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What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays

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What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays

[Book]

by Norwood Russell Hanson ; edited by Stephen Toulmin, Harry Woolf.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1971

(412 pages)

Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 38.

I / Philosophy of Science --; I.A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning --; II. On Elementary Particle Theory --; III. Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies --; IV. Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy --; II / History of Science --; V. Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics --; VI. The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics --; III / General Philosophy --; VII. On Being in Two Places at Once --; VIII. Copernicus' Rôle in Kant's Revolution --; IX. It's Actual, so It's Possible --; X. On Having the Same Visual Experiences --; XI. Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments --; IV / Logic --; XII. Imagining the Impossible --; XIII. On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics --; XIV. Good Inductive Reasons --; XV. A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity --; XVI. The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science --; XVII. The Idea of a Logic of Discovery --; V / Religion --; XVIII. The Agnostic's Dilemma --; XIX. What I Don't Believe --; VI / The Theory Of Flight --; Introduction, by Edward MacKinnon, S.J. --; XX. Lecture One: The Discovery of Air --; XXI. Lecture Two: The Shape of An Idea --; XXII. Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

by Norwood Russell Hanson ; edited by Stephen Toulmin, Harry Woolf.

Harry Woolf

Norwood Russell Hanson

Stephen Toulmin

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