Kniha obsahuje podrobné synopse kapitol, zde uvádím pouze názvy kapitol a některých sekcí:
1. The Philosophy of Science
- logic; epistemology; metaphysics; the relation between logic and epistemology; the relation between logic and metaphysics; the relation between epistemology and metaphysics; the world as it is and as it is perceived; thinking and experimenting; the involvement of theories in description; examination of the idea that theories are not descriptive, concept.
2. The Forms of Reasoning in Science
- examples of reasoning from the history of science (Mendel, Kepler); Mill's Canons; inductivism; objections to inductivism; Popper's doctrine of falsifiability; critique of falsificationism; positivism.
- examples of science (chemical atoms, light rays, heat, mechanical force, force, the planetary hypotheses); complete phenomenalism (Patricius, Berkeley, Brodie, Mach, Eddington, etc.); hypotheses as fictions; scepticism about hypotheses; the examples and the philosophical theories compared; realism; realism and phenomenalism are poles in the epistemology of science.
- materials; individuals (Parmenidian, Heraclitean, Aristotelian); qualities; relation (space, time, causality); three main systems: Aristotelian, Corpuscularian, Power/Field/Plenum.
- the principle of structural explanation (microexplanation - additivity and emergence, macroexplanation); quantitative items replace qualitative; differentiation of instruments (self-measurers and non-self-measurerers); philosophical background to the corpuscularian philosophy.
6. Explanation
- analogies and models
7. Science and Society
- science in society; science as social activity
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Literatura (použitá)
- HARRÉ, Rom. The Philosophies of Science: An Introductory Survey, Oxford: OUP 1972/1984.
- BURTT, E.A. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science. 1964.
- BOSCOVICH, Ruggero A theory of natural philosophy
- HARRÉ, Rom. The Principles of Scentific Thinking. 1970
- HARRÉ, Rom and MADDEN. Causal powers: a theory of natural necessity. 1975.
- KNIGHT, David. Atoms and Elements. London 1967.
- WALLACE, William A. The Scientific Methodology of Theodoric of Freiberg, 1959
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