Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Autore: | Gattei Stefano |
Titolo: | Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic turn" and the legacy of logical empiricism : incommensurability, rationality and the search for truth / / Stefano Gattei |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
Disciplina: | 146.42 |
501 | |
Soggetto topico: | Logical positivism |
Science - History | |
Science - Philosophy | |
Note generali: | "First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-268) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Two Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science; 2 Kuhn and the "New Philosophy of Science"; 3 Incommensurability; 4 Kuhn's "Linguistic Turn"; 5 The Shadow of Positivism; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Presenting a critical history of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the transition from logical positivism in its first half to the ""new philosophy of science"" in its second, Stefano Gattei examines the influence of several key figures, but the main focus of the book are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. Gattei makes two important claims about the development of the philosophy of science in the twentieth century; that Kuhn is much closer to positivism than many have supposed, failing to solve the crisis of neopostivism, and that Popper, in responding to the deeper cri |
Titolo autorizzato: | Thomas Kuhn's "linguistic turn" and the legacy of logical empiricism |
ISBN: | 1-351-87910-3 |
1-315-23612-5 | |
1-281-83422-X | |
9786611834227 | |
0-7546-9300-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910782593403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |