Historical Pragmatics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Early Modern Philosophy of Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Some Tactics in Galileo’s Propaganda for the Mathematization of Scientific Experience

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 3-31

   3. Leibniz on Choosing Between Rival Scientific Hypotheses

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 33-52

   4. Pragmatic Episode 1

      1. Philosophers as Professional Relativists

         • Robert E. Butts

         Pages 55-63

3. Kant’s Philosophy of Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Kant’s Schemata as Semantical Rules

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 67-78

   3. The Methodological Structure of Kant’s Metaphysics of Science

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 79-113

   4. Teleology and Scientific Method in Kant’s Critique of Judgment

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 115-132

   5. The Grammar of Reason: Hamann’s Challenge to Kant

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 133-168

   6. Pragmatic Episode 2

      1. Metaphysics, Methodology and the Pragmatic Unity of the Sciences

         • Robert E. Butts

         Pages 171-185

4. Whewell and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Necessary Truth in Whewell’s Theory of Science

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 189-233

   3. Whewell’s Logic of Induction

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 235-267

   4. Consilience of Inductions and the Problem of Conceptual Change in Science

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 269-291

   5. Whewell on Newton’s Rules of Philosophizing

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 293-312

   6. “A Purely Scientific Temper”: Victorian Expressions of the Ideal of an Autonomous Science

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 313-338

5. Back Matter

   Pages 339-370

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For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E. Butts have been a notable and welcome part of European and North American philosophy. A few years ago, James Robert Brown and Jiirgen Mittelstrass feted Professor Butts with a volume entitled An Intimate Relation (Boston Studies vol. 116, 1989), essays by twenty-six philosophers and historians of the sciences. And that joining of philosophers and historians was impressive evidence of the 'intimate relation' between historical illumination and philosophical understanding which is characteristic of Butts throughout his work. Not alone, Butts has been, and is, one of this generation's most incisive thinkers, devoted to responsible textual scholarship and equally responsible imaginative interpretation. Brown and Mittelstrass said that "throughout his writings, science, its philosophy, and its history have been treated as a seamless web", and I would add only that philosophy per se is a part of the web too. Here in this book before us are the results, a lovely collection from the work of Robert Butts, who is for so many of his colleagues, students and readers, Mr. HPS, the model philosophical historian and historical philosopher of the sciences. July 1993 Robert S. Cohen Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University TABLE OF CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE IX INTRODUCTION Xl PART I EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 1 1. Some tactics in Galileo's propaganda for the mathematization of scientific experience 3 2.

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Immanuel Kant
• experience
• knowledge
• philosophy of science
• pragmatism
• reason
• science
• theory of science

• Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

  Robert E. Butts

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