Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science

Prof. Dr. Raffaele Pisano is a Professor, CIREL, Lille 3 University, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. His fields of research and teaching include: history of physics, theoretical physics, historical epistemology of science, history of mathematical physics, comparative, NoS, history and didactics of science. Prof. Dr. Joseph Agassi is an Emeritus Professor of Tel-Aviv University, Israel and York University, Toronto, Canada. His fields of research and teaching include: philosophy of science, theoretical physics, sociology, mathematical physics, foundations of science, psychology, and anthropology. Dr. Daria Drozdova is a Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. Her fields of research and teaching include: philosophy of science and history of early modern science.

Chapter 1. Alexandre Koyré: His Secret Charm.-
Chapter 2. Homage to Koyré: Space as Paradigmatic Example of "The Unity of Human Thought".-
Chapter 3. The Philosophers and the Machine": Philosophy of Mathematics and History of Science in Alexandre Koyré.-
Chapter 4. Koyré and Galileo: the Myth of the Leaning Tower's Scientific Experiment.-
Chapter 5. On Galileo's Platonism, Again.-
Chapter 6. Alexandre Koyré and Blaise Pascal.-
Chapter 7. Koyré Revolutionary Role in the Historiography of Science.-
Chapter 8. Alexandre Koyré's Essential Features of the Scientific Revolution.-
Chapter 9. Koyré, Cassirer and History of Science.-
Chapter 10. Alexandre Koyré and the History of Science as a Species of the History of Philosophy: The Cases of Galileo and Descartes .-Chapter 11. ls Descartes' Theological Voluntarism Compatible with His Philosophy?.-
Chapter 12. The Posterity of Koyré's Galileo Studies.-
Chapter 13. Alexandre Koyré, Kepler's Reader without Prejudices. Harmony of the World, Music of the Heavens.-
Chapter 14. The History between Koyré and Husserl.-
Chapter 15. Kuhn, Sarton and the History of Science.-
Chapter 16. On the Conceptualization of Force in Johannes Kepler's Corpus: an Interplay between Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics.-
Chapter 17. Koyré versus Olschki-Zilsel.-
Chapter 18. Alexandre Koyré, History and Actuality.-
Chapter 19. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Following Koyré: the Young Tom Kuhn, 'Critical Historian', on Tradition Dynamics and Big History.-
Chapter 20. Alexandre Koyré and the Traditional Interpretation of the Anthropological Consequences of the Copernican Revolution.-
Chatper 21. Koyré as a Historian of Religion and the New French Phenomenology.