Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science

1. Introduction: Discourse on a New Method, or a Manifesto for a Synthetic Approach to History and Philosophy of Science (Mary Domski and Michael Dickson)......Page 2
PART I: THE NEWTONIAN ERA......Page 22
2. The Axiomatic Tradition in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics (Domenico Bertoloni Meli)......Page 23
3. The Reduction to the Pristine State in Robert Boyle's Corpuscular Philosophy (William R. Newman)......Page 42
4. Newton as Historically-Minded Philosopher (Mark Domski)......Page 63
5. Newton's Forces in Kant's Critique (Andrew Janiak)......Page 88
PART II: KANT......Page 108
6. Kant and Lambert on Geometrical Postulates in the Reform of Metaphysics (Alison Laywine)......Page 109
7. Two Studies in the Reception of Kant's Philosophy of Arithmetic (Charles Parsons)......Page 130
8. Philosophy, Geometry, and Logic in Leibniz, Wolff, and the Early Kant (Daniel Sutherland)......Page 149
9. Kant on Attractive and Repulsive Force: The Balancing Argument (Daniel Warren)......Page 187
10. Mathematical Method in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel (Frederick C. Beiser)......Page 236
PART III: LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND NEO-KANTIANISM......Page 252
11. Validity in the Cultural Sciences? (John Michael Krois)......Page 253
12. Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman: Kantian or Hegelian Dynamics of Reason? (Alan Richardson)......Page 271
13. From Mach to Carnap: A Tale of Confusion (Paul Pojman)......Page 287
14. Quine's Objection and Carnap's Aufbau (Thomas Ricketts)......Page 302
15. "Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural." Einstein, General Relativity, and the Contingent A Priori (Don Howard)......Page 323
PART IV: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS......Page 346
16. How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity (John D. Norton)......Page 347
17. The Paracletes of Quantum Gravity (James Mattingly)......Page 375
18. Beauty Doth of Itself Persuade: Dirac on Quantization, Mathematical Beauty, and Theoretical Understanding (Michael Dickson)......Page 393
19. Theory, Coordination, and Empirical Meaning in Modern Physics (Scott Tanona)......Page 410
20. The "Relativized A Priori": An Appreciation and Critique (Thomas Ryckman)......Page 442
PART V: POST-KUHNIAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE......Page 458
21. The Role of the Foundations of Mathematics in the Development of Carnap's Theory of Theories (William Demopoulos)......Page 459
22. The Construction of Reason: Kant, Carnap, Kuhn, and Beyond (Richard Creath)......Page 479
23. How Should We Describe Scientific Change? Or: A Neo-Popperian Reads Friedman (Noretta Koertge)......Page 496
24. Synthesis, the Synthetic A Priori, and the Origins of Modern Space-Time Theory (Robert DiSalle)......Page 508
25. Back to "Back to Kant" (Mark Wilson)......Page 537
PART VI: CONCLUDING ESSAY......Page 553
26. Synthetic History Reconsidered (Michael Friedman)......Page 554
The Newtonian Era......Page 556
Kant......Page 567
From Kant to Carnap - Newton to Einstein......Page 603
Transcendental Philosophy and Modern Physics: Neo-Kantianism, Logical Empiricism, and Phenomenology......Page 660
Synthetic History and the Dynamics of Reason......Page 678
Notes......Page 711
References......Page 784
Index......Page 796