Science, Method, and Argument in Galileo: Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Essays
Introduction -- 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 Arg...
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2021.
Cham Imprint: Springer 2021. |
| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series/Journal: | Argumentation Library
40 Springer eBook Collection |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion—History
B Logic B History |
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| Summary: | Introduction -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index. 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. |
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| ISBN: | 3030771474 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77147-8 |