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• Title:The significance of the hypothetical in natural sciences / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Heidelberger, Michael.
  Schiemann, Gregor.
  
• Published/Created:Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Q175.32.R45 S54 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Reasoning.
  Hypothesis.
  Science--Methodology.
  
• Description:viii, 376 pages ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9783110206944 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  3110206943 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  9783110210620
  3110210622
  
• Contents:Introduction / Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann
  Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / Eman McMullin
  Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Rainer Specht
  Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Laura J. Snyder
  From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Calilean-Newtonian Theory" / Helmut Pulte
  Contingent Laws of Nature in Emile Boutroux / Michael Heidelberger
  Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Andreas Huttemann
  Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincare / Gerhard Heinemann
  Hypothesis and Convention in Poincare's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Scott Walter
  Vaihinger and Poincare: An Original Pragmatism? / Christophe Bouriau
  Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Gregor Schiemann
  "Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Gad Freudenthal
  Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Andreas Bartels
  Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Alfred Nordmann
  Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Michael Esfeld.