Bachelard: Science and ObjectivityCambridge University Press, 6 dic 1984 - 242 páginas This is the first critically evaluative study of Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of science to be written in English. Bachelard's professional reputation was based on his philosophy of science, though that aspect of his thought has tended to be neglected by his English-speaking readers. Dr Tiles concentrates here on Bachelard's critique of scientific knowledge. Bachelard emphasised discontinuities in the history of science; in particular he stressed the ways of thinking about and investigating the world to be found in modern science. This, as the author shows, is paralleled by those debates among English-speaking philosophers about the rationality of science and the 'incommensurability' of different theories. To these problems Bachelard might be taken as offering an original solution: rather than see discontinuities as a threat to the objectivity of science, see them as products of the rational advancement of scientific knowledge. Dr Tiles sets out Bachelard's views and critically assesses them, reflecting also on the wider question of how one might assess potentially incommensurable positions in the philosophy of science as well as in science itself. |
Índice
Philosophy of science the project | 1 |
1 Analytic orthodoxy | 2 |
a Logic and the rational structure of science | 4 |
b From philosophy to philosophy of science | 7 |
2 Bachelardian heresies | 9 |
a History and the rational structure of science | 10 |
b From science to philosophy of science | 16 |
3 Reason and the rationality of science | 19 |
6 The epistemology of reason | 104 |
7 The structure of nonEuclidean thought | 109 |
8 Logic mathematics and scientific retionality | 114 |
NonBaconian science and conceptual change | 120 |
2 Approximation and the same of reality | 126 |
3 Induction experimental error and identity | 131 |
4 From Baconian to nonBaconian science | 139 |
5 Concepts and the dynamics of conceptual change | 142 |
a Rational mechanism | 21 |
b Reflective reason | 22 |
c Scientific theories and scientific thought | 24 |
NonCartesian epistemology and scientific objectivity | 28 |
2 Cartesian epistemology and epistemological analysis | 33 |
3 NonCartesian epistemology | 39 |
4 NonCartesian epistemology and the rejection of realism | 42 |
5 The structure of an epistemological field | 44 |
6 Objective knowledge | 48 |
7 Subjectobject | 53 |
8 Objectivity and the nonCartesian subject | 58 |
Non Euclidean mathematics and the rationality of science | 66 |
1 NonEuclidean geometry and the demise of geometrical intuition | 68 |
2 Formal logic and the avoidance of psychologism | 72 |
3 Arithmetic reason in action | 78 |
4 Twohanded improvisation on a theme | 81 |
a Left hand | 82 |
b Right hand | 87 |
5 To measure the continuous | 91 |
b To algebraise geometry | 96 |
c To arithmetise analysis | 100 |
b Conceptual dynamics | 154 |
6 Analysis of a notion of mass | 160 |
7 Analysis of the analysis | 164 |
8 Convergence | 174 |
The epistemology of revolution between realism and instrumentalism | 180 |
1 Causality and objectivity | 183 |
a Cause and substance | 186 |
b Cause without substance | 189 |
2 Applying mathematics | 195 |
b Construction and the composition of causes | 201 |
c Composition of causes and the rational structure of science | 203 |
3 Rational structure rational activity and the forms of experience | 205 |
a Departing from Kant | 206 |
b Making theories empirical | 210 |
4 Objectivity and the limits of the possibility of experience | 212 |
5 Scepticism or the possibility of knowledge? | 218 |
6 From science to the philosophy of science? | 221 |
Reference | 231 |
Biographical note | 237 |
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