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What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 38)

Editors: Lund, Matthew D.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1739-5

ISBN: 978-94-024-1738-8

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 30, 2020

1 - 10 of 25 Chapters

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A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 3 –38

[Perplexities concerning Scientific Theories persist because the usual ‘singled valued’ philosophical analyses cannot do justice to the problematic features of so complex a semantical entity. The components of theories are like law statements, and like models and hypotheses, being conceptual...
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On Elementary Particle Theory

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 39 –47

[In 30 years the science of elementary particles has made few achievements compared with its unsuccessful essays. The recent works of Schwinger, Tomonaga, Feynman and Dyson, however, have had some success (Particularly with relativistic phenomena and the relativistic subtraction). We have here a...
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Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 49 –60

[A subtitle for this paper might have been ‘Creation, Conservation and the Cloak of Night’ – for it is these semantical knots in the reticulum of contemporary cosmology which I shall seek to unravel, or at least to re-knot. Clearly, much of the fabric of scientific cosmology is rent and torn by...
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Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 61 –80

[A loose analogy relates the work of Laplace and Hilbert. These thinkers had roughly similar objectives. At a time when so much of our analytic effort goes to distinguishing mathematics and logic from physical theory, such an analogy can still be instructive, even though differences will always...
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Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of Science

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 81 –121

[Norwood Russell Hanson (1924–1967) was a man out of his time, a character from the Florentine Renaissance growing up in the contemporary United States. Hanson showed how much can still be achieved, even within the professionalized technocratic society of the mid-twentieth century, by the true...
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Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 125 –145

[U. J. J. Leverrier was a colossus of nineteenth-century science. But for philosophers and historians his work has lain largely undiscovered; a suboceanic mountain beneath the scientific sea. We have surrendered 1859 to another giant. This is indeed the year of the watershed; it divides history...
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The Contributions of Other Disciplines to Nineteenth Century Physics

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 147 –156

[My objective here is vulnerable to some spurious semantics. I aim to delineate how the development of physical theory in the later nineteenth century was essentially dependent on the reflections and discoveries of Chemists, Biologists and Mathematicians. But when one alludes to some professional...
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The Trial of Galileo

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 157 –169

[The trial of Galileo has long been used by historians, by philosophers, and by scientists as a classic example of intellectual martyrdom, resembling somewhat the trial of Socrates. Since that is the way “the Galileo story” is usually represented, it turns out replete with villains and heroes....
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On Being in Two Places at Once

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 173 –184

[In his early book Reality, Paul Weiss says interesting and important things. Some remarks however, besides being interesting and important, require further examination. The following quotation is a case in point.]
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Copernicus’ Rôle in Kant’s Revolution

Hanson, Norwood Russell

Pages: 185 –192

[Like Copernicus, Kant sought to explain the properties of observed phenomena by postulating a kind of activity in the observer. This is the “Copernican Revolution”. Nonetheless, in expositions of Kant’s metaphysics the expressions “Copernican Revolution” and “Copernican Hypothesis” have come to...

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