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Historical Pragmatics - Philosophical Essays (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Historical Pragmatics - Philosophical Essays (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 155
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For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E. Butts
have been a notable and welcome part of European and North American
philosophy. A few years ago, James Robert Brown and Jiirgen
Mittelstrass feted Professor Butts with a volume entitled An
Intimate Relation (Boston Studies vol. 116, 1989), essays by
twenty-six philosophers and historians of the sciences. And that
joining of philosophers and historians was impressive evidence of
the 'intimate relation' between historical illumination and
philosophical understanding which is characteristic of Butts
throughout his work. Not alone, Butts has been, and is, one of this
generation's most incisive thinkers, devoted to responsible textual
scholarship and equally responsible imaginative interpretation.
Brown and Mittelstrass said that "throughout his writings, science,
its philosophy, and its history have been treated as a seamless
web," and I would add only that philosophy per se is a part of the
web too. Here in this book before us are the results, a lovely
collection from the work of Robert Butts, who is for so many of his
colleagues, students and readers, Mr. HPS, the model philosophical
historian and historical philosopher of the sciences. July 1993
Robert S. Cohen Center for Philosophy and History of Science,
Boston University TABLE OF CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE IX
INTRODUCTION Xl PART I EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 1 1. Some
tactics in Galileo's propaganda for the mathematization of
scientific experience 3 2.
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