Idealization X:

The Richness of Idealization.
NOWAKOWA, Izabella and Leszek NOWAK (Eds.)
Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 2000 519 pp.
Hb: 90-420-1411-3 Hfl. 250 / US$ 106


Series:
Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 69





Contents: Preface. Introduction. Science as a Caricature of Reality. Part I
THREE METHODOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONS. 1. Galileo-Newton's Model of Free Fall. 2.
Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. 3. Marx's Theory of Reproduction. Part
II THE METHOD OF IDEALIZATION. 4. The Idealizational Approach to Science: A
New Survey. 5. On the Concept of Dialectical Correspondence. 6. On Inner
Concretization. A Certain Generalization of the Notions of Concretization
and Dialectical Correspondence. 7. Concretization in Qualitative Contexts.
8. Law and Theory: Some Expansions. 9. On Multiplicity of Idealization. Part
III EXPLANATIONS AND APPLICATIONS. 10. The Ontology of the Idealizational
Theory. 11. Creativity in Theory-building. 12. Discovery and Correspondence.
13. The Problem of Induction. Toward an Idealizational Paraphrase. 14.
“Model(s) and “Experiment(s). An Analysis of Two Homogeneous Families of
Notions. 15. On Theories, Half-Theories, One-Fourth-Theories, etc. 16. On
Explanation and Its Fallacies. 17. Testability and Fuzziness. 18.
Constructing the Notion. 19. On Economic Modelling. 20. Ajdukiewicz, Chomsky
and the Status of the Theory of Natural Language. 21. Historical Narration.
22. The Rational Legislator. Part IV TRUTH AND IDEALIZATION. 23. A Notion of
Truth for Idealization. 24. “Truth is a System”: An Explication. 25. On the
Concept of Scope Adequacy of Laws. 26. Approximation and the Two Ideas of
Truth. 27. On the Historicity of Knowledge. Part V A GENERALIZATION OF
IDEALIZATION. 28. Abstracts Are Not Our Constructs. The Mental Constructs
Are Abstracts. 29. Metaphor and Deformation. 30. Realism, Supra-Realism and
Idealization. REFERENCES. Analytical Table of Contents. Subject Index. Index
of Names.

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