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Continental Philosophy of Science

ISBN: 978-0-631-23609-2

February 2005

Wiley-Blackwell

344 pages

Description

Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guide to the major twentieth-century French and German philosophical thinking on science.

  • A comprehensive introduction by the editor provides a unified interpretative survey of continental work on philosophy of science.
  • Interpretative essays are complemented by key primary-source selections.
  • Includes previously untranslated texts by Bergson, Bachelard, and Canguilhem and new translations of texts by Hegel and Cassirer.
  • Contributors include Terry Pinkard, Jean Gayon, Richard Tieszen, Michael Friedman, Joseph Rouse, Mary Tiles, Hans-Jöerg Rheinberger, Linda Alcoff, Todd May, Axel Honneth, and Penelope Deutscher.
About the Author
Gary Gutting holds the Notre Dame Chair in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His recent publications include Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity (1999), and French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (2001). He is founder and editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, an online book review journal
Features

  • Offers an expert guide to the major twentieth-century French and German philosophical thinking on science.



  • A comprehensive introduction by the editor provides a unified interpretative survey of continental work on philosophy of science.



  • Interpretative essays are complemented by key primary-source selections.



  • Includes previously untranslated texts by Bergson, Bachelard, and Canguilhem and new translations of texts by Hegel and Cassirer.



  • Contributors include Terry Pinkard, Jean Gayon, Richard Tieszen, Michael Friedman, Joseph Rouse, Mary Tiles, Hans-Jöerg Rheinberger, Linda Alcoff, Todd May, Axel Honneth, and Penelope Deutscher.