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Fifty years have passed since Norwood Russell Hanson's unexpected
death, yet he remains an important voice in philosophy of science.
This book is a revised and expanded edition of a collection of
Hanson's essays originally published in 1971, edited by Stephen
Toulmin and Harry Woolf. The new volume features a comprehensive
introduction by Matthew Lund (Rowan University) and two new essays.
The first is "Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of
Science", originally published as a posthumous book by Harper and
Row. This essay, written near the end of Hanson's life, represents
his mature philosophy of science. The second new addition, Hanson's
essay "The Trial of Galileo", is something of a "lost" work - it
was only published in a small run collection on famous trials and
was left out of the published lists of Hanson's works. Ever the
outspoken firebrand, Hanson found many lessons and warnings from
Galileo's trial that were relevant to Cold War America. This volume
not only contains Hanson's best-known work in history and
philosophy of science, but also highlights the breadth of his
philosophical thought. Hanson balanced extreme versatility with a
unified approach to conceptual and philosophical problems. Hanson's
central insight is that philosophy and science both strive to
render the world intelligible -- the various concepts central to
our attempts to make sense of the world are interdependent, and
cannot operate, or even be fully understood, independently. The
essays included in this collection present Hanson's thinking on
religious belief, theory, observation, meaning, cosmology,
modality, logic, and philosophy of mind. This collection also
includes Hanson's lectures on the theory of flight, Hanson's
greatest passion.
Norwood Russell Hanson was one of the most important philosophers
of science of the post-war period. Hanson brought Wittgensteinian
ordinary language philosophy to bear on the concepts of science,
and his treatments of observation, discovery, and the
theory-ladenness of scientific facts remain central to the
philosophy of science. Additionally, Hanson was one of philosophy's
great personalities, and his sense of humor and charm come through
fully in the pages of Perception and Discovery. Perception and
Discovery, originally published in 1969, is Hanson's posthumous
textbook in philosophy of science. The book focuses on the
indispensable role philosophy plays in scientific thinking.
Perception and Discovery features Hanson's most complete and mature
account of theory-laden observation, a discussion of conceptual and
logical boundaries, and a detailed treatment of the epistemological
features of scientific research and scientific reasoning. This book
is of interest to scholars of philosophy of science, particularly
those concerned with Hanson's thought and the development of the
discipline in the middle of the 20th century. However, even fifty
years after Hanson's early death, Perception and Discovery still
has a great deal to offer all readers interested in science.
Fifty years have passed since Norwood Russell Hanson's unexpected
death, yet he remains an important voice in philosophy of science.
This book is a revised and expanded edition of a collection of
Hanson's essays originally published in 1971, edited by Stephen
Toulmin and Harry Woolf. The new volume features a comprehensive
introduction by Matthew Lund (Rowan University) and two new essays.
The first is "Observation and Explanation: A Guide to Philosophy of
Science", originally published as a posthumous book by Harper and
Row. This essay, written near the end of Hanson's life, represents
his mature philosophy of science. The second new addition, Hanson's
essay "The Trial of Galileo", is something of a "lost" work - it
was only published in a small run collection on famous trials and
was left out of the published lists of Hanson's works. Ever the
outspoken firebrand, Hanson found many lessons and warnings from
Galileo's trial that were relevant to Cold War America. This volume
not only contains Hanson's best-known work in history and
philosophy of science, but also highlights the breadth of his
philosophical thought. Hanson balanced extreme versatility with a
unified approach to conceptual and philosophical problems. Hanson's
central insight is that philosophy and science both strive to
render the world intelligible -- the various concepts central to
our attempts to make sense of the world are interdependent, and
cannot operate, or even be fully understood, independently. The
essays included in this collection present Hanson's thinking on
religious belief, theory, observation, meaning, cosmology,
modality, logic, and philosophy of mind. This collection also
includes Hanson's lectures on the theory of flight, Hanson's
greatest passion.
Norwood Russell Hanson was one of the most important philosophers
of science of the post-war period. Hanson brought Wittgensteinian
ordinary language philosophy to bear on the concepts of science,
and his treatments of observation, discovery, and the
theory-ladenness of scientific facts remain central to the
philosophy of science. Additionally, Hanson was one of philosophy's
great personalities, and his sense of humor and charm come through
fully in the pages of Perception and Discovery. Perception and
Discovery, originally published in 1969, is Hanson's posthumous
textbook in philosophy of science. The book focuses on the
indispensable role philosophy plays in scientific thinking.
Perception and Discovery features Hanson's most complete and mature
account of theory-laden observation, a discussion of conceptual and
logical boundaries, and a detailed treatment of the epistemological
features of scientific research and scientific reasoning. This book
is of interest to scholars of philosophy of science, particularly
those concerned with Hanson's thought and the development of the
discipline in the middle of the 20th century. However, even fifty
years after Hanson's early death, Perception and Discovery still
has a great deal to offer all readers interested in science.
Originally published in 1963, The Concept of the Positron forms a
detailed analysis of quantum theory. Whilst it is not as well known
as Professor Hanson's previous book, Patterns of Discovery (1958),
the text has many interesting aspects. In many ways it goes further
than Hanson's earlier work in approaching the problems of theory
competition and the rationality of science, topics that have since
become central to the philosophy of science. It is also notable for
a rigorous and forthright defence of the Copenhagen Interpretation.
Taken together, the ideas presented in this book constitute a
first-rate achievement in the history and philosophy of science.
This paperback reissue comes with a new preface from Matthew Lund,
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies at
Rowan University.
Philosophers of science have given considerable attention to the
logic of completed scientific systems. In this 1958 book, Professor
Hanson turns to an equally important but comparatively neglected
subject, the philosophical aspects of research and discovery. He
shows that there is a logical pattern in finding theories as much
as in using established theories to make deductions and
predictions, and he sets out the features of this pattern with the
help of striking examples in the history of science.
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