On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair

ISBN-13: 9780198797920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Recenzje

This work is distinguished by an unhurried, comprehensive presentation of the relevant historical facts...and a patient unbraiding and discussion of the surprisingly numerous and diverse methodological issues...They cannot be found laid out and explained with anywhere near the adequacy and clarity they receive here in any other book on the topic. All future discussion on Galileo necessarily moves through Finocchiaro's culminating masterpiece.

O autorze

Maurice Finocchiaro is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1964) and of the University of California-Berkeley (Ph.D., 1969); now Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation (1976-77 and 1998-2002), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1983-84 and 1992-95), the American Council of Learned Societies (1991-92), the Guggenheim Foundation (1998-99), and the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (2008). His books include Galileo and the Art of Reasoning (1980), Defending Copernicus and Galileo: Critical Reasoning in the Two Affairs (2010), Arguments about Arguments (2005), and Meta-argumentation (2013).