Evandro Agazzi, Gerhard Heinzmann (eds.), The Practical Turn in Philosophy of Science, Milano : Franco Angeli, coll. Epistemologia, 2015. [Présentation sur le site de l'éditeur]
Philosophy of science as a specialized discipline was born at the beginning of the twentieth century as a reaction to the "crisis" that was affecting especailly mathematics and physics in their conceptual and logical "foundations". The philosophical investigation on the said foundations took the shape of an epistemology and methodology of science and, for historical reasons, the tools used were those of linguistic analysis and mathematical logic. This was in keeping with the formalistic approach to science inspired by the primacy attributed to the axiomatic method not only in mathematics, but also ideally in all rigorous sciences. After Gödel’s results the limitations of the three principal “foundational schools” became more and more evident, while the “working scientists” continued their activity caring more for the acquisition of “results” than for logical rigor. This “pragmatic turn” was perceivable also in philosophy of science due to an influence of pragmatism that replaced the previous influence of logical empiricism and analytic philosophy.
Table des matières :
Introduction
by Evandro Agazzi and Gerhard Heinzmann
Truth Between Semantics and Pragmatics
by Evandro Agazzi
Pragmatism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Alberto Cordero
Pragmatism and Objectivity
by Fabio Minazzi
Shifts Introduced by the Practice Turn in Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science
by Lena Soler
The Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science: The Discovery/Justification Distinction, and the Social Dimension of Scientific Objectivity
by Marco Buzzoni
Pragmatism and the Practical Turn in Philosophy of Mathematics: Explanatory Proofs
by Gerhard Heinzmann
Pragmatic Aspects of Tarski’s Truth Condition
by Paul Weingartner
An Epistemological and Action-theoretical Approach to Pragmatic Realism
by Hans Lenk
Robustness and The Rejection of Wegener’s Continental Drift in the Thirties
by Vincenzo Fano and Giovanni Macchia
After Hilbert and Brouwer: Bourbaki and Bishop
by Reinhard Kahle