Philosophy and Conceptual History of Science in Taiwan
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Philosophy and Conceptual History of Science in Taiwan: (141 Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)


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Scholarly studies of mathematics and the sciences, carried out by philos­ ophers and historians in Taiwan in recent years, have two main goals: first, positive and critical participation in the logical analysis of scientific theories and scientific explanation; and second, conceptual clarification joined with faithful historical investigation of the sciences of traditional and modem China. In this book, Professors Cheng-hung Lin and Daiwie Fu have gathered fine representative essays from both endeavors. Their two introductory discussions guide the reader in three ways. First, we have insightful remarks concerning the development of science studies in Taiwan during the past three decades. Then we see the place of such studies, particularly those in the logic and methodology of science, in the philosophy of science as that discipline has evolved in the West in recent years. Finally we have an account of the changes that have occurred among philosophers and historians of Chinese science as they have turned away from an assump­ tion of Western definitions of scientific achievement, a tum that is common to Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese and Western scholars.

Table of Contents:
I/Philosophy of Science.- On the Analytic and the Synthetic.- Solutions to the Paradoxes of Confirmation, Goodman’s Paradox, and Two New Theories of Confirmation.- Hempel on Inductive Shortcomings in Craigian Method.- Confirmation Logic and Its Applications.- Popper’s Logical Analysis of Basic Statements.- The Evolution of Science: Theoretic Recombination as a Selection Process.- Eliminative Materialism and Connectionism.- II/Conceptual History of Science.- Problem Domain, Taxonomy, and Comparativity in Histories of Science — With a Case Study in the Comparative History of ‘Optics’.- From One Gnomon to Two Gnomons: A Methodological Study of the Method of Double Differences.- Chinese Mathematics at the Turn of the 19th Century: Jiao Xun, Wang Lai and Li Rui.- Bao Qi-Shou (???) and His Polyhedral Hun Yuan Tu (???).- The Development of Geology in Republican China, 1912–1937.- Local Contexts, Strategies and Sinicization: A Case Study of the Sinicization Formulation in the Social Sciences of Taiwan (1970s—1980s).- Notes on Contributors.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780792317661
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 276
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0792317661
  • Publisher Date: 31 Dec 1992
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 141 Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science


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