The Peculiar Status of Cosmology As a Science

The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 5:73-80 (2007)
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In this essay I shall try to offer an outline of an answer to the question of which subject matter and which methodological peculiarities of cosmology caused cosmology only in this century to be transformed into one of the scientific branches of physics in spite of the fact that cosmological considerations on the Universe, and particularly on its origin, are present in the most archaic cultures and so belong to some of the oldest springs of human thought.

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