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Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature

From the book The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences

  • Michael Esfeld
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210620.341
From the book
The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences
The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences

Chapters in this book (18)

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Hypothesis in Early Modern Science
Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke’s Realm
Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill
From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann’s “Principles of the Galilean–Newtonian Theory”
Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux
Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz’s Philosophy of Science
Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré
Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré’s Defense of Galilei Spacetime
Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism?
Werner Heisenberg’s Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science
“Instrumentalism” and “Realism” as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides
Hypotheticity and Realism – Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism
The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses
Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature
Backmatter
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