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Carnap And HeideggerIn Trish Glazebrook (ed.), Heidegger on Science, State University of New York Press. pp. 113-129. 2012.
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34Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color is the outcome of a workshop, held in Leuven, Belgium, in May 2000
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6The observable: Heisenberg's philosophy of quantum mechanicsPeter Lang. 2016.Patrick Aidan Heelan’s The Observable offers the reader a completely articulated development of his 1965 philosophy of quantum physics, Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity. In this previously unpublished study dating back more than a half a century, Heelan brings his background as both a physicist and a philosopher to his reflections on Werner Heisenberg’s physical philosophy. Including considerably broader connections to the contributions of Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, and Albert Einstein, this s…Read more
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4Quantum Mechanics and the Social SciencesIn Babette Babich (ed.), Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science: Introduction, De Gruyter. pp. 51-62. 2017.
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7Science Unfettered: A Philosophical Study in Sociohistorical Ontology (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (2): 403-404. 2001.The authors’ aim in this book is “to understand—from a philosophical standpoint—the social and historical nature of science, more precisely, its sociability and historicity”. “This book was created within a dialogue” between the two authors, and between our “friends”—those who supported a hermeneutic stance toward the natural sciences—and our “antagonists”—those belonging to the analytic philosophy of science. The dialogue took place at the University of Pittsburgh where McGuire is a Professor o…Read more
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13This richly textured book bridges analytic and hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy of science. It features unique resources for students of the philosophy and history of quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen Interpretation, cognitive theory and the psychology of perception, the history and philosophy of art, and the pragmatic and historical relationships between religion and science.
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58The scope of hermeneutics in natural scienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 29 (2): 273-298. 1998.Hermeneutics, or interpretation, is concerned with the generation, transmission, and acceptance of meaning within the lifeworld, and was the original method of the human sciences stemming, from F. Schleiermacher and W. Dilthey. The `hermeneutic philosophy' refers mostly to Heidegger. This paper addresses natural science from the perspective of Heidegger's analysis of meaning and interpretation. Its purpose is to incorporate into the philosophy of science those aspects of historicality, culture, …Read more
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12Towards a Hermeneutic of Natural ScienceJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 3 (3): 252-260. 1972.
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9Quantum Mechanics and the Social SciencesIn Babette E. Babich (ed.), Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science, De Gruyter. pp. 51-62. 2017.
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45Heisenberg and radical theoretic changeZeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 6 (1): 113-136. 1975.Heisenberg, in constructing quantum mechanics, explicitly followed certain principles exemplified, as he believed, in Einstein's construction of the special theory of relativity which for him was the paradigm for radical theoretic change in physics. These were the principles of scientific realism, stability of background knowledge, E-observability, contextual re-interpretation, pragmatic continuity, model continuity, simplicity. Fifty years later, in retrospect, Heisenberg added the following tw…Read more
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29Comments on professor Kisiel's commentaryZeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 5 (1): 135-137. 1974.
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80Hermeneutics of experimental science in the context of the life-worldZeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 5 (1): 123-124. 1974.
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9Quantum mechanics and objectivityM. Nijhoff. 1965.Quantum mechanics has raised in an acute form three problems which go to the heart of man's relationship with nature through experimental science: (r) the public objectivity of science, that is, its value as a universal science for all investigators; (2) the empirical objectivity of scientific objects, that is, man's ability to construct a precise or causal spatio-temporal model of microscopic systems; and finally (3), the formal objectivity of science, that is, its value as an expression of wha…Read more
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118Husserl's later philosophy of natural sciencePhilosophy of Science 54 (3): 368-390. 1987.Husserl argues in the Crisis that the prevalent tradition of positive science in his time had a philosophical core, called by him "Galilean science", that mistook the quest for objective theory with the quest for truth. Husserl is here referring to Gottingen science of the Golden Years. For Husserl, theory "grows" out of the "soil" of the prescientific, that is, pretheoretical, life-world. Scientific truth finally is to be sought not in theory but rather in the pragmatic-perceptual praxes of mea…Read more
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28The Role of Subjectivity in Natural ScienceProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 43 (n/a): 185-194. 1969.
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35The Logic of Framework TranspositionsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 11 (3): 314-334. 1971.
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20Quantum mechanics and the social sciences: After hermeneuticsScience & Education 4 (2): 127-136. 1995.
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44Comments to heelans thesisJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 6 (1): 137-138. 1975.
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56Hermeneutical Realism and Scientific ObservationPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.Using the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology, and against the background of the principle that the real is what is or can be given in a public way in perception as a state of the World, and of the thesis established elsewhere that acts of perception are always epistemic, contextual, and hermeneutical, the writer proposes that objects of scientific observation are perceptual objects, states of the World described by theoretical scientific terms and, therefore, real. This thesis of Hermeneutical…Read more
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Experiment as Fulfillment of TheoryIn D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Lester Embree & Jitendranath Mohanty (eds.), Phenomenology and Indian philosophy, Indian Council of Philosophical Research in Association With Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. pp. 169--184. 1992.
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20The primacy of perception and the cognitive paradigm : Reply to de MeySocial Epistemology 1 (4). 1987.
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11Towards a hermeneutic of natural scienceJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 3 (3): 252-260. 1972.
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24Nietzsche e la scienza. Arte, vita, conoscenza (review)New Nietzsche Studies 2 (3-4): 134-135. 1998.
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34Horizon, Objectivity and Reality in the Physical SciencesInternational Philosophical Quarterly 7 (3): 375-412. 1967.
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46The Search for Perfect Science in the WestThought: Fordham University Quarterly 43 (2): 165-186. 1968.
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35Charles W. Harvey: 'Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Foundations of Natural Science'. (review)Husserl Studies 8 (1): 57. 1991.
Patrick A. Heelan
(1926 - 2015)
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Physical Science |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Continental Philosophy |