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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 61)
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The work of Galileo has long been important not only as a foundation of modern physics but also as a model - and perhaps the paradigmatic model - of scientific method, and therefore as a leading example of scientific rationality. However, as we know, the matter is not so simple. The range of Galileo readings is so varied that one may be led to the conclusion that it is a case of chacun a son Galileo; that here, as with the Bible, or Plato or Kant or Freud or Finnegan's Wake, the texts themselves underdetermine just what moral is to be pointed. But if there is no canonical reading, how can the texts be taken as evidence or example of a canonical view of scientific rationality, as in Galileo? Or is it the case, instead, that we decide a priori what the norms of rationality are and then pick through texts to fmd those which satisfy these norms? Specifically, how and on what grounds are we to accept or reject scientific theories, or scientific reasoning? If we are to do this on the basis of historical analysis of how, in fact, theories came to be accepted or rejected, how shall we distinguish 'is' from 'ought'? What follows (if anything does) from such analysis or reconstruction about how theories ought to be accepted or rejected? Maurice Finocchiaro's study of Galileo brings an important and original approach to the question of scientific rationality by way of a systematic read
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Galileo’s Dialogue
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Front Matter
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Logical and Methodological Critiques
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Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Galileo and the Art of Reasoning
Book Subtitle: Rhetorical Foundation of Logic and Scientific Method
Authors: Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9017-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company Dordrecht, Holland 1980
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1094-9Published: 31 August 1980
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1095-6Published: 31 August 1980
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9017-3Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 481
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general