Weinert Copernicus, Darwin and Freud

Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0494-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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Using Copernicanism, Darwinism, and Freudianism as examples ofscientific traditions, Copernicus, Darwin and Freud takes aphilosophical look at these three revolutions in thought toillustrate the connections between science and philosophy.
* Shows how these revolutions in thought lead to philosophicalconsequences
* Provides extended case studies of Copernicanism, Darwinism, andFreudianism
* Integrates the history of science and the philosophy of sciencelike no other text
* Covers both the philosophy of natural and social science in onevolume

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinert, Friedel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
I. Nicolaus Copernicus: The Loss of Centrality.
1. Ptolemy and Copernicus.
2. A Clash of Two Worldviews.
3. The Heliocentric Worldview.
4. Copernicus was not a Scientific Revolutionary.
5. The Transition to Newton.
6. Some Philosophical Lessons.
7. Copernicus and Scientific Revolutions.
8. The Anthropic Principle: A Reversal of the CopernicanTurn?.
Reading List.
Essay Questions.
II. Charles Darwin: The Loss of Rational Design.
1. Darwin and Copernicus.
2. Views of Organic Life.
3. Fossil Discoveries.
4. Darwin's Revolution.
5. Philosophical Matters.
6. A Question of Method.
Reading List.
Essay Questions.
III. Sigmund Freud: The Loss of Transparency.
1. Copernicus, Darwin and Freud.
2. Some Views of Humankind.
3. Scientism and the Freudian Model of Personality.
4. The Social Sciences beyond Freud.
5. Evolution and the Social Sciences.
6. Freud and Revolutions in Thought.
Reading List.
Essay Questions.
Name Index.
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Friedel Weinert is Professor of Philosophy at Bradford University and a former Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the LSE in London. He holds a PhD in Philosophy, a BA in Sociology, and a BSc in Physics. Dr. Weinert is the editor of Laws of Nature (1995), the author of The Scientist as Philosopher (2004) and chief editor of the forthcoming Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.