The investigation of the relation between philosophy and science focuses on the following issues:
- Confronting scientific theories with the philosophical and methodological postulates of knowledge;
- Confronting fragments of science history with the scenarios of science development worked out in the philosophy of science;
- Idealization in modelling processes and determination of ontology of idealization results;
- The structure and development of scientific theories aimed at reconstruction of subject-object relation;
- Quantitative representation of phenomenal relations in models of measurement;
- The theoretical modelling process as reflecting the coordination of theoretical quantities with reality and, in consequence, explaining the sense of cognitive realism;
- Recognizing other than logical determinants of the development of science as generally valid for human creation (e.g., tacit knowing or social conditions);
- Comparing logic and physiology of science.

Contents:

Foreword

1. The operationism and absoluteness
1.1. The normative character of operationism
1.2. Is the special relativity an operationistic theory?
1.3. Is the Newtonian physics an operationistic theory?
1.4. The complementarity of operationism and absoluteness

2. The discovery as the subject of methodology
2.1. The context of discovery or justification
2.2. The problem of electrically charged moving bodies in 19th century physics
2.3. The novelty of special relativity and its consequences
2.4. The novelty of Poincare's kinematics
2.5. The criterion of novelty
2.6. The reconstruction of relativity and Ives' kinematics programme
2.7. The inconsistency of kinematics programmes

3. The fractal attributes of hierarchy of the Universe
3.1. Fractal conceptualization
3.2. Homogeneity and isotropicity versus hierarchy of the Universe
3.3. The scale independence of fractal description
3.4. Charlier's and Fournier d'Albe's hierarchical models of the Universe
3.5. Fractal cosmography

4. The frontiers of physicalism in the light of anthropism
4. 1. The participation and anthropic principle
4.2. Weak and strong formulations of anthropic principle
4.3. Observer as a participant

5. The physical sense of indistinguishability in quantum mechanics
5.1. The measurement resolution and Parker's indistinguishability
5.2. The meaning of indistinguishability
5.2.1. The meaning of indistinguishability in the light of measurement theory
5.2.2. Parker-Rhodes' indistinguishability
5.3. The fundamentality of physical action
5.4. The formulation of compensative directive
5.5. The indistinguishability and Heisenberg relation

6. Model, idealization, reality
6.1. Instrumentalism versus realism
6.2. The theoretical model as an explanans
6.3. The explanation with the help of theoretical laws
6.4. The physical theory, idealization conditions and special metaphysics

7. Five kinds of tacit knowing
7.1. The ontological basis of tacit knowing
7.2. The complementary character of overt and tacit knowing
7.3. Tacit knowing and procedures; the function of language
7.4. Tacit knowing and special metaphysics; knowledge about coliventions
7.5. Communication between scholars: knowledge about discovery
7.6. The perfecting of communication skill: knowledge about criticism

8. Conceptual apparatus and thought style
8.1. Language and thought style
8.2. Reasoning and thought style
8.3. The truth of thought style
8.4. Conventionalism and thought style
8.5. Cognition and thought style
8.6. Development of knowledge and thought style

Appendix A. The formal theory of measurement with finite standard

Appendix B. On the origin of the light postulate

Appendix C. Cosmology, natural philosophy and pop-culture (written by Mirosław Zabierowski)

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