The Significance of the Hypothetical in Natural Science

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De Gruyter (2009)
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How was the hypothetical character of theories of experience thought about throughout the history of science? The essays cover periods from the middle ages to the 19th and 20th centuries. It is fascinating to see how natural scientists and philosophers were increasingly forced to realize that a natural science without hypotheses is not possible.

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Q175.32.R45.S54 2009

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Hypotheticity and Realism – Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism.Andreas Bartels
Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism?Christophe Bouriau
Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature.Michael Esfeld
“Instrumentalism” and “Realism” as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides.Gad Freudenthal
Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux.Michael Heidelberger
Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré.Gerhard Heinzmann
Introduction: The Significance of the Hypothetical in Natural Science.Michael Heidelberger & Gregor Schiemann
Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz’s Philosophy of Science.Andreas Hüttemann
Hypothesis in Early Modern Science.Ernan McMullin
The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses.Alfred Nordmann
From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann’s “Principles of the Galilean–Newtonian Theory”.Helmut Pulte
Werner Heisenberg’s Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science.Gregor Schiemann
Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill.Laura J. Snyder
Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke’s Realm.Rainer Specht
Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré’s Defense of Galilei Spacetime.Scott Walter

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Michael Heidelberger
University Tübingen
Gregor Schiemann
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