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Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair
Maurice Finocchiaro considers the trial of Galileo by the Roman Inquisition in 1633, weighing up the views of both sides and presenting an account tha...
Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career while...
A New Abridged Translation and Guide
"This is a very creative piece of work which merits the highest praise. It should be of great value for students and for the general reader."—I. Ber...
Critical Reasoning in the Two Affairs
Although recent works on Galileo’s trial have reached new heights of erudition, documentation, and sophistication, they often exhibit inflated compl...
Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Essays
This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumenta...
"This is must reading for historians of science and a delight for the interested public. From his access to many primary sources in the Vatican Librar...
Systematic, Critical, and Historical Essays In Logical Theory
This book brings together essays by one of the pre-eminent scholars of informal logic....
The publication in 1632 of Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the ‘scientific ...
A critical reappraisal of Gramsci as a thinker and of the dialectical approach as a mode of inquiry....
In one of the first works on the subject, Maurice A. Finocchiaro examines history-of-science methodology according to the concept of explanation. He w...
Critical Reviews, Conceptual Analyses, and Case Studies
This is the first book-length study of the fallacy of composition. It focuses on arguments from parts to whole, from micro to macro, and from some to ...