Studies in the methodology of science.

300 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 22 cm Tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents -- A c k n o w led g m en ts 9 -- In tro d u c tio n 11 -- C h ap ter 1: M ethodological Issues in Scientific E x p lan a tio n 13 -- 11 J Woodward on Scientific Explanation14 -- 12 Conditions in Laws and Explanations17 -- 13 Heuristic in Scientific Explanation 22 -- 14 Open Problems 26 -- P art I: M ethodological Issues in Physics -- C h ap ter 2: B o h r’s A tom : D ata, P h en o m en a, Laws o f -- P h en o m en a, an d E xplanations via M ech an ism 31 -- 21 Meta-reflections: Pure Metaphysics, Pure Epistemology, -- and Epistemology-cum-Metaphysics 32 -- 22 J Bogen and J Woodward on Data and Phenomena 35 -- 23 From the Spectra of Gases to the Internal Motion in the -- Molecules of Gases and “Back”: The “Stoney” Program 40 -- 24 The Spectra and the Stability of the A tom 44 -- 241 From data to phenomena: A-J Angstrom44 -- 242 From Phenomena to Laws of Phenomena: -- J J Balmer, J R Rydberg, and W Ritz 50 -- 243 Towards the Atom: Its Stability and Its Electrons 56 -- 25 Bohr s Stationary States and the Stability of the Atom 61 -- 26 The Spectra Explained and Predicted 64 -- 27 General Epistemological Lessons 71 -- C h ap ter 3: O bservability an d T heory-L adenness o f -- O bservation: M yths an d F acts79 -- 31 Logical Positivism/Empiricism and the -- Post-positivistic Backlash: The Myths 79 -- 311 From Logical Positivism to Logical Empiricism 79 -- 312 Post-positivism and theTheory Ladenness of Observation 84 -- 32 Can a Theory-Loaded Theory Be Tested? A Case Study 85 -- 321 Bahners Formula and Bohr’s Hydrogen Atom 86 -- 322 An Attempt at an Epistemological Generalization 90 -- 33 An Epistemological Way O u t94 -- Chapter 4: Kantian and Post-Kantian Themes in -- Early Quantum Mechanics101 -- 41 Kant on Intuition, Appearance, the Thing-in-Itself, -- and Categories102 -- 42 The Early Matrix Mechanics and Wave Mechanics105 -- 43 The Myth of Observability: Kantian Themes in Early -- Quantum Mechanics110 -- 44 Clarifications: Some Post-Kantian Themes in -- Early Quantum Mechanics 118 -- Chapter 5: Measurement and Conceptual Networks -- in Early Thermodynamics125 -- 51 Fire, Heat, Temperature, Thermometer and Weight x Distance125 -- 511 Fire/heat and temperature125 -- 512 Bootstrapping in the measurement of heat -- by means of the measurement of temperature131 -- 513 Work as weight x distance132 -- 514 Joule’s on the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat133 -- 52 A Philosophical Explication 134 -- 53 A Test: Thomson’s Concept of Absolute Temperature138 -- Part II: Methodological Issues in Primate Research -- Chapter 6: The Methodological Turn in Ape Research: -- Sue Savage Rumbaugh143 -- 61 The Starting Points: The Late Sixties, Early Seventies, -- and the Lana Project144 -- 62 The Sherman-Austin Project 148 -- 63 The Kanzi Project156 -- 64 Metascience and Methodology: -- From Behaviorism to Narrative Ethnography 162 -- 65 Some Objections169 ISBN 9783631665114

Physik ; Primatologie ; Politische Ökonomie ; Methodologie ; Wissenschaftstheorie, Naturwissenschaften, Politik, Allgemeines, Wissenschaft