Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to fundamental question of methodology, 'Wittgenstein among the Sciences' undertakes an examination of the nature of (natural) science itself, in the light of which a series of successive cases of putatively scienti…
Discussing the work of Kuhn, Winch and Wittgenstein in relation to the fundamental question of methodology in science and social science, this book undertakes an examination of the nature of science itself, in the light of which a series of successive cases of putatively scienti…
What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that the historic link between science…
"Dreihundert Jahre nach Leibniz' Tod ist sein Denken so aktuell wie eh und je. Nicht nur, dass wir in der Infinitesimalrechnung die von ihm eingeführten Symbole verwenden oder uns in allen Computersprachen seiner binären Codierung von Begriffen und Aussagen bedienen -- es sind v…
