Section 8. Organism
Section 9. Environment
Chapter IV. The Order of Nature
Section 10. The problem of societies
Section 11. A model for understanding societies
Section 12. The order of nature
Chapter V. Foundational Concepts and Evolution
Section 13. The incoherence of materialism
Section 14. The coherence of organism
Part Three. Metaphysics and a Logic of Science
Chapter VI. Contemporary Schools of Thought in the Philosophy of Science in the English-speaking World
Section 15. Formalism and historical relativism
Chapter VII. Laws
Section 16. Laws are true statements of universal(conditional) form
Section 17. Laws are formal statements (neither true nor false) in accordance with which we draw inferences about phenomena
Section 18. Laws are statements about dominant orders of general environments
Chapter VIII. Induction
Section 19. The logic of science as deductive logic
Section 20. Theory-ladenness and induction
Section 21. "Valid inductive inference"
Section 22. Environment and the justification of "valid inductive inference"
Chapter IX. Explanation
Section 23. The orthodox empiricist models of explanation
Section 24. Explanation as an activity of scientists
Section 25. Organism and explanation—metaphysical and scientific
Section 26. Metaphor, analogy, and explanation
Section 27. Environment, metaphor, and explanation
Chapter X. Conceptual Change
Section 28. Explanation and conceptual change
Section 29. Paradigms, meaning variance, and scientific revolutions
Section 30. The organic categories for the structure of scientific revolutions
Section 31. Revolutionary conceptual change
Section 32. Metaphor and conceptual change
Section 33. Theory choice: realism vs. instrumentalism
Chapter XI. Reduction
Section 34. Theoretical reduction
Section 35. Paradigms and reduction
Section 36. The unity of nature: mechanism vs. organicism
Section 37. The unity of nature: teleological explanation
Notes
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.1979 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
| ISBN-10 | 0-87395-387-8 / 0873953878 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-87395-387-0 / 9780873953870 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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