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Early Continental Philosophy Of Science, Babette Babich
Early Continental Philosophy Of Science, Babette Babich
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Continental Philosophy Of Science: Mach, Duhem, And Bachelard, Babette Babich
Continental Philosophy Of Science: Mach, Duhem, And Bachelard, Babette Babich
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As representatives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century empiricism and positivism, the particular names Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) and Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) have of course and as already noted much more than a merely historical significance. In analytic philosophy of science, an ongoing tradition of reinterpretations of their work continues to influence the current linguistic or theoretical crisis in analytic philosophy and semiotics - semantics of scientific theory (Duhem not only as represented by W.V.O.Quine but also Stanley Jaki) as well as, on the other hand, the current emphasis on experiment representing the counter-absolutist turn to the history (and …