Overview
- Offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of European Philosophy of Science
- Reports on approaches to scientific knowledge, informed by transcendentalism and critical rationalism
- Discusses in depth the problem of the decline of science from both social and epistemological perspectives
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 62)
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the European tradition of the twentieth century. At first, it shows how the epistemological problem of the objectivity of knowledge and axiomatic knowledge have been previously tackled by transcendentalism, critical rationalism and hermeneutics. In turn, it analyses the axiological dimension of scientific research, moving from traditional model of science and of scientific methods, to the construction of a new image of knowledge that leverages the philosophical tradition of the Milan School. Using this historical-epistemological approach, the author rethinks the Kantian Transcendental, showing how it could be better integrated in the current philosophy of science, to answer important questions such as the relationship between science and history, scientific and social perspectives and philosophy and technology, among others.
Not only thisbook provides a comprehensive study of the evolution of European Philosophy of Science in the twentieth century, yet it offers a new, historical and epistemological-based approach, that could be used to answers many urgent questions of contemporary societies.
Not only thisbook provides a comprehensive study of the evolution of European Philosophy of Science in the twentieth century, yet it offers a new, historical and epistemological-based approach, that could be used to answers many urgent questions of contemporary societies.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical-Evolutionary Epistemology and Logical Neo-Realism
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Some Moments of Scientific and Philosophical Thought
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Studies on Contemporary Thought
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Fabio Minazzi is a full professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. An authoritative figure in the tradition of the European critical rationalism, he edited about seventy books and authored more than thirty monographs.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historical Epistemology and European Philosophy of Science
Book Subtitle: Rethinking Critical Rationalism and Transcendentalism
Authors: Fabio Minazzi
Translated by: Richard Sadleir
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96332-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96331-6Published: 02 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96334-7Published: 04 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96332-3Published: 01 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 402
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Pragmatism