A Priori Revisability in Science PDF
By:Boris D. Grozdanoff
Published on 2014-06-19 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
The most influential rationalist model of scientific knowledge is arguably the one formulated recently by Michael Friedman. The central epistemic claim of the model concerns the character of its fundamental principles which are said to be independent from experience. Friedman’s position faces the modern empiricist challenge: he has to explain how the principles could still be a priori if they change under empirical pressure. This book provides a contemporary account of the epistemic character of the principles, addressing recent work on the a priori in modern analytic epistemology. Its main thesis is that at least some principles within natural science are not empirically but a priori revisable. A Priori Revisability in Science formulates a general notion of epistemic revisability and extracts two kinds of specific revisabilities: the traditional empirical one and the suggested novel a priori revisability. It presents the argument that the latter is as vital as the former and even so within natural science. To demonstrate this, the author analyzes two case studies – one from the history of geometry and one from the history of physics – and shows that the revisions were a priori. The result of this is two-fold. First, a genuine alternative of empirical revisability is developed, and not just for traditional a priori domains like mathematics, but for the natural sciences as well. Second, a new mechanism for the dynamics of science is suggested, the a priori dynamics, at the core of which the scientific knowledge sometimes evolves through non-empirical moves.
This Book was ranked at 7 by Google Books for keyword Science Math History Philosophy novel.
Book ID of A Priori Revisability in Science's Books is 0MoxBwAAQBAJ, Book which was written byBoris D. Grozdanoffhave ETAG "bN+i7vL2Pk4"
Book which was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing since 2014-06-19 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781443861762 and ISBN 10 Code is 1443861766
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "195 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryScience
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false
Book Preview
Download A Priori Revisability in Science PDF Free
Download A Priori Revisability in Science Books Free
Download A Priori Revisability in Science Free
Download A Priori Revisability in Science PDF
Download A Priori Revisability in Science Books
No comments:
Post a Comment