Controversy Spaces

Name: Controversy Spaces | A model of scientific and philosophical change
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A model of scientific and philosophical change

Oscar Nudler(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 15. September 2011

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Controversy Spaces
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Title page
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Table of contents
Introduction
1. On the model of controversy spaces
2. On the contents of this book
Part I. The model of controversy spaces
Chapter 1. Controversy spaces
1. Introduction
2. Scientific controversies: two opposed models
3. Philosophical controversies: Scandal of reason?
4. The model of controversy spaces
5. Concluding remarks
References
Part II. Controversy spaces in the history of philosophy
Chapter 2. Historiographic refocalization and change in the historicity regime
1. Introduction
2. Three historiographic controversies and the model of controversy spaces
2.1 The Methodenstreit
2.2 The controversy on "the long term" (longue durée)
2.3 The controversy over narrativism
3. The representation of the past in the light of traumatic events and the ethical-legal turn in history
3.1 The weak flank of narration
3.2 The notion of history in the present time and its legal matrix
3.3 The singularity of the Shoah as refocalization and its impact on the narrative controversy
3.4 Historiographic refocalization and change in the historicity regime
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 3. A brief history of supervenience in the controversy space of recent philosophy of mind
1. Introduction
2. Supervenience before its arrival to the philosophy of mind
3. An overview of philosophy of mind before the 70's
4. Supervenience enters the scene of philosophy of mind
5. The supervenience frenzy in the 80's
6. Why supervenience lost popularity
7. Conclusion
References
Part III. Controversy spaces in the history of science
Chapter 4. The problem of irreversibility, from Fourier to Chaos theory
1. Introduction
2. Historical background
2.1 The science of heat
2.2 Maxwell's distribution law
2.3 The program of Boltzmann
3. The first stage of the controversy space
3.1 The criticisms of Loschmidt and Zermelo
3.2 The statistical interpretation of the Second Law
3.3 The controversy space at the end of the 19th century
3.4 Gibbs and the epistemic interpretation of irreversibility
3.5 The initial structure of the controversy space
3.6 The conformation of a wide controversy space
4. Conceptual blockage and unblocking
4.1 Blockage of a controversy space
4.2 The "discovery" of instability
4.3 Factors leading to unblocking
5. The second stage of the controversy space
5.1 The present state of the debate
5.2 The new structure of the controversy space
5.3 Refocalization versus substitution
6. Contributions to the model
6.1 The core of a controversy space
6.2 From controversies to controversy spaces
7. Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 5. The relation between Chemistry and Physics
1. Origins and historical development of the debate about the relation between chemistry and physics.
2. Conceptual framework of the controversy space: Epistemological and ontological reductions
3. The debate about epistemological reduction
4. Ontological reduction: A shared assumption
5. An incipient perspective: The rejection of ontological reduction
6. The case of atomic orbitals
7. The debate in the light of the model of controversy spaces
8. Conclusion
References
Chapter 6. Jacques Rohault's system of natural philosophy
1. Introduction
2. Natural philosophy and the vicissitudes of a textbook
3. Rohault: his distancing from Aristotle, his rereading of Cartesianism, and some peripheral modifications
4. Atomism and corpuscularianism
5. Samuel Clarke and his translation of Rohault's Traité de physique
6. Samuel Clarke versus Jacques Rohault: Some axes of the controversy space
7. Two notions of space and their theoretical consequences
References
Chapter 7. How DNA became an important molecule
1. Introduction: Avery's case
2. The phenomenon of bacterial transformation
3. Inference to the best explanation as an exercise in cognitive decision theory
4. The actors in Avery's case as rational agents in search of the best available explanation
4.1 What was the goal? Possible answers that prompted the research
4.2 Conflicting hypotheses. An IBE for Avery's partisans
4.3 Further research. Mirsky and the work on proteins
5. Controversy spaces in genetics and in the historiography of biology
5.1 Controversies in the field of biology
5.2 Controversies within the historiography of biology
6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 8. The development of 20th-century American linguistics as a controversy space
1. Introduction
2. The common ground of American linguistics
3. American linguistics as a controversy space: Behaviorist views
4. The background of a refocalization: The structuralist-behavioristic blockage regarding syntactic description and the notion of "language acquisition"
5. Beginnings of the generative-transformational refocalization: Grammaticality and acceptability
6. Development and permanence of the refocalization: Elaborating conceptual change
7. New blockages and new refocalizations: Sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and neurocognitive linguistics
7.1 Sociolinguistics, with special reference to William Labov
7.2 Cognitive linguistics, with special reference to George Lakoff
7.3 Neurocognitive linguistics, with special reference to Sydney Lamb
8. Recapitulation and conclusions
References
Contributors
Author index
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