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Galileo and the Art of Reasoning

Rhetorical Foundation of Logic and Scientific Method

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  • © 1980

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Authors:
  1. Maurice A. Finocchiaro

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 61)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Logical and Methodological Critiques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Concreteness and Judgment: The Dialectical Nature of Galileo’s Methodology

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 145-166

    3. The Primacy of Reasoning: The Logical Character of Galileo’s Methodology

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 167-179

    4. The Rationality of Science and the Science of Rationality: Critique of Subjectivism

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 180-201

    5. The History of Science and the Science of History: Critique of Apriorism

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 202-223

    6. The Erudition of Logic and the Logic of Erudition: Critique of Galileo Scholarship

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 224-255

    7. The Psychology of Logic and the Logic of Psychology: Critique of the Psychology of Reasoning

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 256-272

    8. The Rhetoric of Logic and the Logic of Rhetoric: Critique of the New Rhetoric

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 273-292

    9. The Logic of Science and the Science of Logic: Toward a Science of Reasoning

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 293-307

  4. Theory of Reasoning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309
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    2. Propositional Structure: The Understanding of Reasoning

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 311-331

    3. Active Involvement: The Evaluation of Reasoning

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 332-342

    4. Galileo as a Logician: A Model and a Data Basis

      • Maurice A. Finocchiaro
      Pages 343-412
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About this book

The work of Galileo has long been important not only as a foundation of modern physics but also as a model - and perhaps the paradigmatic model - of scientific method, and therefore as a leading example of scientific rationality. However, as we know, the matter is not so simple. The range of Galileo readings is so varied that one may be led to the conclusion that it is a case of chacun a son Galileo; that here, as with the Bible, or Plato or Kant or Freud or Finnegan's Wake, the texts themselves underdetermine just what moral is to be pointed. But if there is no canonical reading, how can the texts be taken as evidence or example of a canonical view of scientific rationality, as in Galileo? Or is it the case, instead, that we decide a priori what the norms of rationality are and then pick through texts to fmd those which satisfy these norms? Specifically, how and on what grounds are we to accept or reject scientific theories, or scientific reasoning? If we are to do this on the basis of historical analysis of how, in fact, theories came to be accepted or rejected, how shall we distinguish 'is' from 'ought'? What follows (if anything does) from such analysis or reconstruction about how theories ought to be accepted or rejected? Maurice Finocchiaro's study of Galileo brings an important and original approach to the question of scientific rationality by way of a systematic read­

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

    Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Galileo and the Art of Reasoning

  • Book Subtitle: Rhetorical Foundation of Logic and Scientific Method

  • Authors: Maurice A. Finocchiaro

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9017-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company Dordrecht, Holland 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1094-9Published: 31 August 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1095-6Published: 31 August 1980

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9017-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 481

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general

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