Collected works. Volume 1, Scientific rationality, the human condition, and 20th century cosmologies / Adolf Grunbaum ; edited by Thomas Kupka.

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Grünbaum, Adolf

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Kupka, Thomas

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computer

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online resource

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9780199989935
0199989931

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Works. Selections. 2013

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501 23

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Q175.3 .G78 2013eb

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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Provenance of Chapters""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY""; ""1. Is Falsifiability the Touchstone of Scientific Rationality? Karl Popper Versus Inductivism (1976)""; ""2. The Degeneration of Popperâ€?s Theory of Demarcation (1989)""; ""3. The Falsifiability of Theories: Total or Partial? A Contemporary Evaluation of the Duhem-Quine Thesis (1962)""; ""Appendix: A Letter from W. V. O. Quine of June 1, 1962""; ""PART TWO: DETERMINISM AND THE HUMAN CONDITION""; ""4. Free Will and Laws of Human Behavior (1972)""

""5. Historical Determinism, Social Activism, and Predictions in the Social Sciences (1956)""""6. In Defense of Secular Humanism (1995)""; ""PART THREE: PHILOSOPHY OF THE 20TH-CENTURY PHYSICAL COSMOLOGIES AND THE CRITIQUE OF THEIR THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS""; ""7. The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology (2004)""; ""8. Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology (1998)""; ""9. A New Critique of Theological Interpretations of Physical Cosmology (2000)""; ""10. Pseudo-Creation of the Big Bang (1990)""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""

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Summary: This volume collects Adolf Grünbaum's most discussed essays on scientific rationality. It covers the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called scientific and asks whether it is plausible to draw a clear distinction between science and non-science. It also delves into the debate between determinism and indeterminism both in science and in the humanities, and defends the position of the human determinist. This then leads to a thorough criticism of the current theological approaches to ethics and morality, where Grünbaum defends an explicit secular humanism, as well as to a detailed critique of the prominent theistic interpretations of twentieth century physical cosmologies.

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""H""""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

This volume collects Adolf Grünbaum's most discussed essays on scientific rationality. It covers the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called scientific and asks whether it is plausible to draw a clear distinction between science and non-science. It also delves into the debate between determinism and indeterminism both in science and in the humanities, and defends the position of the human determinist. This then leads to a thorough criticism of the current theological approaches to ethics and morality, where Grünbaum defends an explicit secular humanism, as well as to a detailed critique of the prominent theistic interpretations of twentieth century physical cosmologies.

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