Science, method, and argument in Galileo : philosophical, historical, and historiographical essays / Maurice A. Finocchiaro.
Finocchiaro, Maurice A., 1942- author.
2021
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Title Science, method, and argument in Galileo : philosophical, historical, and historiographical essays / Maurice A. Finocchiaro.
Author Finocchiaro, Maurice A., 1942- author.
ISBN 9783030771478 (electronic bk.)
3030771474 (electronic bk.)
9783030771461 (print)
3030771466
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77147-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 475 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-77147-8 doi
Call Number BC108
Dewey Decimal Classification 160
Summary This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo's life and thought--his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as "father of modern science." These republished essays include many hard to find articles, out of print works, and chapters which are not available online. The collection provides an excellent resource of the author's lifelong dedication to the subject. Thus, the book contains critical analyses of some key Galilean arguments about the laws of falling bodies and the Copernican hypothesis of the earth's motion. There is also a group of chapters in which Galileo's argumentation is compared and contrasted with that of other figures such as Socrates, Karl Marx, Giordano Bruno, and his musicologist father Vincenzo Galilei. The chapters on Galileo's trial illustrate an approach to the science-vs-religion issue which Finocchiaro labels 'para-clerical' and conceptualizes in terms of a judicious consideration of arguments for and against Galileo and the Church. Other essays examine argumentation about Galileo's life and thought by the major Galilean scholars of recent decades. The book will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, logic, philosophy of science, history of science, history of religion, philosophy of religion, argumentation, rhetoric, and communication studies
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 31, 2021).
Series Argumentation library ; v. 40. 2215-1907
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PART I: GALILEAN ARGUMENTS
Chapter 1. Rejection of Space-Proportional Speed
Chapter 2. A Galilean Fallacy of Equivocation
Chapter 3. Explanation of the Law of Squares
Chapter 4. Arguments for and against the Earth's Motion
Chapter 5. Critique of the Ship-Experiment Argument
PART II: COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS
Chapter 6. Socrates, Galileo, and Marx as Critical Thinkers
Chapter 7. The Trials of Bruno and of Galileo
Chapter 8. Galileo's Daughter: The Book, the Movie, the Facts, and the Issues
Chapter 9. Galileo's Father: Method and Argument in Musicology and Astrophysics
Chapter 10. Painting vs. Sculpture in the Cigoli Letter
PART III: FOR OR AGAINST GALILEO OR THE CHURCH
Chapter 11. The Berkeley Para-clerical Approach
Chapter 12. Prison and Torture as False but Well-Founded Myths
Chapter 13. Galileo under Fire and under Patronage
Chapter 14. Religion vs. Science and Science vs. Religion: McMullin on the Church and Galileo
Chapter 15. Legal Formalities and Improprieties: Mayer on the Inquisition Trying Galileo
Chapter 16. Charity, Logic, and Para-clericalism: Agassi on Explaining Galileo's Trial
Chapter 17. Authenticity vs. Accuracy vs. Legitimacy: Pagano on the Vatican Documents
PART IV: GALILEAN SCHOLARSHIP
Chapter 18. Shapere's Galileo: Philosophy vs. History vs. Erudition
Chapter 19. Koyré's Études galiléennes: Critical Reasoning vs. A Priori Rationalism
Chapter 20. Feyerabend's Against Method: Rationalism vs. Pseudo-irrationalism
Chapter 21. Wallace's Galileo and His Sources: Suppositional vs. Demonstrative Reasoning
Chapter 22. Drake's Essays on Galileo: Science vs. Philosophy
Chapter 23. Camerota's Galileo Galilei e la cultura scientifica: Disobedience vs. Heresy
Chapter 24. Crombie's Galileo's Natural Philosophy: Disputation vs. Demonstration vs. Argumentation.

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