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Hegel and the Sciences

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Center for Philosophy & History of Science, Boston University, USA

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  2. Marx W. Wartofsky

    1. Department of Philosophy Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 64)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introductory Remarks to the Symposium on Hegel and the Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Scholar, The Liberal Ideal, and the Philosophy of Science

      • Peter Bertocci
      Pages 3-10

  3. The Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Conceptual Analysis and Scientific Theory in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature (With Special Reference to Hegel’s Optics)

      • Gerd Buchdahl
      Pages 13-36

    3. A Comment on Buchdahl’s ‘Conceptual Analysis and Scientific Theory In Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature (With Special Reference To Hegel’s Optics)’

      • John J. Compton
      Pages 37-40

    4. The Chemical System of Substances, Forces and Processes in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature and The Science of His Time

      • Dietrich Von Engelhardt
      Pages 41-54

    5. Hegel and the Celestial Mechanics of Newton and Einstein

      • Henry Paolucci
      Pages 55-85

    6. The Hegelian Treatment of Biology and Life

      • John N. Findlay
      Pages 87-100

    7. More Comments on the Place of the Organic in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature

      • George Di Giovanni
      Pages 101-107

    8. Hegel and the Organic View of Nature

      • Milič Čapek
      Pages 109-121

    9. Hegel’s Philosophical Understanding of Illness

      • Dietrich Von Engelhardt
      Pages 123-141

    10. On Hegel’s Significance for the Social Sciences

      • Rüdiger Bubner
      Pages 143-159

    11. Hegel’s Conception of Psychology

      • Murray Greene
      Pages 161-191

  4. Philosophy and Methodology of Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. The Dialectical Structure of Scientific Thinking

      • Errol Harris
      Pages 195-213

    3. Is the Progress of Science Dialectical?

      • Ernan McMullin
      Pages 215-239

    4. Some ‘Moments’ of Hegel’s Relation to the Sciences

      • Herman Ley
      Pages 241-270

    5. Hegel’s ‘Deduction of the Concept of Science’

      • Kenley Royce Dove
      Pages 271-281

    6. Theory and Praxis and the Beginning of Science

      • Daniel Cook
      Pages 283-286
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About this book

To the scientists and philosophers of our time, Hegel has been either a ne­ glected or a provocative thinker, a source of irrelevant dark metaphysics or of complex but insightful analysis. His influence upon the work of natural scientists has seemed minimal, in the main; and his stimulus to the nascent sciences of society and to psychology has seemed to be as often an obstacle as an encouragement. Nevertheless his philosophical analysis of knowledge and the knowing process, of concepts and their evolutionary formation, of rationality in its forms and histories, of the stages of empirical awareness and human practice, all set within his endless inquiries into cultural formations from the entire sweep of human experience, must, we believe, be confronted by anyone who wants to understand the scientific consciousness. Indeed, we may wish to situate the changing theories of nature, and of humankind in nature, within a philosophical account of men and women as social practi­ tioners and as sensing, thinking, feeling centers of privacy; and then we will see the work of Hegel as a major effort to mediate between the purest of epistemological investigations and the most practical of the political and the religious. This book, long delayed to our deep regret, derives from a Symposium on Hegel and the Sciences which was sponsored jointly by the Hegel Society of America and the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science a decade ago.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Philosophy & History of Science, Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

  • Department of Philosophy Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA

    Marx W. Wartofsky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hegel and the Sciences

  • Editors: Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6233-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0726-0Published: 31 January 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6235-4Published: 12 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6233-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 374

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, History, general

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