The rise of scientific philosophy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reichenbach, Hans
Format: Book
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1980?]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The Roots of Speculative Philosophy. The Question. The Search for Generality and the Pseudo Explanation. The Search for Certainty and the Rationalistic Conception of Knowledge. The Search for Moral Directives and the Ethico-Cognitive Parallelism. The Empiricist Approach: Success and Failure. The Twofold Nature of Classical Physics: Its Empirical and Its Rational Aspect. The Results of Scientific Philosophy. The Origin of the New Philosophy. The Nature of Geometry. What Is Time?. The Laws of Nature. Are There Atoms?. Evolution. Modern Logic. Predictive Knowledge. Interlude: Hamlet's Soliloquy. The Functional Conception of Knowledge. The Nature of Ethics. The Old and the New Philosophy: A Comparison