Philosophy and Conceptual History of Science in Taiwan

Philosophy and Conceptual History of Science in Taiwan edited by Cheng-Hun Lin, Daiwie Fu.

Scholarly studies of mathematics and the sciences, carried out by philos­ ophers and historians in Taiwan in recent years, have two main goals: first, positive and critical participation in the logical analysis of scientific theories and scientific explanation; and second, conceptual clarification j...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cheng-Hun Lin (Editor), Daiwie Fu (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Edition:1st ed. 1993.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 141
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
History.
Language and languages—Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • I/Philosophy of Science
  • On the Analytic and the Synthetic
  • Solutions to the Paradoxes of Confirmation, Goodman’s Paradox, and Two New Theories of Confirmation
  • Hempel on Inductive Shortcomings in Craigian Method
  • Confirmation Logic and Its Applications
  • Popper’s Logical Analysis of Basic Statements
  • The Evolution of Science: Theoretic Recombination as a Selection Process
  • Eliminative Materialism and Connectionism
  • II/Conceptual History of Science
  • Problem Domain, Taxonomy, and Comparativity in Histories of Science — With a Case Study in the Comparative History of ‘Optics’
  • From One Gnomon to Two Gnomons: A Methodological Study of the Method of Double Differences
  • Chinese Mathematics at the Turn of the 19th Century: Jiao Xun, Wang Lai and Li Rui
  • Bao Qi-Shou (???) and His Polyhedral Hun Yuan Tu (???)
  • The Development of Geology in Republican China, 1912–1937
  • Local Contexts, Strategies and Sinicization: A Case Study of the Sinicization Formulation in the Social Sciences of Taiwan (1970s—1980s)
  • Notes on Contributors.

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