The Practical Turn in Philosophy of Science

A cura di: Evandro Agazzi, Gerhard Heinzmann

The Practical Turn in Philosophy of Science

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.

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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 especially 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.

Evandro Agazzi is the current President of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science. He was Professor at the Universities of Fribourg (Switzerland), Genoa (Italy) and at present at the Panamerican University of Mexico City. His contributions concern particularly the philosophy of logic and mathematics, the philosophy of physics, general philosophy of science, the ethics of science and technology. He has published more than 80 books and over 1000 papers.
Gerhard Heinzmann is professor of philosophy at the University of Lorraine in Nancy. Director and founder (1992-2007) of the research group "Laboratoire d'Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie - Archives Henri Poincaré", he was director of the "Lorrain Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences" (MSH Lorraine) from 2007 to 2014. Editor of the "Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives" (Birkhäuser/Springer) and of the journal "Philosophia Scientiae" (Kimé), his areas of specialization are: Poincaré Studies, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Logic, French Philosophy of Science in the 20th century.

Evandro Agazzi, Gerhard Heinzmann, Introduction
Evandro Agazzi, Truth Between Semantics and Pragmatics
Alberto Cordero, Pragmatism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Fabio Minazzi, Pragmatism and Objectivity
Lena Soler, Shifts Introduced by the Practice Turn in Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science
Marco Buzzoni, The Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science: The Discovery/Justification Distinction, and the Social Dimension of Scientific Objectivity
Gerhard Heinzmann, Pragmatism and the Practical Turn in Philosophy of Mathematics: Explanatory Proofs
Paul Weingartner, Pragmatic Aspects of Tarski's Truth Condition
Hans Lenk, An Epistemological and Action-theoretical Approach to Pragmatic Realism
Vincenzo Fano, Giovanni Macchia, Robustness and The Rejection of Wegener's Continental Drift in the Thirties
Reinhard Kahle, After Hilbert and Brouwer: Bourbaki and Bishop.

Contributors: Marco Buzzoni, Alberto Cordero, Vincenzo Fano, Reinhard Kahle, Hans Lenk, Giovanni Macchia, Fabio Minazzi, Léna Soler, Paul Weingartner

Serie: Epistemologia

Subjects: Epistemology - Science Philosophy

Level: Scholarly Research

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