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What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays

  • Authors
  • Norwood Russell Hanson
  • Stephen Toulmin
  • Harry Woolf
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Part of the Synthese Library book series (SYLI, volume 38)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages I-XII
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  2. Philosophy of Science

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 3-49
    3. On Elementary Particle Theory
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 50-59
    4. Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 60-74
    5. Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 75-99

  3. History of Science

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 101-101
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    2. Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 103-126
    3. The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 127-138

  4. General Philosphy

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 139-139
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    2. On Being in Two Places at Once
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 141-154
    3. Copernicus’ Rôle in Kant’s Revolution
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 155-164
    4. It’s Actual, So It’s Possible
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 165-177
    5. On Having the Same Visual Experiences
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 178-189
    6. Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 190-212

  5. Logic

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 213-213
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    2. Imagining the Impossible
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 215-221
    3. On the Impossibility of any Future Metaphysics
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 222-233
    4. Good Inductive Reasons
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 234-248
    5. A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 249-273
    6. The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 274-287
    7. The Idea of a Logic of Discovery
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 288-300

  6. Religion

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 300-300
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    2. The Agnostic’s Dilemma
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 303-308
    3. What I don’t Believe
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 309-331

  7. The Theory of Flight

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 333-333
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    2. Introduction
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 335-336
    3. Lecture One The Discovery of Air
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 337-357
    4. Lecture Two The Shape of An Idea
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 358-374
    5. Lecture III The Idea of a Shape
      Norwood Russell Hanson
      Pages 375-390

About this book

Keywords

Immanuel Kant analogy event evolution experience future history history of literature history of science logic metaphysics philosophy philosophy of science physics reason

Editors and affiliations

  • Stephen Toulmin
    • 1
  • Harry Woolf
    • 2
  1. 1.Michigan State UniversityUSA
  2. 2.Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3108-0
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1971
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-94-010-3110-3
  • Online ISBN 978-94-010-3108-0
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