The Reach of Science - Couverture souple

Mehlberg, Henryk

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1487581483 ISBN 13 : 9781487581480

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1958

Synopsis

This volume attempts to deal in a systematic manner with the range and limits of scientific method, utilizing numerous findings in the logic and methodology of science.

Professor Mehlberg's main conclusion is the universality of scientific problem-solving methods, i.e., that if any cognitive problems is meaningful and solvable, then its solution can in principle be found by applying scientific method. This conclusion is reached through a detailed analysis of the main fact-finding and law-finding scientific methods, as well as of the more intricate methods of forming scientific theory. While it implies the universal applicability of scientific method, this book involves neither a positivistic monopoly of science nor a ban on those traditional philosophical investigations of a meta-physical, epistemological and ethnical nature which have so far resisted a scientific approach.

Professor Mehlberg is concerned with the scope of her knowledge which science can provide rather than with the social value and impact of such knowledge. However, the meaning of science to society depends upon the scope of scientific knowledge, and the book should, therefore, be of interest not only to philosophers and scientists engaged in foundational research, but to many who are concerned with the social and ideological repercussions of scientific findings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

HENRYK MEHLBERG is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Unviersity of Chicago. A graduate of the University of Lwow, Poland, he continued his post-doctoral studies in the philosophy of science at Freiberg, Germany and at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France. Up to 1949, he had been Associate Professor of Logic and Scientific Method at the Universities of Lodz and Wroclaw, Poland. He came to Canada in 1949 as a Fellow of the Lady Davies Foundation. He taught at the University of Toronto until 1955 and at Princeton University during the 1955-6 session. He was awarded a research grant by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1950-1. Dr. Mehlberg has already published considerably in his field, in French, German, and Polish, and for a number of years has taken part in the International Philosophical Congress.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 1958
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487581483
• ISBN 13: 9781487581480
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 370
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• Personne responsable: non disponible