Continental Philosophy of Science

Continental Philosophy of Science provides an expert guide to the major twentieth-century French and German philosophical thinking on science. The book refutes the view that twentieth-century continental thought is anti-scientific, and shows how continental thinkers offer distinctive perspectives that both complement and fruitfully interact with analytic philosophy of science. Collected here are essays on Hegel, Bergson, Cassirer, Husserl, Heidegger, Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault, Deleuze, Irigaray, and Habermas. Each essay is complemented by a key primary-source selection, including previously untranslated texts by Bergson ,Bachelard, and Canguilhem and new translations of texts by Hegel and Cassirer. In addition, the book offers a comprehensive introduction by the editor, which provides a unified interpretative survey of continental work on philosophy of science. Taken as a whole, Continental Philosophy of Science is an excellent resource for students and scholars alike, and it should be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about continental perspectives on philosophy of science. Contributors include Terry Pinkard, Jean Gayon, Michael Friedman, Richard Tieszen, Joseph Rouse, Mary Tiles, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Linda Alcoff, Todd May, Penelope Deutscher, and Axel Honneth.