Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science: Scientific and Philosophical Essays in Honour of Azarya Polikarov: 192 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 192) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792344448 ISBN 13: 9780792344445

Publisher: Springer, 1997

Synopsis

Azarya Polikarov was born in Sofia on October 9, 1921. Through the many stages of politics, economy, and culture in Bulgaria, he maintained his rational humanity and scientific curiosity. He has been a splendid teacher and an accomplished critical philosopher exploring the conceptual and historical vicis­ situdes of physics in modern times and also the science policies that favor or threaten human life in these decades. Equally and easily at home both within the Eastern and Central European countries and within the Western world. Polikarov is known as a collaborating genial colleague, a working scholar. not at all a visiting academic tourist. He understands the philosophy of science from within, in all its developments, from the classical beginnings through the great ages of Galilean, Newtonian. Maxwellian science. to the times of the stunning discoveries and imaginative theories of his beloved Einstein and Bohr of the twentieth century. Moreover, his understanding has come along with a deep knowledge of the scientific topics in themselves. Looking at our Appendix listing his principal publications, we see that Polikarov's public research career, after years of science teaching and popular science writing, began in the fifties in Bulgarian, Russian and German journals.

About this title

Synopsis

In this volume of philosophical and scientific essays, 24 authors from a dozen countries, East and West, explore issues in the theoretical practices of the sciences, with particular attention to theoretical physics. Likewise they set forth differing images of scientific interactions with philosophy. The topics include realism and anti-realism, hermeneutics and ontology of science, cognitive dynamics, indeterminacy, symmetries and explanations, a systems approach to classification of scientific knowledge and research, constructivism and relativism, explaining scientific revolutions, Nietzsche on science in the light of art, Aristotle today, methodological observations on communicating with extra-terrestrial intelligence, and the human right to know. The volume is dedicated to the Bulgarian philosopher of science, Azarya Polikarov; it includes an essay on his philosophical stand, and a full Polikarov bibliography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792344448
• ISBN 13: 9780792344445
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420
• Editor: Ginev D., Cohen Robert S.