Modern Philosophy of Science.

1960 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
Wesley C. Salmon ◽  
Hans Reichenbach ◽  
Maria Reichenbach ◽  
Rudolf Carnap
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science

The Relevance of Descartes's Philosophy for Modern Philosophy of Science

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Buchdahl
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Philosophy Of Physics ◽  
World Picture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Snell’S Law ◽  
Snell's Law ◽  
The Ideal

SummaryI. Reputed shortcomings of Descartes as philosopher of science.II ‘Knowledge’ in mathematics and in physics. The ‘ontological’ postulates of Descartes's philosophy and philosophy of physics.III. The ‘foundations of dynamics’: ‘Newton's First Law of Motion’ and its status.IV. Descartes's conception of ‘hypothesis’: the competing claims of the ideal of the a priori in physics and the conception of retroductive inference. (The status of the mechanistic world picture.)V. Descartes's notion of ‘analysis’. The distinction between ‘procedure’ and ‘inference’. The notion of ‘induction’ and ‘understanding through models’: ‘Snell's Law of Refraction’.

scholarly journals Modern Philosophy of Science

Nature ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 186 (4724) ◽  
pp. 503-504
Author(s):  
HERBERT DINGLE
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science

scholarly journals Plato and modern natural sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Kandic
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Model ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Biological Concepts ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Genuine Knowledge ◽  
Science Experience

There are almost irreconcilable differences between Plato?s notion of science (episteme) and the modern notion, but also certain similarities. In the late dialogues such as The Theaetetus, The Philebus, and The Timaeus, Plato redefines his own notion of knowledge developed in The Republic to some extent. Genuine knowledge does not refer solely to the unchangeable aspects of reality. Plato?s characterization of cosmology as an eikos logos (?likely story?) in The Timaeus is an anticipation of the concept of falsifiability that dominates modern philosophy of science. Experience and observation, as well as mathematical, psychological and biological concepts, occupy a significant, indispensable place within the structure of Timaeus? cosmological model.

scholarly journals John Dewey's theory of inquiry. Quantum physics, ecology and the myth of the scientific method

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-154
Author(s):  
Joaquín Fernández Mateo
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Methodological Pluralism ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Theory Of Inquiry

The modern philosophy of science has not succeeded in defining conclusively what the scientific method consists in. On the contrary, scientific practice seems to consist in a methodological pluralism, a definition that connects with essential fragments of John Dewey's Logic, the Theory of Inquiry. For Dewey, even the forms of logic emerge from the problems defined in indeterminate situations. A historical example was the introduction of the notion of complementarity in physics, which allowed the interpretation of two confusingly paradoxical experiments in a coherent way. Dewey's thought demonstrates its relevance by helping us to define the pattern of inquiry. Methodological pluralism and the dependence of logic on research problems is not something that will happen, it is something that has happened and does happen in scientific practices.

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