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INDUZIONE E FONDAZIONE. UN CASO DI STUDIO SULLA RICEZIONE TEDESCA DEL TARDO EMPIRISMO INGLESE.
- Source :
- Archivio di Storia della Cultura; 2020, Vol. 33, p399-413, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The paper aims at outlining the conceptual frame in which nineteenth-century German philosophy inherits and pursues the British debate on induction. It investigates this debate as a case study for a broader inquiry about the German reception of late British empiricism. The Mill-Whewell controversy on induction is central to the late British empiricism's project of a logic of natural sciences. It becomes significant in Germany during the second half of the nineteenth century, as a means of defining a theory of science that supports the rising anti-idealist endeavour. The paper first defines what is at stake in the Mill-Whewell controversy, then considers how the same issue is handled in Apelt's Die theorie der Induction (1854) and in Sigwart's Logik (1873-1878). It concludes that, within the German context, the understanding of this issue cannot be disconnected from a Kantian focus on the transcendental foundation of scientific knowledge, and that this characteristic perspective on induction also implies some innovative developments for induction as a scientific method, mainly concerning the relevance and use of probability and statistics in inductive methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- Italian
- ISSN :
- 11240059
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Archivio di Storia della Cultura
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147641376