Collected Works, Volume I: Scientific Rationality, the Human Condition, and 20th Century Cosmologies: 01 (Collected Works (Oxford)) - Hardcover

Grünbaum, Adolf

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ISBN 10: 0199989923 ISBN 13: 9780199989928

Verlag: OUP USA, 2013

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Clearly written, rich in content, well-argued, and insightful, this is a masterful collection of essays that should find its way onto the reading list of all those interested in scientific rationality, free will, secular humanism, and theistic cosmology. (The Review of Metaphysics)

In the philosophical world, Grünbaum is a man of immense stature. He is arguably the greatest living philosopher of science. (Jim Holt, in Why Does the World Exist?)

Any attempt to understand the professional and academic development of philosophy in the second half of the 20th century, especially in the United States, rather requires an understanding of Grunbaum and his work. (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)

Reseña del editor:

Adolf Grünbaum is one of the giants of 20th century philosophy of science. This volume is the first of three collecting his most essential and highly influential work.

The essays collected in this first volume focus on three related areas. They discuss scientific rationality-the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called scientific, and ask whether it is plausible to draw a clear distinction between science and non-science as was famously proposed by Karl Popper. They delve into the debate between determinism and indeterminism, in both science and in the humanities. Grünbaum defends the position of the Humane Determinist, which then leads to a thorough criticism of the current theological approaches to ethics and morality-where Grünbaum defends an explicit Secular Humanism-as well as of prominent theistic interpretations of twentieth century physical cosmologies.

The second volume is devoted to Grünbaum's writings on the Philosophy of Physics and Space-Time, and the third to his lectures on the Philosophy of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, including his 1985 Gifford Lectures, which are to be published for the first time.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199989923
• ISBN 13: 9780199989928
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304