Overview
- Offers an up-to-date overview of the philosophical work of Evandro Agazzi, the leading Italian philosopher of science
- Explains and discusses Agazzi’s contributions in a wide range of areas
- Written by international contributors, including many Spanish- and Italian-speaking philosophers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book offers the most complete and up-to-date overview of the philosophical work of Evandro Agazzi, presently the most important Italian philosopher of science and one of the most influential in the world. Scholars from seven countries explore his contributions in areas ranging from philosophy of physics and general philosophy of science to bioethics, philosophy of mathematics and logic, epistemology of the social sciences and history of science, philosophy of language and artificial intelligence, education and anthropology, metaphysics and philosophy of religion. Agazzi developed a complete and coherent philosophical system, anticipating some of the turns in the philosophy of science after the crisis of logical empiricism and exerting an equal influence on continental hermeneutic philosophy. His work is characterized by an original synthesis of contemporary analytic philosophy, phenomenology and classical philosophy, including the scholastic tradition and these threads are reflected in the different backgrounds of the contributors to this book. While upholding the epistemological value of science against scepticism and relativism, Agazzi eschews scientism by stressing the equal importance of non-scientific forms of thought, such as metaphysics and religion. While defending the freedom of research as a cognitive enterprise, he argues that as a human and social practice it must nonetheless respect ethical constraints.
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Keywords
- Anthropology in Agazzi's Work
- Ethics in Agazzi's Work
- Evandro Agazzi Festschrift
- Metaphysics in Agazzi's Work
- Metaphysics in Agazzi's Work
- Objectivity in Agazzi's Work
- Philosophy of Physics in Agazzi's Work
- Philosophy of Religion in Agazzi's Work
- Philosophy of Science in Agazzi's Work
- Realism in Agazzi's Work
Table of contents (23 chapters)
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General Philosophy of Science
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Philosophy of the Special Sciences
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Logic, Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Language
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Anthropology, History and Culture
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science Between Truth and Ethical Responsibility
Book Subtitle: Evandro Agazzi in the Contemporary Scientific and Philosophical Debate
Editors: Mario Alai, Marco Buzzoni, Gino Tarozzi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16369-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16368-0Published: 20 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36467-4Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16369-7Published: 30 April 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Epistemology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics