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New Perspectives on Galileo

Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975

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  1. Robert E. Butts

    1. Department of Philosophy, the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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  2. Joseph C. Pitt

    1. Department of Philosophy and Religion, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 14)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Galileo’s Scientific Method: A Reexamination

    • Winifred Lovell Wisan
    Pages 1-57

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

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 59-85

  4. Galileo Galilei and the Doctores Parisienses

    • William A. Wallace
    Pages 87-138

  5. Descartes as Critic of Galileo

    • William R. Shea
    Pages 139-159

  6. Galileo and the Causes

    • Peter Machamer
    Pages 161-180

  7. Galileo: Causation and the Use of Geometry

    • Joseph C. Pitt
    Pages 181-195

  8. Galileo’s Matter Theory

    • H. E. Le Grand
    Pages 197-208

  9. The Conception of Science in Galileo’s Work

    • Ernan McMullin
    Pages 209-257

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 259-264
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Robert E. Butts

  • Department of Philosophy and Religion, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

    Joseph C. Pitt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Perspectives on Galileo

  • Book Subtitle: Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975

  • Editors: Robert E. Butts, Joseph C. Pitt

  • Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9799-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1978

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0859-5Published: 28 February 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0891-5Published: 28 February 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9799-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 264

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general

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