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The Relativistic Deduction - Epistemological Implications of the Theory of Relativity With a Review by Albert Einstein and an Introduction by Mili? ?apek (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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The Relativistic Deduction - Epistemological Implications of the Theory of Relativity With a Review by Albert Einstein and an Introduction by Mili? ?apek (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 83
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When the author of Identity and Reality accepted Langevin's
suggestion that Meyerson "identify the thought processes" of
Einstein's relativity theory, he turned from his assured
perspective as historian of the sciences to the risky bias of
contemporary philosophical critic. But Emile Meyerson, the epis
temologist as historian, could not find a more rigorous test of his
conclusions from historical learning than the interpretation of
Einstein's work, unless perhaps he were to turn from the classical
revolution of Einstein's relativity to the non-classical quantum
theory. Meyerson captures our sympathy in all his writings: " . . .
the role of the epistemologist is . . . in following the
development of science" (250); the study of the evolution of reason
leads us to see that "man does not experience himself reasoning . .
. which is carried on unconsciously," and as the summation of his
empirical studies of the works and practices of scientists, "reason
. . . behaves in an altogether predict able way: . . . first by
making the consequent equivalent to the antecedent, and then by
actually denying all diversity in space" (202). If logic - and to
Meyerson the epistemologist is logician - is to understand reason,
then "logic proceeds a posteriori. " And so we are faced with an
empirically based Par menides, and, as we shall see, with an
ineliminable 'irrational' within science. Meyerson's story, written
in 1924, is still exciting, 60 years later."
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