E.A. Burtt, Historian and Philosopher: A Study of the author of The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science - Brossura

Villemaire, D.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9401713324 ISBN 13: 9789401713320

Casa editrice: Springer, 2014

Riassunto

Preface. Introduction. 1. Columbia University in the 1920s: The Young Radical Philosophers. 2. The Idealists: James Harvey and the Genetic Method of History, John Dewey and Reflective Thinking. 3. The Realists who Sharpened the Edges of Burtt's Ideas. 4. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science. 5. The Chicago School of Pragmatism. 6. Religious Humanism. 7. Burtt's New Philosophy of Mind. 8. The Genesis of Hypothesis and The Metaphysics of Empirical Theory. 9. Burtt's Newton and the Debate over the Rationality of Early Modern Science. 10. What Happened to the Metaphysical Foundations and Burtt's Interest in the History of Science. 11. Burtt's Philosophy After 1935. 12. A return to the Ideas in The Metaphysical Foundations. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9401713324
• ISBN 13: 9789401713320
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Lingua: Inglese
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile