scholarly journals TOWARDS A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Problemata ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 270-281
Author(s):  
Marcos Amatucci
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
History Of

Does Popper Explain Historical Explanation?

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 225-240
Author(s):  
Kenneth Minogue
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

It is one of Karl Popper's great distinctions that he has an intense—some would say too intense—awareness of the history of philosophy within which he works. He knows not only its patterns, but also its comedies, and sometimes he plays rhetorically against their grain. He knows, for example, that the drive to consistency tends to turn philosophy into compositions of related doctrines, each seeming to involve the others. Religious belief, for example, tends to go with idealism and free will, religious scepticism with materialism and determinism. Popper does not believe in a religion, was for long some kind of a socialist, and takes his bearings from the philosophy of science. Aha! it seems we have located him. Here is a positivist, a materialist, probably a determinist. But of course he denies he is any of these things. Again, like many modern thinkers, he wants to extend scientific method not only to the social sciences but also to history. So far so familiar, until we discover that he regards nature as no less ‘cloudy’ than human societies.

Philosophy for technical specialties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Kanke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Educational Standards ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Educational

The textbook is a sequential course in philosophy. The questions of the philosophy of science and the history of philosophy, ontology, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics are presented. The course is based on the achievements of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and other major philosophical trends of our time. The theory of conceptual transduction is used. Special attention is paid to the connection of philosophy with the technical sciences. The course is carefully verified in didactic terms. Each paragraph ends with conclusions. The textbook includes questions and tasks, tests, references, and recommendations to students. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students of higher educational institutions, especially future technical specialists. It is of interest to a wide range of readers.

scholarly journals Sir Karl Raimund Popper, C. H., F. B. A. 28 July 1902—17 September 1994.

1997 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 369-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Miller
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Unstable Equilibrium ◽  
Mathematical Work ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Contemporary Philosopher ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secure Place

Karl Raimund Popper, the philosopher and methodologist of science, died on 17 September 1994 at the age of 92 years. Locke was a Fellow of the Royal Society, of course, and some other early Fellows, Boyle in particular, have a secure place in the history of philosophy. Whewell, an intellectual forerunner of Popper's (Medawar 1967), was elected in 1820 when the Royal Society was, according to a contemporary philosopher, ‘in a state of unstable equilibrium’; he was a mere 26, a lecturer in mathematics, and was to occupy the chair of mineralogy at Cambridge for some years before writing his exceptional studies in the history and philosophy of science. Whitehead and Russell were elected as Fellows for their mathematical work, as have been one or two more recently elected logicians. Popper is the only philosopher in modern times to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society primarily in recognition of his philosophical achievement.

Ontology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjan Chakravartty
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scientific Ontology

This chapter considers the relationship between scientific and philosophical approaches to ontology, with the aim of clarifying what it means to engage in the project of scientific ontology. It introduces the most influential conceptions of ontology to emerge in the history of philosophy of science. These include deflationary views, which redescribe talk of ontology in terms of other things, as well as views which, conversely, take ontology at face value as an inquiry seeking knowledge of what there is in the world—a world whose existence is independent of the thoughts one may have concerning it. It is argued that the sciences do not yield ontologies until and unless they are interpreted, which requires some recourse to philosophical thinking, and that case studies of science cannot by themselves settle disputes about how these interpretations should go.

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