Stephen Toulmin Bücher

Die zentrale These der Kritik der kollektiven Vernunft – nämlich: in der Wissenschaft wie in der Philosophie hat die ausschließliche Beschäftigung mit logischer Systematizität verheerende Folgen für historisches Verstehen und rationale Kritik gezeitigt - ist im Kern bereits in Toulmins 1958 erschienenem Buch The Uses of Argument enthalten. Toulmins seitherige Studien, vor allem über die Entwicklung des wissenschaftlichen Denkens, lassen die Entfaltung dieser These zu einem neuen epistemischen Selbstporträt werden. Das heißt: so wie Plato, Descartes, Locke oder Kant die Fragen, Konzepte und Gemeinplätze ihrer Zeit in ihre Philosophie integrier haben, so versucht Toulmin auf der Grundlage des heute erreichten Standes der Wissenschaften die Fähigkeiten, Prozesse und Aktivitäten neu zu erklären, kraft derer der Mensch die Natur erkennt und umgekehrt die Natur für den Menschen erkennbar wird.

One of three companion volumes that form an introduction to the central ideas of the modern natural sciences, this book is a source for those who have no technical knowledge of the subject of astronomy and dynamics.

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A central theme throughout the impressive series of philosophical books and articles Stephen Toulmin has published since 1948 is the way in which assertions and opinions concerning all sorts of topics, brought up in everyday life or in academic research, can be rationally justified. Is there one universal system of norms, by which all sorts of arguments in all sorts of fields must be judged, or must each sort of argument be judged according to its own norms? In The Uses of Argument (1958) Toulmin sets out his views on these questions for the first time. In spite of initial criticisms from logicians and fellow philosophers, The Uses of Argument has been an enduring source of inspiration and discussion to students of argumentation from all kinds of disciplinary background for more than forty years