Poincaré, philosopher of science : problems and perspectives
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Poincaré, philosopher of science : problems and perspectives
（The Western Ontario series in philosophy of science, v. 79）
Springer, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This volume presents a selection of papers from the Poincare Project of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, bringing together an international group of scholars with new assessments of Henri Poincare's philosophy of science-both its historical impact on the foundations of science and mathematics, and its relevance to contemporary philosophical inquiry. The work of Poincare (1854-1912) extends over many fields within mathematics and mathematical physics. But his scientific work was inseparable from his groundbreaking philosophical reflections, and the scientific ferment in which he participated was inseparable from the philosophical controversies in which he played a pre-eminent part. The subsequent history of the mathematical sciences was profoundly influenced by Poincare's philosophical analyses of the relations between and among mathematics, logic, and physics, and, more generally, the relations between formal structures and the world of experience. The papers in this collection illuminate Poincare's place within his own historical context as well as the implications of his work for ours.
Table of Contents
- Preface.- Introduction
- Robert DiSalle and Maria de Paz.- Part I Poincare's Philosophy of Science.- 1 Portrait of Henri Poincare as a young philosopher: the formative years (1860-1873)
- Laurent Rollet.- 2 The Invention of Convention
- Janet Folina.- 3 The third way epistemology: A re-characterization of Poincare's conventionalism
- Maria de Paz.- 4 Poincare, Indifferent Hypotheses and Metaphysics
- Antonio Videira.- Part II Poincare on the Foundations of Mathematics.- 5 Poincare in Goettingen
- Reinhard Kahle.- 6 Poincare on the Principles of the Calculus
- Augusto J. Franco de Oliveira.- 7 Does the French Connection (Poincare, Lautman) provide some insights regarding the thesis that meta-mathematics is an exception to the slogan that mathematics concerns structures?
- Gerhard Heinzmann.- Part III Poincare on the Foundations of Physics.- 8 Henri Poincare: The status of mechanical explanations and the foundations of statistical mechanics
- Joao Principe.- 9 Poincare: A scientist inspired by his philosophy
- Isabella Serra.- 10 Poincare on the construction of space-time
- Robert DiSalle.- Contributors.- Index.
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