Reason and Nature: An Essay on the Meaning of Scientific Method

ISBN-13: 9781138310582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 470 str.

Morris R. Cohen

Opis

First published in 1931, this volume aimed to demonstrate the fundamental and ancient connection between nature and science - between hearts and minds – in an attempt to salve the developing mutual hostility between the two in the 1920s.

Spis treści

Part 1. Reason and the Nature of Things. 1. The Insurgence Against Reason. 2. The Rivals and Substitutes for Reason. 3. Reason and Scientific Method. 4. The Metaphysics of Reason and Scientific Method. Part 2. Reason in Natural Science. 1. The Nature of Mathematics. 2. Mechanism and Causality in Physics. 3. Law and Purpose in Biology. 4. Psychology as a Natural Science. Part 3. Reason in Social Science. 1. The Social and the Natural Sciences. 2. History Versus Value. 3. Communal Ghosts in Political Theory. 4. Natural Rights and Positive Law. 5. The Possibility of Ethical Science. Part 4. Epilogue. In Dispraise of Life, Experience and Reality.

O autorze

Morris R. Cohen