Creative understanding: philosophical reflections on physics

by Torretti, Roberto

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Full title :Creative understanding : philosophical reflections on physics / Roberto Torretti.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1990.

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Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:1990.

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 369 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0226808343, 9780226808345, 0226808351, 9780226808352
oclc:ocm21518030
LC Classification:QC6
Dewey Decimal:530/.01

Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Observation -- 1.1. Two main forms of observation -- 1.2. Conceptual grasp of the objects of observation -- 1.3. On the manifest qualities of things -- 1.4. Our understanding of the process of observation -- 1.5. Personal versus impersonal observation -- 1.6. On the relation between observed objects and receiver states -- 2. Concepts -- 2.1. Explaining and conceiving -- 2.2. Examples from Newton -- 2.3. Questions raised by conceptual innovation -- 2.4. Are there limits to conceptual innovation in science? -- 2.4.1. Self-classifying sense impressions -- 2.4.2. Kant's forms and categories -- 2.4.3. Carnap's observable predicates -- 2.5. Conceptual criticism as a catalyzer of scientific change -- 2.6. Reference without sense -- 2.6.1. Denoting and connoting -- 2.6.2. Putnam's attack on intensions -- 2.6.3. The meaning of natural kind terms -- 2.6.4. Speaking of quantities -- 2.6.5. 'Mass' in classical and relativistic dynamics -- 2.6.6. Putnam's progress -- 2.7. Conceptual schemes -- 2.8. Appendix: Mathematical structures -- 2.8.1. Sets -- 2.8.2. Mappings -- 2.8.3. Echelon sets over a collection of sets -- 2.8.4. Structu…

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08.35 philosophy of science Philosophical aspects Philosophie physics Physics -- Methodology Physics -- Philosophy Physikalische Theorie Physique -- Méthodologie Physique -- Philosophie