New Perspectives on Galileo: Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975 / Edition 1

by Robert E. Butts, Joseph C. Pitt

Overview

The essays in this volume (except for the contribution of Dr. Le Grand) are extremely revised versions of papers originally delivered at a workshop on Galileo held in Blacksburg, Virginia in October, 1975. The meeting was organized by Professor Joseph Pitt and sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, The College of Arts and Sciences, and the Division of Research of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The papers that follow deal with problems OIf Galileo's philosophy of science, specific and general problems connected with his methodology, and with historical and conceptual questions concerning the relationship of his work to that of contemporaries and both earlier and later scientists. New perspectives take many forms. In this book the 'newness' has, for the most part, two forms. First, in the papers by Wisan, Shea, Le Grand and Wallace (the concerns will also appear in some of the other contributions), greatly enriched historical discoveries of how Galileo's science and its method­ ology developed are provided. It should be stressed that these papers are attempts to recapture a deep sense of the kind of science Galileo was creating. Other papers in the volume, for example, those by McMullin, Machamer, Butts and Pitt, underscore the importance of this historical venture by discussing various aspects of the philosophical background of Galileo's thought. The historical and philosophical evaluations and analyses compliment one another.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789027708915
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	02/28/1978
Series:	The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science , #14
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Galileo’s Scientific Method: a Reexamination.- Some Tactics in Galileo’s Propaganda for the Mathematization of Scientific Experience.- Galileo Galilei and the Doctores Parisienses.- Descartes as Critic of Galileo.- Galileo and the Causes.- Galileo: Causation and the Use of Geometry.- Galileo’s Matter Theory.- The Conception of Science in Galileo’s Work.