| Title |
E.A. Burtt, historian and philosopher : a study of the author of The metaphysical foundations of modern physical science / by Diane Davis Villemaire. |
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| Imprint |
Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic, ©2002. |
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| Description |
x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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| Series |
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 226.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index. |
| Contents |
Columbia University in the 1920's: The Young Radical Philosophers -- The Idealists: James Harvey and the Genetic Method of History, John Dewey and Reflective Thinking -- The Realists Who Sharpened the Edges of Burtt's Ideas -- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science -- The Chicago School of Pragmatism -- Religious Humanism -- Burtt's New Philosophy of Mind -- The Genesis of Hypothesis and the Metaphysics of Empirical Theory -- Burtt's Newton and the Debate Over the Rationality of Early Modern Science -- What Happened to the Metaphysical Foundations and Burtt's Interest in the History of Science -- Burtt's Philosophy After 1935 -- A Return to the Ideas in the Metaphysical Foundations. |
| Subject(s) |
Burtt, Edwin A. (Edwin Arthur), 1892-1989.
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Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
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