Disciplines
Continental Philosophy | Philosophy | Philosophy of Science
Abstract
As representatives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century empiricism and positivism, the particular names Ernst Mach (1838–1916), Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) and Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) have of course and as already noted much more than a merely historical significance. In analytic philosophy of science, an ongoing tradition of reinterpretations of their work continues to influence the current linguistic or theoretical crisis in analytic philosophy and semiotics - semantics of scientific theory (Duhem not only as represented by W.V.O.Quine but also Stanley Jaki) as well as, on the other hand, the current emphasis on experiment representing the counter-absolutist turn to the history (and historiography) and practice of science in the philosophy of science (specifically Mach, as represented by Feyerabend and others, and Bachelard — and in routine conjunction with analyses of Michel Foucault — for Bruno Latour, Ian Hacking, Mary Tiles, Gary Gutting).
Recommended Citation
Babich, Babette, "Continental Philosophy of Science: Mach, Duhem, and Bachelard" (2003). Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections. 5.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/phil_babich/5
