Grundlegend umwälzende wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis führt zu gleichermaßen weitreichenden Umwälzungen in der Philosophie. Diese Verbindung wird anhand des Beispiels der Lehren von Kopernikus, Darwin oder Freud aufgezeigt.

Friedel Weinert is Professor of Philosophy at Bradford University and a former Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the LSE in London. He holds a PhD in Philosophy, a BA in Sociology, and a BSc in Physics. Dr. Weinert is the editor of Laws of Nature (1995), the author of The Scientist as Philosopher (2004) and chief editor of the forthcoming Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.