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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789401794510
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (XII, 90 p, online resource)
    Serie: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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    Serie: Bücher
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    Serie: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Paralleltitel: Druckausg.
    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy
    Kurzfassung: This book addresses a tightly knit cluster of questions in the philosophy of mind. There is the question: Are mental properties identical with physical properties? An affirmative answer would seem to secure the truth of physicalism regarding the mind, i.e., the belief that all mental phenomena obtain solely in virtue of physical phenomena. If the answer is negative, then the question arises: Can this solely in virtue of relation be understood as some kind of dependence short of identity? And answering this requires answering two further questions. Exactly what sort of dependence on the physical does physicalism require, and what is needed for a property or phenomenon to qualify as physical? It is argued that multiple realizability still provides irresistible proof (especially with the possibility of immaterial realizers) that mental properties are not identical with any properties of physics, chemistry, or biology. After refuting various attempts to formulate nonreductive physicalism with the notion of realization, a new definition of physicalism is offered. This definition shows how it could be that the mental depends solely on the physical even if mental properties are not identical with those of the natural sciences. Yet, it is also argued that the sort of psychophysical dependence described is robust enough that if it were to obtain, then in a plausible and robust sense of ‘physical’, mental properties would still qualify as physical properties
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    ISBN: 9789400753921 , 1283910292 , 9781283910293
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Serie: Cultural Studies of Science Education 7
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Education Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Education Philosophy ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Schüler ; Imagination
    Kurzfassung: Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and Darwin, they rarely learn about the messy, day-to-day practice of science in which scientists are ordinary humans. Surprisingly, the process by which this imagination of science in education occurs has rarely been theorized. This is all the more remarkable since great thinkers tend to agree that the formation of images - imagination - is at the root of how human beings modify their material world. Hence this process in school science is fundamental to the way in which scientists, being the successful agents in/of science education, actually create their own scientific enterprise once they take up their professional life.One of the first to examine the topic, this book takes a theoretical approach to understanding the process of imagining science in education. The authors utilize a number of interpretive studies in both science and science education to describe and contrast two opposing forces in the imagination of science in education: epicization and novelization. Currently, they argue, the imagination of science in education is dominated by epicization, which provides an absolute past of scientific heroes and peak discoveries. This opens a distance between students and today’s scientific enterprises, and contrasts sharply with the wider aim of science education to bring the actual world of science closer to students. To better understand how to reach this aim, the authors offer a detailed look at novelization, which is a continuous renewal of narratives that derives from dialogical interaction. The book brings together two hitherto separate fields of research in science education: psychologically informed research on students’ images of science and semiotically informed research on images of science in textbooks. Drawing on a series of studies in which children participate in the imagination of science in and out of the classroom, the authors show how the process of novelization actually occurs in the practice of education and outline the various images of science this process ultimately yields.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Imagination of Science in Education; Preface; Contents; Introduction: Imagination, Epicization, and Novelization in Science Education; Part I Epics of Science in Science Education; Chapter 1: The Heroes of Science; Science Curricula and Students' Images of Scientists; Representations of Scientists in Textbooks; Case 1: Louis Pasteur; Narratives, Identity, and Scientific Practice; Cultural-Historical Activity Theory; Common Structures in the Representation of Scientists; Principles of Semiotic Analysis; Deletion of Lives and Works; Case 2: Mendel's Laws; Case 3: Darwin's Voyage
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Production of Heroic ImagesSo What?; Chapter 2: What Scientific Heroes Are (Not) Doing; Scientists and Cartesian Graphs; Ethnographic Background; Semiological Model of Scientists' Graph Reading; Segmenting Inscriptions: From It to Signifier; Hermeneutic Reading: From Signifier to "Natural Object"; Transparent Reading: Fusion of Signifier and "Natural Object"; Tracking Water; Trajectories: Between Natural Object, Signifiers, and It; The Making of Heroes; Part II A Need for Novelized Images of Science; Chapter 3: Science as One Form of Human Knowing; Multiculturalism Versus Universalism
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: A Need for a Different EpistemologyTEK and Science as Forms of Human Knowledge; Producing Scientific Knowledge/Reducing Local Contexts; Applying Scientific Knowledge/Reducing Local Contexts; Toward a Dialogic Conception of the TEK-Science Relation; Chapter 4: Science as Dynamic Practice; Genomics as a Case of the Dynamics of Science; Capturing the Dynamics of Science; Definitions of Scientific Literacy and the Dynamics of Science; Scientific Literacy as Set of Cognitive Objectives; Scientific Literacy as Individually Constructed Knowledge
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Scientific Literacy as an Emergent Feature of Collective Human ActivityCollective Activity and Students' Agency in Genomics Education; Toward Novelization in Genomics Education; Part III Toward Novelization in/of Science Education; Chapter 5: Scientific Literacy in the Wild; Struggle for Access to the Collective Water Grid; The Birth of a Concept; Repeated Re/definition; Standards Cannot Capture Scientific Literacy in the Wild; Rethinking the Nature of Knowledge and Scientific Literacy; Novelizing "Scientific Literacy"; Chapter 6: Translations of Scientific Practice
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Research on Students' "Images of Science"Scientific Practice, Human Activity, and "Imagification"; Ethnography of Science and Internship; "Students' Images of Science"; Interpreting Translations of Scientific Practices; How Are "Images of Science" Produced?; Episode 1; Episode 2; Episode 3; Episode 4; The Epic Nature of "Students' Images of Science"; Chapter 7: Place and Chronotope; A Beautiful Marine Park; Place as Problematic; Ecological Place-Based Education; Critical Pedagogy of Place; Place as Voice; Place as Living Entity; Place as Chronotope; The Notion of Chronotope
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Place as Chronotope
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface -- INTRODUCTION: Imagination, Epicization, and Novelization in Science Education -- PART I: EPICS OF SCIENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION -- 1. The Heroes of Science -- 2. What Scientific Heroes Are (Not) Doing -- PART II: A NEED FOR NOVELIZED IMAGES OF SCIENCE -- 3. Science as One Form of Human Knowing -- 4. Science as Dynamic Practice -- PART III: TOWARD NOVELIZATION IN/OF SCIENCE EDUCATION -- 5. Scientific Literacy in the Wild -- 6. Translations of Scientific Practice -- 7. Place and Chronotope -- PART IV: NOVELIZING DISCOURSE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION -- 8. Science Education for Sustainable Development -- 9. Novelizing Native and Scientific Discourse -- 10. Fullness of Life as a Minimal Novelizing Unit -- CODA: Novelizing the Novelized Image of Science in Education -- References -- Index..
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    ISBN: 9789400743458
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 282
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T. The mechanization of natural philosophy
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 17th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturphilosophie ; Mechanismus ; Ideengeschichte 1550-1720
    Kurzfassung: The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254).
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Construction of Historical Categories; Chapter 1: Remarks on the Pre-history of the Mechanical Philosophy; 1.1 What Was the Mechanical Philosophy?; 1.2 The Mechanical Philosophy Before Boyle; 1.3 Bacon; 1.4 Galileo; 1.5 Mersenne; 1.6 Descartes/Gassendi/Hobbes: Mechanical Philosophers?; 1.7 Novatores, Latitudinarians, and the Construction of the Mechanical Philosophy; 1.8 A Broader Conception of Mechanism?; Chapter 2: How Bacon Became Baconian
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2.1 The Meaning of Mechanical Operation in Bacon's Oeuvre2.2 Mechanical and Vital Readings of Bacon's Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England; 2.3 Conclusion; Chapter 3: An Empire Divided: French Natural Philosophy (1670-1690); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A Debate on Natural Philosophy; 3.3 On the Side of the New Philosophers; 3.3.1 The Methodology of Ontology: Beings Should Not Be Multiplied Without Necessity; 3.3.2 The Way of Physics: Physics Should Explain Phenomena, Namely, Give Efficient Causes; 3.3.3 Ontological Categories: The Bipartition Between Body and Soul Should Be Respected
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3.3.4 The Social Twist3.4 On the Side of the Old Philosophers; 3.4.1 The Methodology of Ontology: The Multiplication of Corpuscles and the Missing Metaphysical Supplement; 3.4.2 The Way of Physics: One Should Not Indulge in Hypotheses, Ignore Experiments and Use Empty Words; 3.4.3 The Ontological Categories and the Controversy Over Animal Souls; 3.4.4 Another Social Twist; 3.5 Conclusions; Part II: Matter, Motion, Physics and Mathematics; Chapter 4: Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Corpuscular Theories of the Physician d'Olesa
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 4.2.1 Elements, Minima and Qualities4.2.2 The Problem of Mixture; 4.2.3 A Corpuscular Theory of Light and Vision; 4.3 The Absence of a Tradition; 4.3.1 The Hypothesis of Menéndez Pelayo; 4.3.2 The Salamacan Physician Gomez Pereira; 4.3.3 The Salamacan Physician Francisco Valles; 4.4 Conclusion; Chapter 5: The Composition of Space, Time and Matter According to Isaac Newton and John Keill; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Early Modern Natural Philosophy; 5.3 The Evolution of Newton's Views on the Composition of Space, Time and Matter
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 5.4 The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter According to John Keill5.5 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Beeckman, Descartes and Physico-Mathematics; 6.1 Beeckman; 6.1.1 Persistence of Motion; 6.1.2 Persistence of the Form of a Motion; 6.1.3 Conservation in the Exchange of Motion; 6.1.4 Isoperimetric Figures; 6.2 Descartes; 6.2.1 Persistence of Motion; 6.2.2 Communication of Motion; 6.2.3 Persistence and Direction; 6.3 Physico-Mathematics; Chapter 7: Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy: Hydrostatics in Scotland About 1700; 7.1 Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 7.2 The Mathematical Hydrostatics of Wallis, Gregorie, and Newton
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    ISBN: 9789400762411
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (VIII, 207 p. 1 illus, digital)
    Serie: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29
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    Paralleltitel: Druckausg. Contemporary perspectives on early modern philosophy
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy, Modern ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Philosophie ; Natur ; Wahrnehmung ; Norm ; Geschichte 1600-1800
    Kurzfassung: Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection of new essays by leading scholars in early modern philosophy and specialists in contemporary philosophy, this volume goes beyond the point where nature and normativity came apart, and challenges the well-established opposition between these all too neatly separated realms. It examines how the mind’s embeddedness in nature can be conceived as a starting point for uncovering the links between naturally and conventionally determined standards governing an agent’s epistemic and moral engagement with the world. The original essays are grouped in two parts. The first part focuses on specific aspects of theories of perception, thought formation and judgment. It gestures towards an account of normativity that regards linguistic conventions and natural constraints as jointly setting the scene for the mind’s ability to conceptualise its experiences. The second part of the book asks what the norms of desirable epistemic and moral practices are. Key to this approach is an examination of human beings as parts of nature, who act as natural causes and are determined by their sensibilities and sentiments. Each part concludes with a chapter that integrates features of the historical debate into the contemporary context
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Nature and Norms in Thought; 1.1 Part I Nature's Influence on the Mind; 1.2 Part II Shaping the Norms of Our Intellectual and Practical Engagement with the World; References; Part I: Nature's Influence on the Mind; Chapter 2: Intentionality Bifurcated: A Lesson from Early Modern Philosophy?; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Descartes; 2.2.1 Propositional Ofness; Proposition principle; 2.2.2 Why Propositional Ofness Is Not Enough; Third Meditation scenario; 2.2.3 Representational Ofness; Reflective improvement of ideas; 2.3 Locke; 2.3.1 Propositional Ofness
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2.3.2 Why Propositional Ofness Is Not Enough2.3.3 Representational Ofness; Conformity by correlation; Representation ofness and adequacy; Projectibility and explanatory constitutions; 2.4 Cartesian and Lockean Rationalism; Lockean rationalism; Cartesian rationalism; 2.5 A Lesson for Current Debates?; References; Chapter 3: Ideas as Thick Beliefs: Spinoza on the Normativity of Ideas; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Four Basic Tenets; 3.3 Two Kinds of Normativity; 3.4 No Content Without Attitude; 3.5 Content Determination Through Conative Attitudes; 3.6 Conscious Ideas as Thick Beliefs; 3.7 Conclusion
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: ReferencesChapter 4: Three Problems in Locke's Ontology of Substance and Mode; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Contrast Between Substances and Modes; 4.3 The First Problem; 4.4 The Second Problem; 4.5 The Third Problem; 4.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Kant on Imagination and the Natural Sources of the Conceptual; 5.1 The Faculty of Presentation; 5.2 Image-Models; 5.3 Synthesis; 5.4 A 'Threefold Synthesis'; 5.5 The Synopsis of Sense; 5.6 Synthesis a Priori and the Concept of Guidance; References; Chapter 6: Naturalized Epistemology and the Genealogy of Knowledge; 6.1 Introduction
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6.2 Kornblith's Criticism of Craig6.3 Is Knowledge a Natural Kind?; 6.4 Craig's Genealogy of Knowledge; 6.5 Genealogy and Naturalized Epistemology; 6.6 Conclusion; References; Part II: Shaping the Norms of Our Intellectual and Practical Engagement with the World; Chapter 7: Sensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume, Baumgarten, and Herder; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Diderot; 7.3 Hume; 7.4 Baumgarten; 7.5 Sensibility; 7.6 Herder; References; Chapter 8: Back to the Facts - Herder on the Normative Role of Sensibility and Imagination; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Concept Formation; 8.3 Herder's Holism
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 8.4 Imagining as a Form of Discovery8.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Extending Nature: Rousseau on the Cultivation of Moral Sensibility; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Unnatural Distortions; 9.3 Society's Education; 9.4 Cultivating Moral Sensibility; References; Chapter 10: The Piacular, or on Seeing Oneself as a Moral Cause in Adam Smith; 10.1 Introduction and Theses; 10.2 Sympathy and Knowledge of Causal Relations 5; 10.3 Causation and Rationality; 10.4 We (Ought to) See Ourselves as Causes!; 10.5 Norms of Appeasement; 10.6 The Language of Superstition; 10.7 Conclusion; References
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 11: Explaining and Describing: Panpsychism and Deep Ecology
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    ISBN: 9789400758452
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (VII, 512 p. 30 illus, digital)
    Serie: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective 4
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    Paralleltitel: Druckausg.
    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy
    Kurzfassung: This volume is a serious attempt to open up the subject of European philosophy of science to real thought, and provide the structural basis for the interdisciplinary development of its specialist fields, but also to provoke reflection on the idea of ‘European philosophy of science’. This efforts should foster a contemporaneous reflection on what might be meant by philosophy of science in Europe and European philosophy of science, and how in fact awareness of it could assist philosophers interpret and motivate their research through a stronger collective identity. The overarching aim is to set the background for a collaborative project organising, systematising, and ultimately forging an identity for, European philosophy of science by creating research structures and developing research networks across Europe to promote its development
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; From the Sciences that Philosophy Has "Neglected" to the New Challenges; I; II; III; IV; Teams A and D The Philosophy of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence; Computing with Mathematical Arguments; Abstract; 1. Interactively Formalizing Mathematical Arguments; 2. Proof-Checking Technology; 3. Problems for Formal Proofs; 3.1 Inferentialism, indeterminacy of content; 3.2 Regress; 4. What Counts As "Obvious"?; 5. Conclusion; References; Is There a Unique Physical Entropy? Micro versus Macro; Abstract; 1. Entropy in Statistical Physics; 2. Entropy in Thermodynamics
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3. A Discrepancy4. The Standard "Solution": Indistinguishability of Particles of The Same Kind; 5. Permutations of "Identical" Classical Particles; 6. An Alternative "Solution": Distinguishability ofParticles of The Same Kind; 7. The Difference Between The Thermodynamic and Statistical Entropies; References; A Defence of the Principle of Information Closureagainst the Sceptical Objection; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. The formulation of the Principle of Information Closure; 3. The sceptical objection; 4. The defence of the principle; 5. An objection against the defence and a reply
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6. Conclusion: Information closure and the logic of being informedReferences; Probabilistic Logics in Quantum Computation; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminary Notions; 3. Probabilistic-Type Logic for Qbits; 4. Probabilistic-Type Logic for Mixed States; 5. Connections with Fuzzy Logic; References; Quantum Observer, Information Theory and Kolmogorov Complexity; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Observer In The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics; 2.1 Observer in the Copenhagen orthodoxy; 2.2 London and Bauer; 2.3 Wigner; 2.4 Everett; 3.Information-Theoretic Definition of Observer
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3.1 Observer as a system identification algorithm3.2 Quantum and classical systems; 4. Elements of Reality; 4.1 Entropic criterion of objectivity; 4.2 Relativity of observation; 5. Experimental Test; 6. Concluding Remarks; References; Mathematical Philosophy?; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Logical Analysis and Logical Explication; 3. The Dawn of Mathematics in Philosophy; 4. Recent uses of Mathematical methods in Philosophy; 5. Limitations?; 5.1 Philosophy and our conceptual world; 5.2 Models and instrumentalism; 5.3 Informal concepts and the discursive style
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 5.4 The bounded scope of mathematical methodsReferences; The Value of Computer Science for Brain Research; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Brain research and its need for analogies; 3. Computer Science as the way out of the black box; 4. Simulating the brain: The Blue Brain Project; 5. Bottom-up vs. top-down simulations: Function before structure; 6. Conclusion; On Algorithm and Robustness in a Non-standard Sense; Abstract; 1. Introducation; 2. Reverse Mathematics; 2.1. Alan Turing's machine and Recursion Theory; 2.2. Reverse Mathematics and robustness; 3. Reuniting the Antipodes
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3.1. The notion of finite procedure in Nonstandard Analysis
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Preface,- Teams A and D: The Philosophy of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence -- Jesse Alama, Reinhard Kahle, Computing with Mathematical Arguments -- Dennis Dieks, Is There a Unique Physical Entropy? Micro versus Macro -- Luciano Floridi, A Defence of the Principle of Information Closure against the Sceptical Objection -- Roberto Giuntini, Hector Freytes,  Antonio Ledda, Giuseppe Sergioli,  Probabilistic Logics in Quantum Computation -- Alexei Grinbaum, Quantum Observer, Information Theory and Kolmogorov Complexity -- Leon Horsten, Mathematical Philosophy? -- Ulriche Pompe, The Value of Computer Science for Brain Research -- Sam Sanders, On Algorithm and Robustness in a Non-standard Sense.-  Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, Behavioral Dynamics under Climate Change Dilemmas -- Sonja Smets, Reasoning about Quantum Actions: A Logician's Perspective -- Leszek Wroński, Branching Space-Times and Parallel Processing -- Team B: Philosophy of Systems Biology -- Gabriele Gramelsberger, Simulation and System Understanding -- Tarja Knuuttila, Andrea Loettgers, Synthetic Biology as an Engineering Science? Analogical Reasoning, Synthetic Modeling, and Integration.- Anders Strand, Gry Oftedal, Causation and Counterfactual Dependence in Robust Biological Systems.- Melinda Bonnie Fagan, Experimenting Communities in Stem Cell Biology: Exemplars and Interdisciplinarity -- William Bechtel, From Molecules to Networks: Adoption of Systems Approaches in Circadian Rhythm Research.- Olaf Wolkenhauer, Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr, Interdisciplinarity as both Necessity and Hurdle for Progress in the Life Sciences -- Team C: The Sciences of the Artificial vs. the Cultural and Social Sciences.- Amparo Gómez, Archaeology and Scientific Explanation: Naturalism, Interpretivism and ‘A Third Way’.- Demetris Portides, Idealization in Economics Modeling -- Ilkka Niiniluoto, On the Philosophy of Applied Social Sciences -- Arto Siitonen, The Status of Library Science: From Classification to Digitalization -- Paolo Garbolino, The Scientification of Forensic Practice -- Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, The Sciences of Design as Sciences of Complexity: The Dynamic Trait -- Subrata Dasgupta, Epistemic Complexity and the Sciences of the Artificial -- María José Arrojo, Communication Sciences as Sciences of the Artificial: The Analysis of the Digital Terrestrial Television.- Team E: The Philosophy of the Sciences that Received Philosophy of Science Neglected: Historical Perspective -- Elisabeth Nemeth, The Philosophy of the Other Austrian Economics -- Veronika Hofer, Philosophy of Biology in Early Logical Empiricism -- Julie Zahle, Participant Observation and Objectivity in Anthropology -- Jean-Marc Drouin, Three Philosophical Approaches to Entomology -- Anastasios Brenner, François Henn, Chemistry and French Philosophy of Science. A Comparison of Historical and Contemporary Views -- Cristina Chimisso, The Life Sciences and French Philosophy of Science: Georges Canguilhem on Norms -- Massimo Ferrari, Neglected History: Giulio Preti, the Italian Philosophy of Science, and the Neo-Kantian Tradition -- Thomas Mormann, Topology as an Issue for History of Philosophy of Science -- Graham Stevens, Philosophy, Linguistics, and the Philosophy of Linguistics -- PSE Symposium at EPSA 2011: New Challenges to Philosophy of Science.- Olav Gjelsvik, Philosophy as Interdisciplinary Research -- Theo Kuipers, Philosophy of Design Research -- Raffaella Campaner, Philosophy of Medicine and Model Design -- Roman Frigg, Seamus Bradley, Reason L. Machete, Leonard A. Smith, Probabilistic Forecasting: Why Model Imperfection Is a Poison Pill -- Daniel Andler, Dissensus in Science as a Fact and as a Norm. .
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    ISBN: 9789400749511
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Serie: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy
    Kurzfassung: This book is a radical reappraisal of the importance of Aristotelianism in Britain. Using a full range of manuscripts as well as printed sources, it provides an entirely new interpretation of the impact of the early-modern Aristotelian tradition upon the rise of British Empiricism, and reexamines the fundamental shift from a humanist logic to epistemology and facultative logic. The task is to reconstruct the philosophical background and framework in which the thought of philosophers such Locke, Berkeley and Hume originated: some aspects of their empiricism can be explained only in reference to the academic Aristotelian tradition, even if these authors established themselves as anti-scholastic, anti-Aristotelian philosophers outside the official institutions.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1 Introduction -- 2 Logic in the British Isles during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 3 Logic in the Universities of the British Isles -- 4 Zabarella’s Empiricism 5 Early Aristotelianism between Humanism and Ramism -- the British School 7 Continental Aristotelians in the British Isles -- 8 The Empiricism of the Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 9. The Reformers of Aristotelian Logic -- 10 Late Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography.-Index ​.
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    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 273
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T. The Berlin Group and the philosophy of logical empiricism
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    Kurzfassung: The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was not only close relatedness but also significant difference. Above all, while the Berlin Group explored philosophical problems of the actual practice of science, the Vienna Circle, closely following Wittgenstein, was more interested in problems of the language of science. The book includes first discussion ever (in three chapters) on Walter Dubislav’s logic and philosophy. Two chapters are devoted to another author scarcely explored in English, Kurt Grelling, and another one to Paul Oppenheim who became an important figure in the philosophy of science in the USA in the 1940s-1960s. Finally, the book discusses the precursor of the Nord-German tradition of scientific philosophy, Jacob Friedrich Fries
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface; Milkov, Peckhaus.- Part I. Introductory Chapters -- Part II. Historical-Theoretical Context -- Part III. Hans Reichenbach -- Part IV. Walter Dubislav -- Part V. Kurt Grelling and  Alexander Herzberg -- Part VI. Carl Hempel und Paul Oppenheim.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Psychology History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Psychology History
    Kurzfassung: This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a framework that presents imagination as founded in the placement of appearances. It shows how this framework was progressively developed by thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant, and how it is reflected in more recent developments in theorists as different as Peirce, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Bachelard. The conceptual topology of imagination incorporates logic, mathematics, and science as well as production, play, and art. Recognizing this topology can move us past the confusions to a unifying view of imagination for the future
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Beginning in the Middle of Things; 1.1 Constellations of Questions About Imagination; 1.2 The Occluded-Occulted Tradition of Intelligent Imagining; References; Chapter 2: Locating Emergent Appearance; 2.1 Some Practice of Imagining, and Thoughts About It; 2.2 Psychologism, Antipsychologism, and the Persistence of the Visual Model; 2.3 Limits of the Visual Model; 2.4 Elementary and Complex Imagining; 2.5 Listening to Images; 2.6 Can Philosophers Sing?; 2.7 Simple Imagining and Beyond; References40
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 3: Locating Imagination: The Inceptive Field Productivity and Differential Topology of Imagining (Plus What It Means to Play a Game)3.1 Hume's Blue; 3.2 From Resemblant Production to Schematized Activity in Fields; 3.3 Imagination as a Release in/of/from the Conditions of Perception; 3.4 The Repositioning of Imagination and the Problem of Reifying Consciousness; 3.5 Fields; 3.6 Imaginative Topology and Topographies; 3.7 Placing the Topological Dynamics of Imagination; 3.8 From Basketball Practice to the Biplanarity of Imagining
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3.9 From the Biplanarity of Imagining to the Practice of Art3.10 Transition: Reversing the Occlusion and Occultation of Tradition; References66; Chapter 4: Plato and the Ontological Placement of Images; 4.1 Pre-Platonic Philosophy and the Emergence of the Image-Bearer; 4.2 Image-Bearers, Figures, and Images in Plato's Meno; 4.3 The Use and Abuse of Images; 4.4 Speech as Image, Reason as Imaginative, and the Platonic Ontology of Imaging; 4.5 The Multilevel Look of Things in the Republic; 4.6 The Paradoxes of Imaging; 4.7 The Ontology of Images and the Psychology of Scenario-Imagining
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 4.8 The Grand Image-Sequence of the Republic : From the Good Itself to the Dialectical Education of the Philosopher4.9 Singing and Hearing the logos; 4.10 Forming an Equable Icon of the Cosmos; 4.11 The Perfect Image of the Cosmos as the Goal of Dialectic; 4.12 Conclusion; References74; Chapter 5: Aristotle's phantasia : From Animal Sensation to Understanding Forms of Fields; 5.1 Aristotle's Physiologically Based Psychology of Imagination; 5.2 Placing Soul in Aristotelian Context; 5.3 Aristotle's Imagination Conventionalized; 5.4 Phantasia Beyond the Conventions
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 5.5 The Perplexities of Imagination in On the Soul III: An Overview5.6 The Imagination of On the Soul III.3: What It Is and What It Isn't; 5.7 Imagination, Sensation, Motion; 5.8 What the Physics of Motion Implies; 5.9 From Motions of Sensation to Structures of Imagining; 5.10 What Aristotle's Definition of Imagination Means; 5.11 Is Imagination the Same as Intellect?; 5.12 Parsing the Phenomenon of Thinking; 5.13 Thinking Imagination; 5.14 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: The Dynamically Imaginative Cognition of Descartes; 6.1 Imagination After Aristotle and Before Descartes
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6.2 Descartes's Starting Point
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    Kurzfassung: This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations they share, such as the foundations of order, the power and peril of mediation and the conflation of the natural and the artificial. The essays also take on the historiographical issues involved: the characterization of culture in general and culture of knowledge in particular; the use of generalizations like ‘Baroque’ and the status of such categories; and the role of these in untangling the historical complexities of the tumultuous 17th century. The canonical protagonists of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ are considered, and so are some obscure and suppressed figures: Galileo side by side with Scheiner;Torricelli together with Kircher; Newton as well as Scilla.   The coupling of Baroque and Science defies both the still-triumphalist historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and the slight embarrassment that the Baroque represents for most cultural-national histories of Western Europe. It signals a methodological interest in tensions and dilemmas rather than self-affirming narratives of success and failure, and provides an opportunity for reflective critique of our historical categories which is valuable in its own right.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Science in the Age of Baroque; Contents; Chapter 1: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge; Introduction: The Great Opposition; The Papers 2 : Shades of Baroque; Conclusion: Dilemmas and Anxieties; Notes; References; Part I: Order; Chapter 2: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy?; Introduction: Thinking About "Baroque Science"; Constructing the Category of Natural Philosophy-Natural Philosophising as Culture and Process
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Phases and Stages in the 'Scientific Revolution' Seen as an Unfolding Process in the Field of Natural PhilosophisingThe Dynamics and Rules of Natural Philosophical Contestation During the 'Crisis Within a Crisis' Phase; Articulation on Subordinate Disciplines: Grammar and Specific Utterance; Find or Steal Discoveries, Novelties or Facts, Including Experimental Ones; Bend or Brake Aristotle's Rules About Mathematics and Natural Philosophy: The Gambit of 'Physico-mathematics'; "Hot Spots" of Articulation Contest: Additional Causes and Effects of a Field in Crisis
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Mechanics of Responding to 'Outside' Challenges and OpportunitiesRecruitment of Baroque Behaviours, Norms and Identities?; An Additional, Surprising, Conjectural Finding; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: "Bent and Directed Towards Him": A Stylistic Analysis of Kircher's Sunflower Clock; Kircher's Sunflower Clock Reassessed; The Baroque Style; The Problem of Style; The Baroque Problem; A Stylistic Analysis; Clocks; Magnetism; Sunflowers; A Baroque Instrument; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science; Kepler and Newton
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Kepler and PerfectionNewton and the Moving Aphelia; Kepler's ISL; The ISL After Kepler; Newton's ISL; Conclusion; References; Part II: Vision; Chapter 5: "The Quality of Nothing:" Shakespearean Mirrors and Kepler's Visual Economy of Science; Introduction; Shakespearean Mirrors and the End of Renaissance Science; Kepler's Astronomical Speculations, Aristotelian Metabasis and Renaissance Imagination; Keplerian Shadows on a Wall; Towards Baroque Modes of Observation; References; Chapter 6: Agostino Scilla: A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science; Introduction; The Making of a Learned Painter
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: From Messina to RomeThe Genesis of a Scientific Conversation; Seeing Fossils Like a Painter; References; Chapter 7: What Exactly Was Torricelli's "Barometer?"; Introduction; "Torricelli's Barometer:" The Extant Sources; Rethinking Torricelli's Esperienza of 1644; Torricelli's Mercury Esperienza as Baroque Performance; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan; Introduction; Harvey's Way of Inquiry; The Problem of Inquiry; The Priority of Experience; The Way of the Artisan; The Particular; Apprenticeship and Experience; Artisans and Trust
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Ofer Gal and Raz Chen Morris: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge -- A. Order -- 2. John Schuster: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy? -- 3. Koen Vermeir: “Bent And Directed Towards Him:” A Baroque Perspective on Kircher’s Sunflower Clock -- 4. Ofer Gal: From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science -- B. Vision -- 5. Raz Chen-Morris: “The Quality of Nothing,” Or Kepler's Visual Economy of Science -- 6. Paula Findlen: Agostino Scilla:  A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science -- 7. J.B. Shank: What Exactly Was “Torricelli’s Barometer?” -- 8. Alan Salter: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan -- C. Excess -- 9. John Gascoigne: Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World -- 10. Nicholas Dew: The Hive and the Pendulum: Universal Metrology and Baroque Science.-11. Victor Boantza: Chymical Philosophy and Boyle’s Incongruous Philosophical Chymistry.-12 Rivka Feldhay: The Simulation of Nature and the Dissimulation of the Law on a Baroque Stage: Galileo and the Church Revisited​.
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T. Betz, Gregor Debate dynamics: how controversy improves our beliefs
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Argumentationstheorie ; Debatte
    Kurzfassung: Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it investigates the truth and consensus-conduciveness of controversial debates. The book brings together research in formal epistemology and argumentation theory. Aside from its consequences for discursive practice, the work may have important implications for philosophy of science and the way we construe scientific rationality as well.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: General Introduction; 1.1 The Aims of Argumentation; 1.2 An Example of a Controversial Argumentation; 1.3 Modeling Controversial Debate; 1.4 Results Pertaining to Consensus-Conduciveness; 1.5 Results Pertaining to Truth-Conduciveness; 1.6 Objections and Caveats; 1.7 Putting the Approach in Perspective; Chapter 2: An Introduction to the Theory of Dialectical Structures; 2.1 Fundamental Concepts; 2.2 Degrees of Justification; 2.3 The Space of Coherent Positions; 2.4 Normalized Closeness Centrality
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2.5 Inferential Density2.6 The General Design of the Simulations; Part I: Why Do We Agree? On the Consensus-Conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation; Chapter 3: Introduction to Part I; 3.1 Outline of Part I; 3.2 Main Results and Their Justification; Chapter 4: The Consensual Dynamics of Simple Random Debates; 4.1 Setup; 4.2 Results; 4.3 Discussion; 4.4 Results, Continued; 4.5 Discussion, Continued; Chapter 5: The Consensual Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge; 5.1 Setup; 5.2 Results; 5.3 Discussion
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 6: Comparing the Consensual Dynamics of Four Proponent-Specific Argumentation Strategies in Dualistic Debates6.1 Setup; 6.2 Results; 6.3 Discussion; Chapter 7: The Consensual Dynamics of Argumentation Strategies in Many-Proponent Debates; 7.1 Setup; 7.2 Results; 7.3 Discussion; Chapter 8: The Consensual Dynamics of Debates with Core Updating; 8.1 Setup; 8.2 Results; 8.3 Discussion; Chapter 9: The Consensual Dynamics of Debates with Core Argumentation; 9.1 Setup; 9.2 Results; 9.3 Discussion; Part II: How Do We Know? On the Truth-Conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 10: Introduction to Part II10.1 Outline of Part II; 10.2 Main Results and Their Justification; Chapter 11: The Veritistic Dynamics of Simple Random Debates; 11.1 Setup; 11.2 Results; 11.2.1 Truth's Attraction: How Rapidly Does the Proponents' Verisimilitude Increase?; 11.2.2 The Verisimilitude of Consensus Positions: Is Mutual Agreement a Good Indicator of Having Reached the Truth?; 11.2.3 The Verisimilitude of Stable Positions: Are Proponent Positions Which Remain Relatively Stable Closer to the Truth?; 11.3 Discussion
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 12: The Veritistic Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge12.1 Setup; 12.2 Results; 12.3 Discussion; Chapter 13: Comparing the Veritistic Dynamics of Four Proponent-Specific Argumentation Strategies in Dualistic Debates; 13.1 Setup; 13.2 Results; 13.3 Discussion; Chapter 14: The Veritistic Dynamics of Argumentation Strategies in Many-Proponent Debates; 14.1 Setup; 14.2 Results; 14.2.1 Truth's Attraction: How Rapidly Does the Proponents' Verisimilitude Increase?
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 14.2.2 The Verisimilitude of Consensus Positions: Is Mutual Agreement a Good Indicator of Having Reached the Truth?
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    ISBN: 9789400754287 , 1283634449 , 9781283634441
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy ; Entscheidung ; Vernunft ; Neurowissenschaften
    Kurzfassung: This book carries out an epistemological analysis of the decision, including a critical analysis through the continuous reference to an interdisciplinary approach including a synthesis of philosophical approaches, biology and neuroscience. Besides this it represents the analysis of causality here seen not from the formal point of view, but from the 'embodied' point of view. ?
    Kurzfassung: This book carries out an epistemological analysis of the decision, including a critical analysis through the continuous reference to an interdisciplinary approach including a synthesis of philosophical approaches, biology and neuroscience. Besides this it represents the analysis of causality here seen not from the formal point of view, but from the "embodied" point of view
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Epistemology of Decision; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Rationality and NeuroeconomicsPart I; 1 Rationality and Experimental Economics; 1.1 The Theory of Rational Choice; 1.2 Game Theory; 1.3 Teleology, Instrumentalism and Interpretivism; 1.4 Experimental Economics; 1.5 Criticism of Experimental Economics; References; 2 Neuroeconomics; 2.1 Neuroeconomics and Causality; 2.2 Game Theory and Neuroscience; 2.3 The Role of Social Cognition; 2.4 Empathy Basic and Empathy Re-Enactive; 2.5 Doubts, Feasibility and Future of Neuroeconomics; References
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Biological ApproachesPart II3 Evolutionary Economics and Biological Complexity; 3.1 Biology and the Economy; 3.2 Economic Progress and Evolutionism; 3.3 The Computational Methods and the Engineering Approach; 3.4 Complexity; References;
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    Serie: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 27
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy
    Kurzfassung: This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes’ projects in physico-mathematics, analytical mathematics, universal method, and, finally, systematic corpuscular-mechanical natural philosophy. The concern is not simply with the conceptual and technical aspects of these projects; but, with Descartes’ agendas within them and his construction and presentation of his intellectual identity in relation to them. Descartes’ technical projects, agendas and senses of identity shifted over time, entangled and displayed great successes and deep failures, as he morphed from a mathematically competent, Jesuit trained graduate in neo-Scholastic Aristotelianism to aspiring prophet of a systematised corpuscular-mechanism, passing through stages of being a committed physico-mathematicus, advocate of a putative ‘universal mathematics’, and projector of a grand methodological dream. In all three dimensions-projects, agendas and identity concerns-the young Descartes struggled and contended, with himself and with real or virtual peers and competitors, hence the title ‘Descartes-Agonistes’. ​
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Descartes-Agonistes; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Problems of Descartes and the Scientific Revolution; 1.1 Prologue: The 'Young' and the 'Mature' Descartes, Natural Philosopher; 1.2 Descartes and the Historians of Science; 1.3 Key Pitfalls (and Opportunities) Facing Descartes' Biographers (Even Authors of Quite Truncated Biographies); 1.3.1 The Problem of Method and Its Texts: Regulae and Discours; 1.3.2 The Problem of Descartes the Natural Philosopher, and of Natural Philosophy as a Wide and Dynamic Field of Discourse and Contention
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1.3.3 Scientific Biography and the Historiography of Science1.4 Overview of the Argument; References; Works of Descartes and Their Abbreviations; Other; Chapter 2: Conceptual and Historiographical Foundations-Natural Philosophy, Mixed Mathematics, Physico-mathematics, Method; 2.1 Jesuit neo-Scholasticism for the noblesse de robe; 2.2 In Search of Proper Categories and Angle of Attack; 2.3 Constructing the Category of Natural Philosophy, Part 1-Natural Philosophizing as Culture and Process; 2.4 Some Heuristic Help: Modeling Modern Sciences as Unique, Agonal Traditions in Process
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2.5 Constructing the Category of Natural Philosophy, Part 2: The Dynamics and Rules of Contestation of Natural Philosophizing2.5.1 Articulation on Subordinate Disciplines: Grammar and Specific Utterance; 2.5.2 Find or Steal Discoveries, Novelties or Facts, Including Experimental Ones; 2.5.3 Bend or Brake Aristotle's Rules About Mathematics and Natural Philosophy: The Gambit of 'Physico-Mathematics'; 2.5.4 "Hot Spots" of Articulation Contest: Additional Causes and Effects of Heightened Turbulence in the Field of Natural Philosophizing
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2.5.5 Modeling System Construction and Contestation - The 'Core', 'Vertical' and 'Horizontal' Dimensions of a Natural Philosophical System2.5.6 The Mechanics of Responding to 'Outside' Challenges and Opportunities; 2.6 The Special Status of the Problem of Method; 2.7 Phases and Stages in the 'Scientific Revolution' Seen as an Unfolding Process in the Field of Natural Philosophizing, with Its Attendant Articulations to Other Domains; 2.8 Looking Forward-What Kind of Natural Philosopher/Physico-Mathematician Was René Descartes?; References; Works of Descartes and Their Abbreviations; Other
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 3: 'Recalled to Study'-Descartes, Physico-Mathematicus3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Beeckman: Mentor and Colleague in Physico-Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; 3.2.1 Corpuscular-Mechanical Natural Philosophy and the Values of the Practical Arts; 3.2.2 Beeckman's Causal Register, Principles of Mechanics and Version of Physico-Mathematics; 3.3 Exemplary Physico-Mathematics: The Hydrostatics Manuscript of 1619; 3.3.1 Stevin, Archimedes and the Hydrostatic Paradox; 3.3.2 The Hydrostatics Manuscript [1] The Micro-Corpuscular Reduction; 3.3.3 The Hydrostatics Manuscript [2] The Force of Motion
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3.4 What's the Agenda: Descartes' Radical Form of Physico-Mathematics
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction: Problems of Descartes and the Scientific Revolution -- Conceptual and Historiographical Foundations.-  Recalled to Study: Descartes Physico-Mathematicus  Descartes Opticien: The Optical Triumph of the 1620s -- nalytical Mathematics, Universal Mathematics and Method: Descartes’ Identity and Agenda Entering the 1620s.- Method and the Problem of the Historical Descartes.-  Universal Mathematics Interruptus: The Program of the later Regulae and its Collapse 1626-28 -- Reinventing the Agenda and Identity: Descartes, Physico-mathematical Philosopher of Nature 1629-33.-  Reading Le Monde as Pedagogy and Fable -- Waterworld: Descartes’ Vortical Celestial Mechanics and Cosmological Optics in Le Monde. - Le Monde as a System of Natural Philosophy -- Cosmography, Realist Copernicanism and Systematising Strategy in the Principia Philosophiae -- Conclusion: The Young and the Mature Descartes Agonistes -- Appendix 1 Descartes, Mydorge and Beeckman: The Evolution of Cartesian Lens Theory 1627-1637.-  Appendix 2 Decoding Descartes’ Vortex Celestial Mechanics in the Text of Le Monde.
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    Serie: Studies in Brain and Mind 5
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T. Irvine, Elizabeth Consciousness as a scientific concept
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    Kurzfassung: The source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as academic interest. Yet many problematic issues, identified in this important new book, remain unresolved. Focusing on a series of methodological difficulties swirling around consciousness research, the contributors to this volume suggest that ‘consciousness’ is, in fact, not a wholly viable scientific concept. Supporting this ‘eliminativist‘ stance are assessments of the current theories and methods of consciousness science in their own terms, as well as applications of good scientific practice criteria from the philosophy of science. For example, the work identifies the central problem of the misuse of qualitative difference and dissociation paradigms, often deployed to identify measures of consciousness. It also examines the difficulties that attend the wide range of experimental protocols used to operationalise consciousness-and the implications this has on the findings of integrative approaches across behavioural and neurophysiological research. The work also explores the significant mismatch between the common intuitions about the content of consciousness, that motivate much of the current science, and the actual properties of the neural processes underlying sensory and cognitive phenomena. Even as it makes the negative eliminativist case, the strong empirical grounding in this volume also allows positive characterisations to be made about the products of the current science of consciousness, facilitating a re-identification of target phenomena and valid research questions for the mind sciences.​
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. Introduction: The Science of Consciousness -- 2. Subjective Measures of Consciousness -- 3. Measures of Consciousness and the Method of Qualitative Differences -- 4. Dissociations and Consciousness -- 5. Converging on Consciousness -- 6. Mechanisms of Consciousness and Scientific Kinds -- 7. Content-Matching: The case of Sensory memory and phenomenal consciousness -- 8. Content-Matching: The contents of what? -- 9. Scientific Eliminativism: Why there can be no Science of Consciousness -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendix: Dice Game -- ​.
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T. Functions
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Neurosciences ; Metaphysics ; Science Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; Anthropology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Neurosciences ; Metaphysics ; Science Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; Anthropology ; Teleology ; Causation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Funktion ; Wissenschaft
    Kurzfassung: This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins’s papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s ‘etiological theory of functions’ and Cummins’s ‘systemic’ conception of functions are refined and elaborated in the light of current scientific practice, with papers showing how the ‘etiological’ theory faces several objections and may in reply be revisited, while its counterpart became ever more sophisticated, as researchers discovered fresh applications for it. Relying on a firm knowledge of the original positions and debates, this volume presents cutting-edge research evincing the complexities that today pertain in function theory in various sciences. Alongside original papers from authors central to the controversy, work by emerging researchers taking novel perspectives will add to the potential avenues to be followed in the future. Not only does the book adopt no a priori assumptions about the scope of functional explanations, it also incorporates material from several very different scientific domains, e.g. neurosciences, ecology, or technology. In general, functions are implemented in mechanisms; and functional explanations in biology have often an essential relation with natural selection. These two basic claims set the stage for this book’s coverage of investigations concerning both ‘functional’ explanations, and the ‘metaphysics’ of functions. It casts new light on these claims, by testing them through their confrontation with scientific developments in biology, psychology, and recent developments concerning the metaphysics of realization. Rather than debating a single theory of functions, this book presents the richness of philosophical issues raised by functional discourse throughout the various sciences.​
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Functions: selection and mechanisms; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Theories of Function and the Current Issues; 2 Position and Structure of This Book; 3 Contributions in Detail; References; Part I: Biological Functions and Functional Explanations: Genes, Cells, Organisms and Ecosystems - Functions, Organization and Development in Life Sciences; Evolution and the Stability of Functional Architectures; 1 A Concept of Function; 2 A General Form for Attributions of Function and Some of Its Consequences; 3 Small Mutations as the Raw Material for Changes in Functional Organization
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 4 Generative Entrenchment and the Stability of Deep Functions5 Multiple Realization, Stability, Robustness, and Evolvability; 6 Deep Function and the Limitations of a Selectionist Account of Function; 7 Two Modes of Descriptive Abstraction for Function; 8 Conclusion; References; Mechanism, Emergence, and Miscibility: The Autonomy of Evo-Devo; 1 Mechanism; 2 Emergence; 2.1 Ontological Versus Explanatory Emergence; 2.2 Invariance and Explanation; 2.3 Completeness and Complementarity; 2.4 Autonomy; 2.5 Downward Explanation; 3 Miscibility; 4 The Autonomy of Evo-Devo
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 4.1 Two Conceptions of Adaptive Evolution4.2 Emergent Explanation in Evo-Devo; 5 Conclusion; References; Does Oxygen Have a Function, or Where Should the Regress of Functional Ascriptions Stop in Biology?; 1 Introduction; 2 Theories of Function: Three Families; 3 Functions and Levels of Organization; 4 Can Elementary Molecules Have a Function?; 5 Organisms and Above; 6 Conclusion; References; Part II: Biological Functions and Functional Explanations: Genes, Cells, Organisms and Ecosystems - Functional Pluralism for Biologists?
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: How Ecosystem Evolution Strengthens the Case for Functional Pluralism1 Introduction; 2 Diversity Rules; 3 Looking Ahead; 4 Conclusion; References; A General Case for Functional Pluralism; 1 Mountain Geology; 2 The Analogous Situation in Biology; 3 Form, History, and Function; 4 Conclusion; References; Weak Realism in the Etiological Theory of Functions; 1 The Etiological Theory as a Realist Theory of Functions and Its Requisites; 2 The Weaknesses of SE; 2.1 Logical-Type Problem; 2.2 Problem of the Bundle of Effects; 3 Establish and Explain Functions; 3.1 Functional Organisation Schema
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3.2 Design Counterfactual Analysis3.2.1 The Simple Case; 3.2.2 More Complicated Cases; 3.3 The Comparative Method; 3.4 Confronting Methods; 3.4.1 Divergent Results and Selection; 3.4.2 Etiological Theory?; 4 Conclusion; References; Part III: Psychology, Philosophy of Mind and Technology: Functions in a Man's World - Metaphysics, Function and Philosophy of Mind; Functions and Mechanisms: A Perspectivalist View; 1 Introduction; 2 What Makes a Neurotransmitter a Neurotransmitter?; 3 Mechanisms; 4 Levels of Mechanisms; 5 Explanation: The Mechanist's Stance
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6 Etiological Explanation and Adaptational Functions
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction -- Section I. Biological functions and functional explanations: genes, cells, organisms and ecosystems -- Part 1.A. Functions, organization and development in life sciences -- Chapter 1. William C. Wimsatt. Evolution and the Stability of Functional Architectures -- Chapter 2. Denis M. Walsh. Teleological Emergence: The Autonomy of Evo-Devo -- Chapter 3. Jean Gayon. Does oxygen have a function, or: where should the regress of biological functions stop? -- Part 1.B. Functional pluralism for biologists? Chapter 4. Frédéric Bouchard. How ecosystem evolution strengthens the case for functional pluralism -- Chapter 5. Robert N. Brandon. A general case for functional pluralism -- Chapter 6. Philippe Huneman. Weak realism in the etiological theory of functions -- Section 2. Section II. Psychology, philosophy of mind and technology: Functions in a man’s world -- Part 2.A. 2A. Metaphysics, function and philosophy of mind -- Chapter 7. Carl Craver. Functions and Mechanisms in Contemporary Neuroscience -- Chapter 8. Carl Gillett. Understanding the sciences through the fog of ‘functionalism(s).’ -- 2.B. Philosophy of technology , design and functions -- Chapter 9. Françoise Longy. Artifacts and Organisms: A Case for a New Etiological Theory of Functions -- Chapter 10. Pieter Vermaas and Wybo Houkes. Functions as Epistemic Highlighters: An Engineering Account of Technical, Biological and Other Functions -- Epilogue -- Larry Wright. Revising teleological explanations: reflections three decades on.     ​.
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    ISBN: 9789400753518 , 1283936070 , 9781283936071
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T. Agassi, Joseph, 1927 - 2023 The very idea of modern science
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 17th century ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science
    Kurzfassung: This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of science and why it gave way to professional science in stages. In particular the book studies the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon and of the Hon. Robert Boyle to the rise of modern science. The philosophy of induction is notoriously problematic, yet its great asset is that it expressed the view of the Enlightenment Movement about science. This explains the ambivalence that we still exhibit towards Sir Francis Bacon whose radicalism and vision of pure and applied science still a major aspect of the fabric of society. Finally, the book discusses Boyle’s philosophy, his agreement with and dissent from Bacon and the way he single-handedly trained a crowd of poorly educated English aristocrats and rendered them into an army of able amateur researchers.​
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Very Idea of ModernScience; Abstract; Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; Part I: Bacons Doctrine of Prejudice (A Study in a Renaissance Religion); Introductory Note; Chapter 1: The Riddle of Bacon; 1.1 The Problem of Methodology; 1.2 The Criticism of Bacon's Writings; 1.3 The Past Suggested Solutions; Chapter 2: Bacon's Philosophy of Discovery; 2.1 Bacon's Utopianism; 2.2 Bacon's Metaphysics; 2.3 Bacon's Induction; 2.4 Bacon's Inductive Machine; Chapter 3: Ellis' Major Difficulty; Chapter 4: The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice; 4.1 Radicalism; 4.2 Radicalism Invented
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 4.3 Radical MethodologyChapter 5: Bacon on the Origin of Error and Prejudice; Chapter 6: Prejudices of the Senses; 6.1 The Problem of Observation; 6.2 Prejudices of the Senses; 6.3 Bacon's Theory of Discovery; 6.4 Whewell's Theory of Discovery; 6.5 Popper's Theory of Discovery; 6.6 Bacon's "Mark" of Science; Chapter 7: Prejudices of Opinions; 7.1 Suspension of Judgment; 7.2 What Is a Prejudice?; 7.3 Bacon and the Logical Empiricists; 7.4 Bacon's Double Game; 7.5 The Origin of Scientific Theories; 7.6 Science and Imagination; Chapter 8: Bacon's Influence; 8.1 Influence on Immediate Posterity
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 8.2 Permission to Propose a Hypothesis and to Assert Metaphysics8.3 Permission De Jure and de Facto; 8.4 Legitimation Versus Criticism; 8.5 Bacon's Influence; Chapter 9: Conclusion : The Rise of the Riddle of Bacon; Part II: The Religion of Inductivism as a Living Force; Quasi-Terminological Notes; "The Inductive Style"; "Speculation" and "Hypothesis"; "Hypothesis" and "Fact"; On the Recent Literature; Homage to Robert Boyle; Chapter 10: Philosophical Background; 10.1 Inductivism Classical and Modern; 10.2 Metaphysical Views, Classical and Modern; 10.3 The Doctrine of Prejudice
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 10.4 The Moral Code of the Fraternity10.5 Conclusion; Chapter 11: The Social Background of Classical Science; 11.1 Researchers as Amateurs; 11.2 Researchers as Experts; 11.3 Researchers as Inventors; 11.4 Researchers as Dilettantes; Chapter 12: The Missing Link Between Bacon and the Royal Society; 12.1 The Rise of the Royal Society; 12.2 Boyle's Spirit; 12.3 Boyle's Views on the Spread of Science; Chapter 13: Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity; 13.1 The Eighteenth Century; 13.2 Herschel's Unfair Comment; 13.3 Who Discovered Boyle's Law?; 13.4 Modern Views on Boyle; 13.5 Conclusion
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 14: The Inductive Style14.1 The Discussion of Style; 14.2 The Inductive Style Versus the Argumentative Style; 14.3 Reporting on Experiments and Writing Systems; 14.4 Boyle on some Systems; 14.5 Thinking and Experimenting; 14.6 The Inductive Style; 14.7 Encyclopedia of Facts or a Just History of Nature; 14.8 Boyle's Promiscuous Experiments; 14.9 Boyle on Attempts to Create some Theories; 14.10 Methodological Tolerance; 14.11 The Usefulness of Hypotheses; 14.12 Civilized Argument; 14.13 Boyle on the Method of Quoting; 14.14 Circumstantial Descriptions A: The Problem
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 14.15 Circumstantial Descriptions B: Recent Solutions
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface -- Acknowledgement -- PART I: BACONS DOCTRINE OF PREJUDICE -- (A study in a Renaissance Religion) Introductory Note -- I The Riddle of Bacon -- (1)  The Problem of Methodology -- (2)    II Bacon’s Philosophy of Discovery -- III Ellis’ Major Difficulty -- IV The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice -- V Bacon on the origin of error and prejudice -- VI Prejudices of the Senses -- VII Prejudices of Opinions -- VIII Bacon’s Influence -- IX Conclusion: The rise of the commonwealth of learning -- PART II: A RELIGION OF INDUCTIVISM AS A LIVING FORCE -- A Quasi-Terminological Note -- On the recent literature -- Homage to Robert Boyle -- I Background Material -- II The social background of classical science -- III The Missing Link between Bacon and the Royal Society of London -- IV Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity -- V The Inductive Style -- VI Mechanism -- VII The new doctrine of prejudice -- Appendices. ​.
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    ISBN: 1283698137 , 9789400750432 , 9781283698139
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    Serie: Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H.L. van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives 207
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938
    Kurzfassung: The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America. Based on his intimate knowledge of Husserl's published writings and unpublished manuscripts and on the many conversations and discussions he had with Husserl and Fink during his stay in Freiburg i. Br. in 1931-1932. Cairns's dissertation is a comprehensive exposition of the methodological foundations and the concrete phenomenological analyses of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology. The lucidity and precision of Cairns's presentation is remarkable and demonstrates the secure grasp he had of Husserl's philosophical intentions and phenomenological distinctions. Starting from the phenomenological reduction and Husserl's Idea of Philosophy, Cairns proceeds with a detailed analysis of intentionality and the intentional structures of consciousness. In its scope and in the depth and nuance of its understanding, Cairns's dissertation belongs beside the writings on Husserl by Levinas and Fink from the same period
    Kurzfassung: The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America.Based on his intimate knowledge of Husserl’s published writings and unpublished manuscripts and on the many conversations and discussions he had with Husserl and Fink during his stay in Freiburg i. Br. in 1931-1932. Cairns’s dissertation is a comprehensive exposition of the methodological foundations and the concrete phenomenological analyses of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology. The lucidity and precision of Cairns’s presentation is remarkable and demonstrates the secure grasp he had of Husserl’s philosophical intentions and phenomenological distinctions. Starting from the phenomenological reduction and Husserl’s Idea of Philosophy, Cairns proceeds with a detailed analysis of intentionality and the intentional structures of consciousness. In its scope and in the depth and nuance of its understanding, Cairns’s dissertation belongs beside the writings on Husserl by Levinas and Fink from the same period.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Summary6; Contents; Chapter 1: The Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction: Husserl's Concept of the Idea of Philosophy; Appendix; Chapter 2: General Nature of Intentionality; Chapter 3: General Structure of the Act-Correlate*; Chapter 4: Thetic Quality; Chapter 5: Act-Horizon; Chapter 6: Founded Structures; Chapter 7: Direct and Indirect, Impressional and Reproductive, Consciousness; Chapter 8: Evidence; Chapter 9: Fulfilment; Chapter 10: Pure Possibility; Chapter 11: Recapitulation and Program
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 12: The Egological ReductionChapter 13: Primordial Sense-Perception; Chapter 14: Primordial Sense-Perception (Continued); Chapter 15: The Founding Strata of Primordial Sense-Perception; Chapter 16: The Constitution of Immanent Objects, and the General Nature of Association; Chapter 17: Spontaneity in General Attention; Chapter 18: Doxic Explication; Chapter 19: The Ego-Aspect of Evidence and the Evidence of Reflection; Chapter 20: Syntactical Acts and Syntactical Objects; Chapter 21: The Eidos and the Apriori; Chapter 22: Value Objects and Practical Objects
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 23: Conceptualization and ExpressionChapter 24: The Transcendental Ego; Chapter 25: The Transcendental Monad; Chapter 26: The Other Mind and the Intersubjective World; Chapter 27: Conclusion; Index;
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1. The Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction: Husserl's concept of the Idea of Philosophy -- a. Appendix to Chapter 1 -- 2. General Nature of Intentionality -- 3. General Structure of the Act-Correlate -- 4. Thetic Quality -- 5. Act-Horizon -- 6. Founded Structures -- 7. Direct and Indirect, Impressional and Reproductive, Consciousness -- 8. Evidence -- 9. Fulfilment -- 10. Pure Possibility -- 11. Recapitulation and Program. 12. The Egological Reduction -- 13. Primordial Sense-Perception.-  14. Primordial Sense-Perception (Continued) -- 15. The Founding Strata of Primordial Sense-Perception -- 16. The Constitution of Immanent Objects, and the General Nature of Association.-  17. Spontaneity in General Attention -- 18. Doxic Explication -- 19. The Ego-Aspect of Evidence and the Evidence of Reflection -- 20. Syntactical Acts and Syntactical Objects -- 21. The Eidos and the Apriori -- 22. Value Objects and Practical Objects.-  23. Conceptualization and Expression.-  24. The Transcendental Ego.-  25. The Transcendental Monad -- 26. The Other Mind and the Intersubjective World -- 27. Conclusion.​.
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    Serie: Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society 3
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    Schlagwort(e): Science Philosophy ; Neurosciences ; Neurology ; Neurobiology ; Engineering ; Science Philosophy ; Neurowissenschaften
    Kurzfassung: I. Introduction and key resources -- 1. Nanotechnology, the brain, and the future: Anticipatory governance via end-to-end real-time technology assessment Jason Scott Robert, Ira Bennett, and Clark A. Miller -- 2. The complex cognitive systems manifesto Richard P. W. Loosemore -- 3. Analysis of bibliometric data for research at the intersection of nanotechnology and neuroscience Christina Nulle, Clark A. Miller, Harmeet Singh, and Alan Porter -- 4. Public attitudes toward nanotechnology-enabled human enhancement in the United States Sean Hays, Michael Cobb, and Clark A. Miller -- 5. U.S. news coverage of neuroscience nanotechnology: How U.S. newspapers have covered neuroscience nanotechnology during the last decade Doo-Hun Choi, Anthony Dudo, and Dietram Scheufele -- 6. Nanoethics and the brain Valerye Milleson -- 7. Nanotechnology and religion: A dialogue Tobie Milford -- II. Brain repair -- 8. The age of neuroelectronics Adam Keiper -- 9. Cochlear implants and Deaf culture Derrick Anderson -- 10. Healing the blind: Attitudes of blind people toward technologies to cure blindness Arielle Silverman -- 11. Ethical, legal and social aspects of brain-implants using nano-scale materials and techniques Francois Berger et al. -- 12. Nanotechnology, the brain, and personal identity Stephanie Naufel -- III. Brain enhancement -- 13. Narratives of intelligence: the sociotechnical context of cognitive enhancement Sean Hays -- 14. Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy Henry T. Greeley et al. -- 15. The opposite of human enhancement: Nanotechnology and the blind chicken debate Paul B. Thompson -- 16. Anticipatory governance of human enhancement: The National Citizens’ Technology Forum Patrick Hamlett, Michael Cobb, and David Guston a. Arizona site report b. California site report c. Colorado site reportd. Georgia site report e. New Hampshire site report f. Wisconsin site report -- IV. Brain damage -- 17. A review of nanoparticle functionality and toxicity on the central nervous system Yang et al. -- 18. Recommendations for a municipal health and safety policy for nanomaterials: A Report to the City of Cambridge City Manager Sam Lipson -- 19. Museum of Science Nanotechnology Forum lets participants be the judge Mark Griffin -- 20. Nanotechnology policy and citizen engagement in Cambridge, Massachusetts: Local reflexive governance Shannon Conley.-
    Kurzfassung: Our brain is the source of everything that makes us human: language, creativity, rationality, emotion, communication, culture, politics. The neurosciences have given us, in recent decades, fundamental new insights into how the brain works and what that means for how we see ourselves as individuals and as communities. Now - with the help of new advances in nanotechnology - brain science proposes to go further: to study its molecular foundations, to repair brain functions, to create mind-machine interfaces, and to enhance human mental capacities in radical ways. This book explores the convergence of these two revolutionary scientific fields and the implications of this convergence for the future of human societies. In the process, the book offers a significant new approach to technology assessment, one which operates in real-time, alongside the innovation process, to inform the ways in which new fields of science and technology emerge in, get shaped by, and help shape human societies
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    ISBN: 9789400750678 , 1299198147 , 9781299198142
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    Paralleltitel: Buchausg. u.d.T. The structural links between ecology, evolution and ethics
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; History ; Congresses ; Ecology ; History ; Congresses ; Environmental ethics ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Ökologie ; Evolution ; Ethik ; Bioethik ; Ökologie ; Evolutionsbiologie
    Kurzfassung: Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental policy management has gradually but radically changed the relationship between these disciplines. Over the last decades in particular, there has emerged a need for an interconnecting meta-paradigm that integrates more strictly evolutionary studies, biodiversity studies and the ethical frameworks that are most appropriate for allowing a lasting co-evolution between natural and social systems. Today such a need is more than a mere luxury, it is an epistemological and practical necessity.In short, the authors of this volume address some of the foundational themes that interconnect evolutionary studies, ecology and ethics. Here they have chosen to analyze a topic using one of these specific disciplines as a kind of epistemological platform with specific links to topics from one or both of the remaining disciplines
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Structural Linksbetween Ecology, Evolution and Ethics; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Ecology, Evolution, Ethics: In Search of a Meta-paradigm - An Introduction; 1.1 Some Landmarks of an Interweaved History of Ecology, Evolution and Ethics; 1.2 Looking for an Epistemic and Practical Meta-paradigm: The Transactional Framework; 1.3 Evolution between Ethics and Creationism; 1.4 Chance and Time between Evolution and Ecology; 1.5 Ethics between Ecology and Evolution; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Evolution Versus Creation: A Sibling Rivalry?
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2.1 Before The Origin2.2 Charles Darwin; 2.3 The Darwinian Evangelist; 2.4 The Twenty-first Century; References; Chapter 3: Evolution and Chance; 3.1 Three Meanings of the Concept of Chance; 3.1.1 Luck; 3.1.2 Random Events; 3.1.3 Contingency with Respect to a Theoretical System; 3.2 Modalities of Chance in the Biology of Evolution; 3.2.1 Mutation; 3.2.2 Random Genetic Drift; 3.2.3 Genetic Revolution; 3.2.4 The Ecosystem Level; 3.2.5 The Macroevolutionary Level (Paleobiology); 3.2.6 Other Cases; 3.3 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Some Conceptions of Time in Ecology
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 4.1 Scales of Time4.2 The Chronological Issue; 4.3 Crop Rotation; 4.4 Succession and Equilibrium; 4.5 Irreversibility and Unpredictability; 4.6 Persistence and Anticipation; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Facts, Values, and Analogies: A Darwinian Approach to Environmental Choice; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Naturalism: The Method of Experience; 5.3 An Empirical Hypothesis; 5.4 Scaling and Environmental Problem Formulation; 5.5 Darwin and Environmental Ethics; Note; References; Chapter 6: Towards EcoEvoEthics; 6.1 An Equilibrium World and the Ecosystem Paradigm
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6.2 Protection of Nature: The Path to Ecology6.3 Ecocentrism, the Ethical Counterpart of the Ecosystem Paradigm; 6.4 Ecology Meets Evolution: The Co-change Paradigm; 6.5 An Eco-evolutionary Ethics Is Needed; 6.6 Uniqueness, Diversity, and Evolutionary Values; 6.7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Ecology and Moral Ontology; 7.1 The Superorganism Paradigm in Ecology; 7.2 The Ecosystem Paradigm in Ecology; 7.3 The Rise and Fall of Ecosystems as Superorganisms; 7.4 Organisms as Superecosystems; 7.5 Classical and Recent Expressions of the Organism as Superecosystem Concept
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 7.6 From a Modern to a Post-modern Moral Ontology7.7 Post-modern Ecological Moral Ontology: Toward an Erotic Ethic; References; Chapter 8: Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics; 8.1 Defining Characteristics of Moral Rights; 8.1.1 ``No Trespassing´´; 8.1.2 Equality; 8.1.3 Trump; 8.1.4 Respect; 8.2 Who Has Moral Rights?; 8.2.1 Subjects-of-a-Life; 8.2.2 Animal Rights; 8.3 A Number of Environmentally-based Objections Have Been Raised Against the Rights View2; 8.3.1 The Rights View and Predator-Prey Relations; 8.3.2 The Rights View and Endangered Species; Notes; References
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 9: Reconciling Individualist and Deeper Environmentalist Theories? An Exploration
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    ISBN: 9789400744080 , 1280996870 , 9781280996870
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    Kurzfassung: The first part deals with philosophies that have had a significant input, positive or negative, on the search for truth; it suggests that scientific and technological are either stimulated or smothered by a philosophical matrix; and it outlines two ontological doctrines believed to have nurtured research in modern times: systemism (not to be mistaken for holism) and materialism (as an extension of physicalism). The second part discusses a few practical problems that are being actively discussed in the literature, from climatology and information science to economics and legal philosophy. This discussion is informed by the general principles analyzed in the first part of the book. Some of the conclusions are that standard economic theory is just as inadequate as Marxism; that law and order are weak without justice; and that the central equation of normative climatology is a tautologywhich of course does not put climate change in doubt. The third and final part of the book tackles a set of key concepts, such as those of indicator, energy, and existence, that have been either taken for granted or neglected. For instance, it is argued that there is at least one existence predicate, and that it is unrelated to the so-called existential quantifier; that high level hypotheses cannot be put to the test unless conjoined with indicator hypotheses; and that induction cannot produce high level hypotheses because empirical data do not contain any transempirical concepts. Realism, materialism, and systemism are thus refined and vindicated.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Evaluating Philosophies; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Part I: How to Nurture or Hinder Research; Chapter 1: Philosophies and Phobosophies; 1.1 Midwives; 1.2 Teachers; 1.3 Gatekeepers; 1.4 Wardens and Prisoners; 1.5 Cheated; 1.6 Mercenary; 1.7 Escapist; 1.8 Ambivalent; 1.9 Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Philosophical Matrix of Scientific Progress; 2.1 From Skepticism to Mysterianism; 2.2 The Social Matrix; 2.3 The Role of Philosophy in the Birth of Modern Science; 2.4 Materialism, Systemism, Dynamicism, and Realism; 2.5 First Parenthesis: The Ossification of Philosophy
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2.6 Scientism, Rationalism, and Humanism2.7 Second Parenthesis: Logical Imperialism; 2.8 The Philosophical Pentagon; 2.9 Irregular Pentagons; 2.10 From Social Science to Sociotechnology; 2.11 Dogmatic and Programmatic Isms; 2.12 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: Systemics and Materialism; 3.1 The Housing Problem: A Component of a Ten-Dimensional Problem; 3.2 Approach; 3.3 Preliminary Examples; 3.4 Systemic Approach and Theory; 3.5 Natural Sciences; 3.6 Social Sciences; 3.7 Biosocial Sciences; 3.8 Technologies; 3.9 The Knowledge System; 3.10 Philosophical Systems
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3.11 Concluding RemarksReferences; Part II: Philosophy in Action; Chapter 4: Technoscience?; 4.1 Discovery and Invention; 4.2 Primacy of Praxis?; 4.3 Consequences of the Confusión; 4.4 "Translation" of Science into Industry via Technology; 4.5 Authentic Technosciences; 4.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Climate and Logic; 5.1 The Kaya Identity; 5.2 From Logic to Reality; 5.3 A New Formula; 5.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Informatics : One or Multiple?; 6.1 From Information System to Communication System; 6.2 Back to Information; 6.3 Conclusion; References
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 7: Wealth and Well-being, Economic Growth and Integral Development7.1 Is Happiness for Sale?; 7.2 Can Well-Being Be Bought?; 7.3 The Problem of Inequality; 7.4 Sectoral Growth and Integral Development; 7.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 8: Can Standard Economic Theory Account for Crises?; 8.1 Standard Economics Focuses on Equilibrium; 8.2 The Economic Rationality Postulate; 8.3 The Free Market Postulate; 8.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Marxist Philosophy: Promise and Reality; 9.1 Dialectical Materialism; 9.2 Hegel's Disastrous Legacy; 9.3 Historical Materialism
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 9.4 Epistemology and the Sociology of Knowledge9.5 Theory and Praxis, Apriorism and Pragmatism; 9.6 State and Planning; 9.7 Dictatorship and Disaster; 9.8 Conclusion; References; Chapter 10: Rules of Law: Just and Unjust; 10.1 Politics, Law, and Morals; 10.2 Legal Legitimacy; 10.3 Political Legitimacy; 10.4 Moral Legitimacy and Legitimacy Tout Court; 10.5 Emergencies; 10.6 If You Wish Order, Prepare for Disorder; 10.7 The Ultimate Test: The Rise of Nazism; 10.8 Legal Positivism: Fig Leaf of Authoritarianism; 10.9 Conclusion; References; Part III: Philosophical Gaps
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chapter 11: Subjective Probabilities: Admissible in Science?
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    Serie: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective 2
    Paralleltitel: Print version Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
    DDC: 501
    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Ontology ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy
    Kurzfassung: This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009. five general topics are addressed: 1. Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science, 2. Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences, 3. Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences, 4. Philosophy of the Physical Sciences, 5. History of the Philosophy of Science. This volume is accordingly divided in five sections, each section containing papers coming from the meetings focussing on one of these five themes. However, these sections are not completely independent and detached from each other. For example, an important connecting thread running through a substantial number of papers in this volume is the concept of probability: probability plays a central role in present-day discussions in formal epistemology, in the philosophy of the physical sciences, and in general methodological debates---it is central in discussions concerning explanation, prediction and confirmation. The volume thus also attempts to represent the intellectual exchange between the various fields in the philosophy of science that was central in the ESF workshops.
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE:EXPLANATION, PREDICTION, CONFIRMATION; Team A Formal Methods; THE NO MIRACLES INTUITION AND THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT; 1. THE NO MIRACLES INTUITION; 2. THE 'NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT'; THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT1; REFERENCES; CAUSATION, ASSOCIATION AND CONFIRMATION; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. COHERENCE AS PROBABILISITIC ASSOCIATION; 3. CONFIRMATION; 4. CETERUS PARIBUS; 5. FOCUSED CORRELATION; 6. CAUSAL STRUCTURE; 7. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; AN OBJECTIVE BAYESIAN ACCOUNT OF CONFIRMATION; ABSTRACT; 1 CARNAPIAN CONFIRMATION
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2 THE BAYESIAN APPROACH TO CONFIRMATION3 LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE; 4 CARNAP'S RESOLUTION; 5 PROBLEMS WITH CARNAP'S RESOLUTION; 6 A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE; 7 THE BAYESIAN APPROACH REVISITED; 8 OBJECTIVE BAYESIAN EPISTEMOLOGY; 9 OBJECTIVE BAYESIAN CONFIRMATION THEORY; BIBILIOGRAPHY; AN EXPLICATION OF THE USE OF INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION ; 1. PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS OF IBE; 2. HEURISTICS; 3. APPLYING THE LOGIC OF QUESTIONS: PRELIMINARIES; 4. TWO COMPARATIVE CRITERIA OF EXPLANATORY POWER; 5. APPLICATIONS TO SOME PERSISTENT QUESTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: A FORMAL LOGIC FOR THE ABDUCTION OF SINGULAR HYPOTHESES11 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE PROBLEM; 3 MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF ABDUCTIVE REASONING; 4 INFORMAL PRESENTATION OF THE LOGIC LArs; 5 THE LOGIC LArs; 6 CONCLUSION AND OPEN PROBLEMS; PROBABILITIES IN BRANCHING STRUCTURES; REAL AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES; PROBABILITIES IN BRANCHING TIME; EXTENDING THE ACCOUNT: BRANCHING SPACE-TIMES; CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Team B Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences ; CAUSALITY AND EXPLANATION: ISSUES FROM EPIDEMIOLOGY; 1. EPIDEMIOLOGY PARADIGMS; 2. OVERCOMING THE BLACK BOX PARADIGM. THE SEARCH FOR MECHANISMS
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 3. MECHANISTIC EXPLANATIONS OF LAYERED DISEASESINVARIANCE, MECHANISMS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY; REFERENCES; WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE PRAGMATIC-ONTIC ACCOUNT OF MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION?; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. WORRIES; 3. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CAUSALITY AND EVIDENCE DISCOVERY IN EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXISTENCE AND CAUSALITY; NON-RANDOMISED EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INFERENCES TO CAUSAL RELEVANCE FROM EXPERIMENTS; 1 THEORY AND EXPERIENCE; 2 CAUSAL ANALYSIS; 2.1 Causal models; 2.2 Theory of causal regularities; 2.3 Principles of causal reasoning; 2.3.1 Method of Difference; 2.3.2 Assumptions
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2.3.3 Inferring a causal factor2.3.4 More complex designs; 2.3.5 Other inference patterns; 2.4 Difference tests in practice: notebook entries; 3 METHODOLOGY OF CAUSAL MODELS; REFERENCES; COMPARING PART-WHOLE REDUCTIVE EXPLANATIONS IN BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS1; ABSTRACT; 1. BIOLOGY, PHYSICS, AND NAGEL'S REDUCTIONIST SHADOW; 2. TEMPORALITY IN PART-WHOLE REDUCTIVE EXPLANATIONS; 2.1 Part-Whole Reductive Explanations; 2.2 Temporality; 3. COMPOSITION, CAUSATION, AND THE DIFFERENCE TIME MAKES; 3.1 Composition and Causation; 3.2 Intrinsicality and Fundamentality
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 4. EXAMPLES: PART-WHOLE REDUCTIVE EXPLANATIONS IN BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I / Symposium: Space, Time and Matter: The Foundations of Geometrodynamics -- Space, Time, and Matter: The Foundations of Geometrodynamics. Introductory Remarks -- Some Topics for Philosophical Inquiry Concerning the Theories of Mathematical Geometrodynamics and of Physical Geometrodynamics -- The Rise and Fall of Geometrodynamics -- II / Philosophical Problems of Biology and Psychology -- Elsasser, Generalized Complementarity, and Finite Classes: A Critique of His Anti-Reductionism -- Complexity and Organization -- B. F. Skinner — The Butcher, The Baker, The Behavior-Shaper -- III / Symposium: Fundamental Problems in the Concept of Randomness -- Fundamental Problems in the Concept of Randomness. Dedication to Leonard J. Savage -- Randomness and Knowledge -- Random Thoughts about Randomness -- Randomness -- IV / Historical Issues in the Philosophy of Science -- Kant, the Dynamical Tradition, and the Role of Matter in Explanation -- V / Philosophical Problems of the Social Sciences -- The Operation Called Verstehen: Towards a Redefinition of the Problem -- On Popper’s Philosophy of Social Science -- Monistic Theories of Society -- VI / Symposium: Values, Ideology and Objectivity in the Social Sciences -- The Exact Role of Value Judgments in Science -- VII / Philosophical Problems of the Physical Sciences -- A Dilemma for the Traditional Interpretation of Quantum Mixtures -- Nowness and the Understanding of Time -- VIII / Symposium: Modality and the Analysis of Scientific Propositions -- On the Usefulness of Modal Logic in Axiomatizations of Physics -- The Essential but Implicit Role of Modal Concepts in Science -- Comments on Suppes’ Paper: The Essential but Implicit Role of Modal Concepts in Science -- Bressan and Suppes on Modality -- Replies to van Fraassen’s Comments: Bressan and Suppes on Modality -- IX / Scientific Explanation -- Statistical Explanations -- The Objects of Acceptance: Competing Scientific Explanations -- X / Truth and Realism in Science -- Is Scientific Realism a Contingent Thesis? -- Realist Foundations of Measurement -- XI / Symposium: Discovery, Rationality and Progress in Science -- Rationality and Scientific Discovery -- Discovery, Rationality, and Progress in Science: A Perspective in the Philosophy of Science -- XII / Inductive Logic -- Rationality Between the Maximizers and the Satisficers.
    Kurzfassung: This book contains selected papers from symposia and contributed sessions presented at the third biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Lansing, Michigan, on October 27-29, 1972. We are grateful to Michigan State University, and especially to Professor Peter Asquith and his students and colleagues, for their friendly and efficient hospitality in organizing the circumstances of the sessions and of the 'intersessions', the unscheduled free time which is so important to any scholarly gathering. Several of the symposium papers have unhappily not been made available: those of Alasdair MacIntyre and Sidney Morgenbesser in the session on the social sciences, that of Ian Hacking in the session on randomness and that of Imre Lakatos in the session on discovery and rationality in science. Department of History and KENNETH F. SCHAFFNER Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy and ROBERT S. COHEN History of Science, Boston University TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE v PART I/SYMPOSIUM: SPACE, TIME AND MATTER: THE FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRODYNAMICS ADOLF GRUNBAUM / Space, Time, and Matter: The Foundations of Geometrodynamics. Introductory Remarks 3 CHARLES W. MISNER / Some Topics for Philosophical Inquiry Concerning the Theories of Mathematical Geometrodynamics and of Physical Geometrodynamics 7 JOHN STACHEL / The Rise and Fall of Geometrodynamics 31 PART II / PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY STUART KAUFFMAN / Elsasser, Generalized Complementarity, and Finite Classes: A Critique of His Anti-Reductionism 57 WILLIAM C.
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    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I/The Anatomy of Acquired Disorders of Reading (1962) -- II/Random Reports: Human Split-Brain Syndromes (1962) -- III/A Human Cerebral Deconnection Syndrome (1962) -- IV/Carl Wernicke, the Breslau School and the History of Aphasia (1963) -- V/The Paradoxical Position of Kurt Goldstein in the History of Aphasia (1964) -- VI/Non-Aphasic Disorders of Speech (1964) -- VII/The Development of the Brain and the Evolution of Language (1964) -- VIII/Disconnexion Syndromes in Animals and Man (1965) -- IX/Color-Naming Defects in Association with Alexia (1966) -- X/Language-Induced Epilepsy (1967) -- XI/The Varieties of Naming Errors (1967) -- XII/Wernicke’s Contribution to the Study of Aphasia (1967) -- XIII/Shrinking Retrograde Amnesia (1967) -- XIV/The Apraxias (1967) -- XV/Dichotic Listening in Man after Section of Neocortical Commissures (1968) -- XVI/Isolation of the Speech Area (1968) -- XVII/Human Brain: Left-Right Asymmetries in Temporal Speech Region (1968) -- XVIII/Developmental Gerstmann Syndrome (1969) -- XIX/The Alexias (1969) -- XX/Problems in the Anatomical Understanding of the Aphasias (1969) -- XXI/The Organization of Language and the Brain (1970) -- XXII/Disorders of Higher Cortical Function in Children (1972) -- XXIII/Writing Disturbances in Acute Confusional States (1972) -- XXIV/A Review: Traumatic Aphasia by A. R. Luria (1972) -- XXV/Conduction Aphasia. (1973) -- XXVI/Apraxia and Agraphia in a Left-Hander (1973) -- Index of Names.
    Kurzfassung: Philosophers of science work not only with the methods of the sciences but with their contents as well. Substantive issues concerning the relation between mind and matter, between the material basis and the functions of cognition, have been central within the entire history of philosophy. We recall such philosophers as Aristotle, Descartes, the early Kant, Ernst Mach, and the early William James as directly inquiring of the organs and structures of thinking. Science and its philosophical self-criticism are especially and deeply united in the effort to understand the biological brain and human behavior, and so it requires no apology to include this collection of clinical studies among Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. The work of Dr. Norman Geschwind, well represented in this selection, explores the relation between structure and function, between the anatomy of the brain and the 'higher' behavior of men and women. As a clinical neurologist, Geschwind was led to these studies particularly by his in­ terest in those pathologies which have to do with human perception and language. His research into the anatomical substrates of specific dis­ orders-and strikingly the aphasias -present a fascinating and provocative examination of fundamental questions which will concern not neurologists alone but also psychologists, physicians, linguists, speech pathologists, educators, anthropologists, historians of medicine, and philosophers, among others, namely all those interested in the characteristic modes of human activity, in speech, in perception, and in the learning process generally.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I. Common Traits of the Classical Systems of Ethics: An Introductory Letter About what will not be Said -- II. Five Epistemological Notes About Good and Evil -- 1. The Development of a Person’s Sense of Morality -- 2. The Ideals -- 3. The Logical Role of the Ideals -- 4. The Essence of the Good. The Meaningless -- 5. The Development of the Epistemology of Morality -- III. The Ethics of Decisions: A Dialog on Demystified Ethics -- 1. Whether investigations according to the principles suggested in the preceding notes belong to ethics at all -- 2. Whether there do not exist still other ethical questions -- 3. Whether ethics is analogous to geometry -- 4. Whether systems of norms might not be combined by logical operations -- 5. Whether decisions are the only basis for morality -- 6. Whether rational foundations for decisions are possible -- 7. What role faith plays in morality -- 8. What demystified ethics might be able to achieve… -- 9. … except for a logic of norms -- 10. … and except for a logic of desires -- IV. Five Logico-mathematical Notes on Voluntary Associations -- 1. The Partitions of People Induced by Norms -- 2. Duality -- 3. Disjunctive Norms -- 4. A Person’s Demands on Himself and on Others -- 5. Several Modes of Behavior -- V. Logic, Imagination, Reality, Evaluations: A Concluding Letter about what has been said -- Postscript to the English Edition -- Karl Menger: Principal Dates -- Fields of Research -- Publications in Book Form.
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    ISBN: 9789401021159
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I/Mathematics -- The Lemniscate of Bernoulli -- Summation of Series of Fractions Depending upon the Roots of the Airy Function -- Wave Propagation in Non-Viscous Fluids -- Polyhedral Numbers -- Materialist Mathematics -- Skew Curves Setting up a Null System in Space -- Über ein Beispiel zur unbestimmten Analytik und seine allgemeine Bedeutung -- Remarks on Two-By-Two Matric Semigroups -- A Unified Approach to Hypernumbers -- Some Remarks on the Concept of Limit -- La notion de fonction chez Condorcet -- II/History of Mathematics and Science -- The Modern Use of Historical Chinese Solar Observations -- The Second Part of Chapter 5 of the De arte mensurandi by Johannes de Muris -- Isaac Newton, the Calculus of Variations, and the Design of Ships. An Example of Pure Mathematics in Newton’s Principia, Allegedly Developed for the Sake of Practical Applications -- The Impact of von Staudt’s Foundations of Geometry -- Georg Samuel Dörffel -- Observational, Rational and Scientific Medicine in Mexico -- History of Science: A Subject for the Frustrated. Recent Japanese Experience -- The Relation between Eudoxus’ Theory of Proportions and Dedekind’s Theory of Cuts -- Rheticus as Editor of Sacrobosco -- Is Euclid on the Skids? -- John Pell’s English Edition of J. H. Rahn’s Teutsche Algebra -- Could the Specific Heat of the Elements Have Contributed to the Discovery of the Periodic System? -- III/The Nature Of Mathematics, Philosophy and Science -- Die Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschung an der Akademie der Wissenschaften der D.D.R. — Ergebnisse und Ziele -- Ethics and Science -- A Religion of Earth. The Twentieth Century Scientific Revolution and Organized Religion -- Some Heretical Ideas with Respect to Mathematics and Physics -- A Note on Robert Hodes -- Aims and Methods of Scientific Research -- The Concept of ‘Simplicity’ in the Physico-Mathematical Sciences -- Should Science Survive Its Success? -- Jonathan Edwards on the Freedom of the Will -- The Accelerator and the Virgin: The Rise & Fall of Two Cults -- A Note on the Concept of Scientific Practice -- Ideology, Expression, and Mediation -- Is Science Rational? -- On the Philosophical Meaning of Observational Errors -- IV/Cultural and Political Questions -- Falsification in History -- The Evolution of Black Nationalism (1971) -- The Secret of Jheronimus Bosch -- Self-Determination in Theory and Practice -- The Appeal of Marxism in the United States -- Relative Values and the Quest for Socio-Political Standards -- Dirk Struik and the Sociology of Science -- What Is Burgerlijk? Analysis of a Dutch Concept -- American Anti-Imperialism and the Russian Revolution -- Lenin and the Americans at Kuzbas -- Pre-School Education and Its Role in Social Change: A New Zealand Example -- Toward a Critique of Economics.
    Kurzfassung: It is fitting that Professor Dirk Jan Struik be greeted with this melange of mathematical, scientific, historical, sociological and political essays. The authors are also appropriately varied: different countries, outlooks, religions, generations, and we suppose - of course we did not as- different politics too. Many more would have joined us, we know, but the good friends in this book make a fine and representative assembly of the intersection of two (mathematical!) classes: affectionately respect­ ful admirers of Dirk Struik, and the best thinkers of this troubled century. Struik has been among the most steadfast supporters of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, that discussion group which we have been holding at Boston University since 1960, but his luminous collaboration has been welcome, in Boston and Cambridge, for nearly five decades among mathematicians, physicists, philosophical and political thinkers, and especially among the students. It has not mattered whether they have been his own students or not, whether at M.LT. or elsewhere, whether scholars or dropouts, nature-lovers or book worms, anarchists or Republicans, Catholics or Unitarians, Communists or communists, prim or liberated. No doubt he has his preferences! But the main thing for Struik has been to educate and respect the other person.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I. The Historical Significance of the Idea of Geometrical Analysis -- II. Pappus on the Direction of Analysis and Synthesis -- III. What Pappus Says and What He Does: A Comparison and an Example -- IV. Analysis as Analysis of Figures: The Logic of the Analytical Method -- V. The Role of Auxiliary Constructions -- VI. The Problem of the ‘Resolution’ -- VII. Analysis as Analysis of Figures: Pappus’ Terminology and His Practice -- VIII. Pappus and the Tradition of Geometrical Analysis -- IX. On the Significance of the Method of Analysis in Early Modern Science -- Appendix I Árpád K. Szabò/Working Backwards and Proving by Synthesis -- Appendix II Reply to Professor Szabò -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Passages.
    Kurzfassung: As official sponsors of the First International Conference in the History and Philosophy of Science, the two Divisions of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science owe a great deal to the University of Jyvliskyla and the 1973 Jyvliskylli Summer Festival for the extra­ ordinarily generous hospitality they provided. But there is an additional debt owed, not simply for the locale but for the very substance of the Conference, to the two Finnish scholars who have jointly authored the present volume. For this volume represents not only the first part of the published proceedings of this First International Conference in the History and Philosophy of Science, but also, most fittingly, the paper that opened the Conference itself. Yet the appropriateness of the paper from which this book has resulted opening the Conference lies far less in the fact that it was a contribution by two Finnish authors to a meeting hosted in Finland than it does to the fact that this paper, and now the present book, comes to grips in an extreme­ ly direct way with the very problem the whole Conference was from the outset designed to treat. Generally put, this problem was to bring to­ gether a number of historians and philosophers of science whose contrib­ uted papers would bear witness to the ways in which the two disciplines can be, and are, of value to each other.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Science—Philosophy. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Kurzfassung: I / Causes -- II / Three Aspects of Perception -- III / Biology and the Problem of Levels of Reality -- IV / Reducibility: Another Side Issue? -- V / Aristotle and Modern Biology -- VI / Is Genus to Species as Matter to Form? Aristotle and Taxonomy -- VII / Two Evolutionary Theories -- VIII / Statistics and Selection -- IX / Biology and Teleology -- X / Bohm’s Metaphysics and Biology -- XI / Darwin and Philosophy -- XII / The Ethical Animal: a Review -- XIII / Explanation and Evolution -- XIV / On the Nature of Natural Necessity -- XV / On Some Distinctions Between Men and Brutes -- XVI / The Characters of Living Things. I: The Biological Philosophy of Adolf Portmann -- XVII / The Characters of Living Things. II: The Phenomenology of Erwin Straus -- XVIII / The Characters of Living Things. III: Helmuth Plessner’s Theory of Organic Modals -- XIX / People and Other Animals.
    Kurzfassung: No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally sure knowledge in the classical domain of philosophy and in modern epistemological inquiry, equally philosopher of science and metaphysician. Moreover, she has the deeply sensible notion that she should be a critically intelligent learner as much as an imaginatively original thinker, and as a result she has brought insightful expository readings of other philosophers and scientists to her own work. We were most fortunate that Marjorie Grene was willing to spend a full semester of a recent leave here in Boston, and we have on other occasions sought her participation in our colloquia and elsewhere. Now we have the pleasure of including among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science this generous selection from Grene's philosophical inquiries into the understanding of the natural world, and of the men and women in it. Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. W ARTOFSKY April 1974 PREFACE This collection spans - spottily - years from 1946 ('On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes') to 1974 ('On the Nature of Natural Necessity').
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    Kurzfassung: One -- I. Reason and the Art of Living in Plato -- II. On Knowing the Better and Doing the Worse -- III. Some Remarks on Kant’s Theory of Experience -- IV. “… this 1 or he or it (the thing) which thinks…” -- Two -- V. Language as Thought and as Communication -- VI. Reply to Marras -- VII. Some Problems About Belief -- VIII. Reply to Quine -- IX. Conceptual Change -- X. Actions and Events -- XI. Metaphysics and the Concept of a Person -- Three -- XII. Empiricism and Abstract Entities -- XIII. On the Introduction of Abstract Entities -- XIV. Toward a Theory of the Categories -- XV. Classes as Abstract Entities and the Russell Paradox -- Four -- XVI. Induction as Vindication -- XVII. Are there Non-Deductive Logics? -- XVIII. Theoretical Explanation -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Kurzfassung: In pulling these essays together for inclusion in one volume I do not believe that I have done them violence. Since they originally appeared at different times and places they constitute a scattered object. Never­ theless, to the author's eye they have unities of theme and development which, if they fail to give them the true identity of the book, may (to adapt a metaphor from Hume) generate those smooth and easy transi­ tions of the imagination which arouse dispositions appropriate to sur­ veying such identical objects. For the juxtaposition of historical and systematic studies I make no apology. It has been suggested, with a friendly touch of malice, that if Science and Metaphysics consists, as its subtitle proclaims, of Variations on Kantian Themes, it would be no less accurate to sub-title my historical essays 'variations on Sellars ian themes'. But this is as it should be. Phi­ losophy is a continuing dialogue with one's contemporaries, living and dead, and if one fails to see oneself in one's respondent and one's re­ spondent in oneself, there is confrontation but no dialogue. The historian, as Collingwood points out, becomes Caesar's contemporary by learning to think Caesar's thoughts. And it is because Plato thought so many of our thoughts that he is our contemporary and companion.
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    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11
    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 11
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I / 450th Anniversary of the Death of Leonardo da Vinci -- An Aspect of Leonardo’s Painting -- Leonardo da Vinci and the Sublimatory Process -- On the Physical Insights of Leonardo da Vinci -- Leonardo as Military Engineer -- Leonardo da Vinci and the Beginnings of Factories with a Central Source of Power -- II / Physics and the Explanation of Life -- Physics and the Explanation of Life -- New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity. Stratified Stability and Unbounded Plans -- III / The George Sarton Memorial Lecture, 1969 -- Boltzmann, Monocycles and Mechanical Explanation -- IV / Current Problems of Cosmology -- to the Symposium on Cosmology -- Cosmology as a Science -- Open or Closed? -- Cosmic Evolution -- Highly Condensed Objects -- The Case for a Hierarchical Cosmology. Recent Observations Indicate that Hierarchical Clustering Is a Basic Factor in Cosmology -- From Mendeléev’s Atom to the Collapsing Star -- V / Objectivity and Anthropology -- Objectivity in the Social Sciences -- On the Objectivity of Anthropology -- Acquired Models and the Modification of Anthropological Evidence -- The Present Status of Anthropology as an Explanatory Science -- ’Subjective’ and ’Objective’ in Social Anthropological Epistemology -- VI / Comparative History and Sociology of Science -- Scientific Concepts and Social Structure in Ancient Greece -- Algébre etlinguistique: l’analyse combinatoire dans la science arabe -- Scientific Strategies and Historical Change -- Logicality and Rationality: A Comment on Toulmin’s Theory of Science -- On Pursuing the Unattainable -- Sciences and Civilizations, ‘East’ and ‘West’. Joseph Needham and Max Weber -- VII / Unity of Science -- The Unity of Science and Theory Construction in Molecular Biology -- The Evolution of the Problem of the Unity of Science.
    Kurzfassung: At the 1969 annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad­ vancement ofScience, held in Boston on December 27-29, a sequence of symposia on the philosophical foundations of science was organized jointly by Section L of the Association and the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science. Section L is devoted to the history, philos­ ophy, logic and sociology of science, with broad connotations extended both to 'science' and to 'philosophy'. With collaboration generously extended by other and more specialized Sections of the AAAS, the Section L program took an unusually rich range of topics, and indeed the audiences were large, and the discussions lively. This book, regrettably delayed in publication, contains the major papers from those symposia of 1969. In addition, it contains the distin­ guished George Sarton Memorial Lecture of that meeting, 'Boltzmann, Monocycles and Mechanical Explanation' by Martin J. Klein. Some additions and omissions should be noted: In Part 1, dedicated to the 450th anniversary of the birth of Leonardo da Vinci, we have been una bie to include a contrihution by Elmer Belt who was prevented by storms from participating. In Part II, on physics and the explanation of life, we were unable to persuade Isaac Asimov to overcome his modesty about the historical remarks he made under the title 'Arrhenius Revisited'.
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    Serie: Treatise on Basic Philosophy 2
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Semantics ; Science—Philosophy. ; Semiotics.
    Kurzfassung: Of Semantics II -- 6. Interpretation -- 1. Kinds of Interpretation -- 2. Mathematical Interpretation -- 3. Factual Interpretation -- 4. Pragmatic Aspects -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- 7. Meaning -- 1. Babel -- 2. The Synthetic View -- 3. Meaning Invariance and Change -- 4. Factual and Empirical Meanings -- 5. Meaning et alia -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- 8. Truth -- 1. Kinds of Truth -- 2. Truth of Reason and Truth of Fact -- 3. Degrees of Truth -- 4. Truth et alia -- 5. Closing Remarks -- 9. Offshoots -- 1. Extension -- 2. Vagueness -- 3. Definite Description -- 10. Neighbors -- 1. Mathematics -- 2. Logic -- 3. Epistemology -- 4. Metaphysics -- 5. Parting Words -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    Serie: Treatise on Basic Philosophy, Semantics I: Sense and Reference 1
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    Kurzfassung: of Semantics I -- 1. Goal -- 2. Method -- 1. Designation -- 1. Symbol and Idea -- 2. Designation -- 3. Metaphysical Concomitants -- 2. Reference -- 1. Motivation -- 2. The Reference Relation -- 3. The Reference Functions -- 4. Factual Reference -- 5. Relevance -- 6. Conclusion -- 3. Representation -- 1. Conceptual Representation -- 2. The Representation Relation -- 3. Modeling -- 4. Semantic Components of a Scientific Theory -- 5. Conclusion -- 4. Intension -- 1. Form is not Everything -- 2. A Calculus of Intensions -- 3. Some Relatives — Kindred and in Law -- 4. Concluding Remarks -- 5. Gist and Content -- 1. Closed Contexts -- 2. Sense as Purport or Logical Ancestry -- 3. Sense as Import or Logical Progeny -- 4. Full Sense -- 5. Conclusion -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Kurzfassung: In this Introduction we shall sketch a profile of our field of inquiry. This is necessary because semantics is too often mistaken for lexicography and therefore dismissed as trivial, while at other times it is disparaged for being concerned with reputedly shady characters such as meaning and allegedly defunct ones like truth. Moreover our special concern, the semantics of science, is a newcomer - at least as a systematic body - and therefore in need of an introduction. l. GOAL Semantics is the field of inquiry centrally concerned with meaning and truth. It can be empirical or nonempirical. When brought to bear on concrete objects, such as a community of speakers, semantics seeks to answer problems concerning certain linguistic facts - such as disclosing the interpretation code inherent in the language or explaning the speakers' ability or inability to utter and understand new sentences ofthe language. This kind of semantics will then be both theoretical and experimental: it will be a branch of what used to be called 'behavioral science'.
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    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: Empiricism at Bay?: Revisions and a New Defense -- Empiricism at Sea -- What Duhem Really Meant -- Genius in Science -- Regularity and Law -- Teleological and Teleonomic, a New Analysis -- Forces, Powers, Aethers, and Fields -- Natural Science and the Future of Metaphysics -- Is the Transition from an Old Theory to a New One of a Sudden and Unexpected Character? -- Some Practical Issues in the Recent Controversy on the Nature of Scientific Revolutions -- The Divergent-Convergent Method — A Heuristic Approach to Problem-Solving -- The Logical and the Extra-Logical -- What is a Logical Constant? -- On the Law of Inertia -- Scientific and Metaphysical Problems: Euler and Kant -- Theory of Language and Philosophy of Science as Instruments of Educational Reform: Wittgenstein and Popper as Austrian Schoolteachers -- Bible Criticism and Social Science -- Kant, Marx and the Modern Rationality -- The Marxist Conception of Science -- The Idea of Statistical Law in Nineteenth Century Science.
    Kurzfassung: Modem philosophy of science has turned out to be a Pandora's box. Once opened, the puzzling monsters appeared: not only was the neat structure of classical physics radically changed, but a variety of broader questions were let loose, bearing on the nature of scientific inquiry and of human knowledge in general. Philosophy of science could not help becoming epistemological and historical, and could no longer avoid metaphysical questions, even when these were posed in disguise. Once the identification of scientific methodology with that of physics had been queried, not only did biology and psychology come under scrutiny as major modes of scientific inquiry, but so too did history and the social sciences - particularly economics, sociology and anthropology. And now, new 'monsters' are emerging - for example, medicine and political science as disciplined inquiries. This raises anew a much older question, namely whether the conception of science is to be distinguished from a wider conception of learning and inquiry? Or is science to be more deeply understood as the most adequate form of learning and inquiry, whose methods reach every domain of rational thought? Is modern science matured reason, or is it simply one historically adapted and limited species of western reason? In our colloquia at Boston University, over the past fourteen years, we have been probing and testing the scope of philosophy of science.
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    Serie: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 65
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    Schlagwort(e): Science Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I. Berkeley’s Theory of Signification -- Theory of Meaning -- Theory of Signs -- II. The Theory of Vision -- The Critique of Geometrical Optics -- The “Vulgar Error” -- The Concept of Sensible Minima -- III. The Philosophy of Physics -- The Concept of Material Substance -- The Concept of Force -- Absolute Space and Motion -- IV. The Philosophy of Mathematics -- The Philosophy of Arithmetic -- The Philosophy of Geometry -- The Critique of Analysis -- V. Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: Philonous: You see, Hylas, the water of yonder fountain, how it is forced upwards, in a round column, to a certain height, at which it breaks and falls back into the basin from whence it rose, its ascent as well as descent proceeding from the same uniform law or principle of gravitation. Just so, the same principles which at first view, lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common 1 sense. Although major works on Berkeley have considered his Philosophy of 1 George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, ed. Colin Murray Turbayne, (third and final edition; London 1734); (New York: The Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc., Library of Liberal Arts, 1965), p. 211. Berkeley, in general, conveniently numbered sections in his works, and in the text of the essay, we will refer if possible to the title and section number. References to the Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous will be also made in the text and refer to the dialogue number and page in the Turbayne edition cited above.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Physics—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I/From Populäre Schriften: (Writings addressed to the Public) -- Dedication (1905) -- Foreword (1905) -- 1. On the Methods of Theoretical Physics (1892) -- 3. The Second Law of Thermodynamics (1886) -- 5. On the Significance of Theories (1890) -- 9. On Energetics (1896) -- 10. On the Indispensability of Atomism in Natural Science (1897) -- 11. More on Atomism (1897) -- 12. On the Question of the Objective Existence of Processes in Inanimate Nature (1897) -- 14. On the Development of the Methods of Theoretical Physics in Recent Times (1899) -- 16. On the Fundamental Principles and Equations of Mechanics, I, II (1899) -- 17. On the Principles of Mechanics, I, II (1900, 1902) -- 18. An Inaugural Lecture on Natural Philosophy (1903) -- 19. On Statistical Mechanics (1904) -- 20. Reply to a Lecture on Happiness given by Prof. Ostwald (1904) -- 22. On a Thesis of Schopenhauer’s (1905) -- II/From Nature51 (1895) -- On Certain Questions of the Theory of Gases -- III/From Encyclopaedia Britannica10,11 -- Model (1902) -- IV/From Vorlesungen Über Die Principe Der Mechanik (Lectures on the Principles of Mechanics) -- One (1897) -- Two (1904) -- Index Of Names.
    Kurzfassung: l. The work of Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) consists of two kinds of writings: in the first part of his active life he devoted himself entirely to problems of physics, while in the second part he tried to find a philosoph­ 1 ical background for his activities in and around the natural sciences. Most scientists are much more aware of his creative work in physics than of his digressions on the meaning and structure of science. I think in the present case the reason is not so much that most scientists are usually almost entirely occupied with their trade, because Boltzmann's philosophical work is also concerned with the (natural) sciences. I rather believe that the quality and consistency of Boltzmann's purely scientific work is of a more appealing nature than his less structured considerations on human activity in science and in life in general. 2. I think that it may be appropriate for the readers of this anthology to say a few words on the main findings of Boltzmann in physics, since in the end their 'philosophical' inlpact has been larger than the effect of his later writings. Moreover some knowledge of his scientific achievements can be helpful for the understanding and appreciation of the essays printed in this book, which almost all stem from Boltzmann's philosophical period. Boltzmann was one of the main protagonists - at least in continental Europe - of atomistics for explaining the phenomena of physics.
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    Serie: The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books on Philosophy of Science, Methodology, and Epistemology Published in Connection with the University of Western Ontario Philosophy of Science Programme 3
    Serie: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 3
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    Kurzfassung: I. The Statistical Algorithm of Quantum Mechanics -- I. Remarks -- II. Early Formulations -- III. Hilbert Space -- IV. The Statistical Algorithm -- V. Generalization of the Statistical Algorithm -- VI. Compatibility -- II. The Problem of Completeness -- I. The Classical Theory of Probability and Quantum Mechanics -- II. Uncertainty and Complementarity -- III. Hidden Variables -- III. Von Neumann’s Completeness Proof -- IV. Lattice Theory: The Jauch and Piron Proof -- V. The Imbedding Theorem of Kochen and Specker -- VI. The Bell-Wigner Locality Argument -- VII. Resolution of the Completeness Problem -- VIII. The Logic of Events -- I. Remarks -- II. Classical Logic -- III. Mechanics -- IX. Imbeddability and Validity -- X. The Statistics of Non-Boolean Event Structures -- XI. The Measurement Problem -- XII. The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Index of Subjects.
    Kurzfassung: This book is a contribution to a problem in foundational studies, the problem of the interpretation of quantum mechanics, in the sense of the theoretical significance of the transition from classical to quantum mechanics. The obvious difference between classical and quantum mechanics is that quantum mechanics is statistical and classical mechanics isn't. Moreover, the statistical character of the quantum theory appears to be irreducible: unlike classical statistical mechanics, the probabilities are not generated by measures on a probability space, i. e. by distributions over atomic events or classical states. But how can a theory of mechanics be statistical and complete? Answers to this question which originate with the Copenhagen inter­ pretation of Bohr and Heisenberg appeal to the limited possibilities of measurement at the microlevel. To put it crudely: Those little electrons, protons, mesons, etc. , are so tiny, and our fingers so clumsy, that when­ ever we poke an elementary particle to see which way it will jump, we disturb the system radically - so radically, in fact, that a considerable amount of information derived from previous measurements is no longer applicable to the system. We might replace our fingers by finer probes, but the finest possible probes are the elementary particles them­ selves, and it is argued that the difficulty really arises for these.
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    Kurzfassung: 1 / Philosophy: Beacon or Trap -- 2 / Foundations: Clarity and Order -- 3 / Physical Theory: Overview -- 4 / The Referents of a Physical Theory -- 5 / Quantum Mechanics in Search of its Referent -- 6 / Analogy and Complementarity -- 7 / The Axiomatic Format -- 8 / Examples and Advantages of Axiomatics -- 9 / The Network of Theories -- 10 / The Theory/Experiment Interface -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Kurzfassung: This book deals with some of the current issues in the philosophy, methodology and foundations of physics. Some such problems are: - Do mathematical formalisms interpret themselves or is it necessary to adjoin them interpretation assumptions, and if so how are these as­ sumptions to be framed? - What are physical theories about: physical systems or laboratory operations or both or neither? - How are the basic concepts of a theory to be introduced: by ref­ erence to measurements or by explicit definition or axiomatically? - What is the use ofaxiomatics in physics? - How are the various physical theories inter-related: like Chinese boxes or in more complex ways? - What is the role of analogy in the construction and in the inter­ pretation of physical theories? In particular, are classical analogues like those of particle and wave indispensable in quantum theories? - What is the role of the apparatus in quantum phenomena and what is the place of measurement theory in quantum mechanics? - How does a theory face experiment: single-handed or with the help of further theories? These and several other questions of the kind are met with by the research physicist, the physics teacher and the physics student in their everyday work. If dodged they will recur. And a wrong answer to them may obscure the understanding of what has been achieved and may even hamper further advancement. Philosophy, methodology and foundations, like rose bushes, are enjoyable when cultivated but become ugly and thorny when neglected.
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    Kurzfassung: 1. Theoretical concepts and inductive Inference -- 1. Problems of Inductive Systematization: the Transitivity Dilemma -- 2. Inductive Systematization Established by Theories -- 3. A Logical Framework for the Dynamics of Conceptual Change and Induction -- 2. Hintikka’s Two-Dimensional Continuum of Inductive Logic -- 1. Summary of Hintikka’s Two-dimensional Continuum -- 2. The Treatment of Incomplete Evidence -- 3. Inductive Probabilities of Weak Generalizations -- 1. Probabilities in the Observational Language -- 2. Evidential Theoretical Concepts -- 3. Non-Evidential Theoretical Concepts -- 4. Inductive Probabilities of Strong Generalizations -- 5. Piecewise Definable Theoretical Concepts -- 6. Epistemic Utilities and Inductive Systematization -- 1. Measures of Information and Systematic Power -- 2. Expected Epistemic Utilities of Generalizations -- 3. Competing Generalizations -- 7. Theoretical Concepts and Inductive Explanation -- 1. Explanatory Power of Theories -- 2. Inductive Explanation Illustrated -- 3. Positive Inductive Relevance, Supersessance, and Screening Off -- 4. Inductive Explanation within Hintikka’s System -- 8. Corroboration and Theoretical Concepts -- 1. Theoretical and Observational Support -- 2. Measures of Corroboration Based on Positive Inductive Relevance -- 3. Hintikka’s Measure of Corroboration -- 9. The Logical Indispensability of Theoretical Concepts within Inductive Systematization -- 1. The Theoretician’s Dilemma: Methodological Instrumentalism Refuted -- 2. Logical Indispensability and Positive Inductive Relevance -- 3. Logical Indispensability and Rules of Acceptance -- 10. Linguistic Variance in Inductive Logic -- 1. Linguistic Invariance and Linguistic Variance -- 2. Probability Kinematics -- 3. Goodman’s New Riddle of Induction -- 11. Towards a Non-Inductivist Logic of Induction -- 1. Deductivism and Inductivism -- 2. Hypothetico-Deductive and Hypothetico-Inductive Inference -- 3. The Atheoretical Thesis -- 4. Converse Deduction and Indirect Support -- 5. Conjectures.
    Kurzfassung: Conceptual change and its connection to the development of new seien­ tific theories has reeently beeome an intensively discussed topic in philo­ sophieal literature. Even if the inductive aspects related to conceptual change have already been discussed to some extent, there has so far existed no systematic treatment of inductive change due to conceptual enrichment. This is what we attempt to accomplish in this work, al­ though most of our technical results are restricted to the framework of monadic languages. We extend Hintikka's system of inductive logic to apply to situations in which new concepts are introduced to the original language. By interpreting them as theoretica1 concepts, it is possible to discuss a number of currently debated philosophical and methodological problems which have previously escaped systematic and exact treatment. For instance, the role which seientific theories employing theoretical con­ cepts may play within inductive inference can be studied within this framework. From the viewpoint of seientific realism, sueh a study gives outlines for a theory of what we call hypothetico-induetive inference. Some parts of this work which are based on Hintikka's system of in­ ductive logic are fairly technical. However, no previous knowledge of this system is required, but, in general, acquaintance with the basic ideas of elementary logic and probability theory is suffieient. This work is part of a project, originated by Professors Jaakko Hintikka and Raimo Tuomela, concerning the role of theoretical concepts in science.
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    Kurzfassung: Book One - Part I -- Cosmological Explanation, B.C. -- The Conceptual Content of Book One, Part I -- The Historical Content of Book One, Part I -- Plato -- Eudoxos and ‘Plato’s Problem’ -- Aristotle -- Book One - Part II -- Ptolemy and Prediction -- Pre-Ptolemaic Anticipations -- Three Dimensional Variations of Ptolemy’s Technique -- Book Two - Part I -- The Medieval Rediscovery of Ptolemy’s Tool Box -- ‘The Ptolemaic System’ -- Supplementary Material for Book Two, Section A -- Book Two - Part II -- Copernicus’ Systematic Astronomy -- Further Aspects of Copernican Astronomy in Contrast to All that had Gone Before -- Supplement to Section on Copernican Theory -- Book Three - Part I -- Kepler and the ‘Clean’ Idea -- Supplementary Material for Book Three, Part I.
    Kurzfassung: An occurrence is explained by being related to prior events through known laws. Other intellectual activities may also constitute explanation - but this much certainly does. Ideally, an explained occurrence (0) could have been predicted in a connected way - by extrapolation from prior events (e) via the same laws (L). Schematically, 1 Explanation: 0 -Lt, 2, 3-(e e e )'-AI t 2 3 01 Prediction: (e e e )I-L , 2, 3_ +.11 t 2 3 t Thus Mars' backward loop in late summer, 1956, is explained by showing how this follows from (e ) its mean distance from sun and earth, (e ) its t 2 mean period of revolution, (e ) its past positions relative to earth, etc. 3 - by way of the laws of Celestial Mechanics (including (Lt) Kepler's Laws and Galileo's, (L2) Newton's, and (L3) those of Laplace and Lagrange. Moreover, this loop (0) could have been predicted from such events (e -e ) via the laws of Celestial Mechanics. t 3 This is an ideal situation. It crystallized late in the history of planetary theory. The Greeks found explanations for heavenly motions: the back­ ward loops were explained to their satisfaction. But they could not predict these motions, not in terms of Attic explanatory cosmologies.
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    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: On Method in the Philosophy of Science -- I: Scientific Method -- 2. Testability Today -- 3. Is Biology Methodologically Unique? -- 4. The Axiomatic Method in Physics -- II: Conceptual Models -- 5. Concepts of Model -- 6. Analogy, Simulation, Representation -- 7. Mathematical Modeling in Social Science -- III: Metaphysics -- 8. Is Scientific Metaphysics Possible? -- 9. The Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Methodology of Levels -- 10. How do Realism, Materialism and Dialectics Fare in Contemporary Science? -- Name Index.
    Kurzfassung: This collection of essays deals with three clusters of problems in the philo­ sophy of science: scientific method, conceptual models, and ontological underpinnings. The disjointedness of topics is more apparent than real, since the whole book is concerned with the scientific knowledge of fact. Now, the aim of factual knowledge is the conceptual grasping of being, and this understanding is provided by theories of whatever there may be. If the theories are testable and specific, such as a theory of a particular chemical reaction, then they are often called 'theoretical models' and clas­ sed as scientific. If the theories are extremely general, like a theory of syn­ thesis and dissociation without any reference to a particular kind of stuff, then they may be called 'metaphysical' - as well as 'scientific' if they are consonant with science. Between these two extremes there is a whole gamut of kinds of factual theories. Thus the entire spectrum should be dominated by the scientific method, quite irrespective of the subject matter. This is the leitmotiv of the present book. The introductory chapter, on method in the philosophy of science, tackles the question 'Why don't scientists listen to their philosophers?'.
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    Kurzfassung: I: Logic -- Matters of Relevance -- Notions of Relevance. Comments on Leblanc’s Paper -- II: Semantics -- Translation and Reduction -- A Program for the Semantics of Science -- III: Erotetics -- S-P Interrogatives -- IV: Philosophy of Mathematics -- Foundations as a Branch of Mathematics -- Naturalism in Mathematics. Comments on Hatcher’s Paper -- V: Philosophy of Science -- Deductive Explanation of Scientific Laws -- VI: Metaphysics -- Concepts of Randomness -- VII: Ethics -- The Logic of Conditional Obligation -- On Evaluating Deontic Logics. Comments on van Fraassen’s Paper -- VIII: Legal Philosophy -- The Intuitive Background of Normative Legal Discourse and Its Formalization -- IX: History of Philosophy -- Plato’s Phaedo Theory of Relations.
    Kurzfassung: The papers that follow were read and discussed at the first Symposium on Exact Philosophy. This conference was held at Montreal on November 4th and 5th, 1971, to celebrate the sesquicentennial of McGill University and establish the Society for Exact Philosophy. The expression 'exact philosophy' is taken to signify mathematical phi­ losophy, i.e., philosophy done with the explicit help of mathematical logic and mathematics. So far the expression denotes an attitude rather than a fully blown discipline: it intends to convey the intention to try and pro­ ceed in as exact a manner as we can in formulating and discussing phi­ losophical problems and theories. The kind of philosophy we wish to practice and promote is disciplined rather than wild, systematic rather than disconnected, and capable of being argued over rather than oracular. We believe that even metaphysics, notoriously riotous, can be subjected to the control of logic and mathematics. Even the history of philosophy, notoriously unsystematic, can benefit from an exact reconstruction of some classical ideas.
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    Serie: Archives Internationales D’histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, Series Minor 11
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    Kurzfassung: I. Introduction: A New University and the Challenge of the New Science -- II. Franco Burgersdijck: Late Scholasticism at Leiden -- III. Tumult over Cartesianism -- IV. Joannes de Raey: The Introduction of Cartesian Physics at Leiden -- V. Passing Crises, enduring Disagreement -- VI. The Practice of Philosophy -- VII. ’s Gravesande and Musschenbroek: Newtonianism at Leiden -- VIII. Conclusion: Science, Philosophy and Pedagogy -- Selected Bibliography.
    Kurzfassung: 2 result of the attitudes characteristic of the small group of permanent residents at the schools, the academic scholars. This conservatism, however, was not everywhere equally efficacious. In the sixteenth century, the universities of northern Italy, Padua above all, had nurtured an intellectual ferment of considerable significance to the rise of the new science, and they continued to be penetrated by the influence of that science throughout the seventeenth century. The Uni­ versity of Oxford momentarily played host to' leading members of the English scientific community during the Commonwealth period, and Cambridge was shortly to boast the genius of Isaac Newton. Indeed, a small number of the one-hundred-odd universities in Europe strove more or less purposefully to come to grips with the new science and to in­ at least, within the body of learning for which they corporate facets of it, 2 held themselves responsible. Among the most notable of these more progressive schools must be included the University of Leiden, recently founded by the Lowlanders in revolt against the King of Spain, Philip II. The doors of the University of Leiden had first opened, to be sure, in the midst of rebellion, and had been forced open, as it were, by rumors of peace. In 1572, the revolt, with the Calvinists now clearly in the van, acquired what was to prove an enduring foothold in the maritime prov­ inces of Holland and Zeeland.
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    Serie: Synthese Historical Library, Text and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 5
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    Kurzfassung: Editor’s Introduction -- I. Logic as a Theory of Science -- II. Propositions and Sentences -- III. Ideas in Themselves -- IV. The Reduction of Sentences -- V. Judgment and Knowledge -- VI. Intuition and Concept -- VII. The Notion of Variation -- VIII. Analytic and Synthetic Propositions -- IX. Consistency and Derivability -- X. Degree of Validity and Probability -- XI. The Objective Hierarchy of Propositions -- XII. Set and Continuum -- XIII. Infinite Sets -- XIV. Natural Numbers -- XV. Conclusion -- A A Selection from the Wissenschaftslehre (Sulzbach 1837, Leipzig 1914—31) [‘+A’ (‘-A’) means including (excluding) the Anmerkung(en)]: Volume One -- One / Theory of Fundamental Truths -- One / On the Existence of Truths in Themselves -- Two / On the Possibility of Knowing the Truth -- Two / Theory of Elements § 46. Purpose, Content and Sections of this Part -- One / On Ideas in Themselves -- Volume Two -- Two / On Propositions in Themselves -- Three / On True Propositions -- Four / On Inferences -- Volume Three -- Three / Theory of Knowledge -- One / On Ideas -- Two / On Judgments -- Three / The Relationship of our Judgments to the Truth -- Volume Four -- Five / Theory of Science Proper -- One / General Theory -- Four / On the Propositions which should Occur in a Scholarly Treatise -- B Excerpts from Bolzano’s Correspondence -- Letter to J. E. Seidel, 26 January 1833 (Manuscript in Krajské muzeum v Ceských Bud?jovicích; transcription by Jan Berg) -- Letter to M. J. Fesl, 8 February 1834 (Manuscript in Literární ar chív Památníku národního písemnictví v Praze; published in Wissenschaft und Religion im Vormärz. Der Briefwechsel Bernard Bolzanos mit Michael Josef Fesl (ed. by E. Winter and W. Zeil), Berlin 1965, p. 58,1. 4 – 1. 3 f.b.) -- Letter to F. Exner, 22 November 1834 (Manuscript in Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien; published in Der Briefwechsel B. Bolzano’s mit F. Exner (ed. by E. Winter), Bernard Bolzano’s Schriften, vol. 4, Prague 1935, p. 62,1. 32 - p. 67, 1. 38) -- Letter to J. P. Romang, 1 May 1847 (Manuscript in the same archive as Letter to M. J. Fesl (above); published in Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görresgesellschaft, vol. 51, Fulda 1938, p. 50,1. 5f.b. - p. 53, 1. 16) -- Letter to R. Zimmermann, 9 March 1848 (Manuscript in the same archive as Letter to M. J. Fesl (above); transcription by Jan Berg) -- Letter to F. P?íhonský, 10 March 1848 (Manuscript in the same archive as Letter to M. J. Fesl (above); published in E. Winter: Der Böhmische Vormärz in Brief en B. Bolzanos an F. P?ihonskí, Berlin 1956, p. 285,1. 1 – 1. 16) -- A. Works by Bolzano -- 1. Works on Logic, Epistemology and Methodology of Science -- 2. Works on Mathematics -- B. Works on Bolzano -- 1. General Works -- 2. Biographies -- 3. Logic -- 4. Mathematics -- 5. Metaphysics -- 6. Theology -- 7. Social Philosophy -- 8. Aesthetics -- Name Index.
    Kurzfassung: The present selection from the Wissenschaftslehre (Sulzbach 1837) of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) aims at giving a compact view of his main ideas in logic, semantics, epistemology and the methodology of science. These ideas are analyzed from a modern point of view in the Introduction. Furthermore, excerpts from Bolzano's correspondence are included which yield important remarks on his own work. The translation of the sections from the Wissenschaftslehre are based on a German text, which I have located in the Manuscript Department of the University Library in Prague (signature: 75 B 459). It was one of Bolzano's own copies of his printed work and contains a vast number of corrections made by Bolzano himself, thus representing the final stage of his thought, which has gone unnoticed in previous editions. The German originals of Bolzano's letters to M. J. Fesl, J. P. Romang, R. Zimmermann and F. Pi'ihonsky are in the Literary Archive of the Pamatnfk narodnfho pfsemnictvf in Prague. The original of the letter to F. Exner belongs to the Manuscript Department of the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna. The original of the letter to J. E. Seidel is preserved in the Museum of the City of Ceske Budejovice.
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    Kurzfassung: Perception and Philosophy Science -- (1) Nature of a Perceptual Theory -- (2) The Psychophysical Law -- (3) Perception of Light and Color -- (4) Perception of Voice and Music -- (5) Theory of Space and Time -- (6) Statistical Theory of Fields -- (7) The Problem of the Unity of Physics -- (8) Nature of a Physical Theory -- (9) A Theory of Psycho-social Evolution -- The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Defense of a Non-Conventionalist Interpretation of Classical Mechanics -- Comments on C. A. Hooker: Systematic Realism -- The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities -- Comments on ‘The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities’ -- Comments on ‘The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities’ -- The Labyrinth of Quantum Logics -- Ontic Commitments of Quantum Mechanics -- Comments on ‘Ontic Commitments of Quantum Mechanics’ -- Quantum Logic and Classical Logic: Their Respective Roles -- Implications of a New Axiom Set for Quantum Logic -- Two Types of Continuity -- General Relativity — Some Puzzling Questions -- Personal Remembrance of Albert Einstein -- The Controversy Concerning the Law of Causality in Contemporary Physics -- Topical Table of Contents -- (1) Causality -- (2) Relevance of Probability -- (3) Teleology in Physics? -- (4) Probability and Free Will.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Logic ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: One/the Logical Theory of Scientific Knowledge -- Two/Signs -- Three/Terms -- Four/Sentences -- Five/Sentential Logic -- Six/the General Theory of Logical Entailment -- Seven/Formalization of the General Theory of Logical Entailment -- Eight/Subject-Predicate Structures -- Nine/Empirical And Abstract Objects -- Ten/Sentences with Quantifiers -- Eleven/Theory of Quantifiers -- Twelve/Conditional Sentences -- Thirteen/Theory of Terms -- Fourteen/Classes -- Fifteen/ Existential Logic -- Sixteen/ Modal Sentences -- Seventeen/ Relations -- Eighteen/ Physical Entailment -- Nineteen/ Theories -- Twenty/ Logic and Ontology -- Twenty-One/ the Universality of Logic -- Conclusion -- Append -- Proof of the Basic Theorems of the Theory of Logical -- Entailment -- G. A. Smirno -- Independence in the Systems of Logical Entailment -- E. A. Sidorenko -- Some Variants of the Systems of Logical Entailment -- E. A. Sidorenko -- Completeness of the Systems of Logical Entailment -- A. M. Fedina -- Completeness of Systems of Degenerate Entailment and Quasi-Entailment -- L. A. Bobrova -- Index of Names.
    Kurzfassung: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science are devoted to symposia, con­ gresses, colloquia, monographs and collected papers on the philosophical foundations of the sciences. It is now our pleasure to include A. A. Zi­ nov'ev's treatise on complex logic among these volumes. Zinov'ev is one of the most creative of modern Soviet logicians, and at the same time an innovative worker on the methodological foundations of science. More­ over, Zinov'ev, although still a developing scholar, has exerted a sub­ stantial and stimulating influence upon his colleagues and students in Moscow and within other philosophical and logical circles of the Soviet Union. Hence it may be helpful, in bringing this present work to an English-reading audience, to review briefly some contemporary Soviet investigations into scientific methodology. During the 1950's, a vigorous new research program in logic was under­ taken, and the initial published work -characteristic of most Soviet pub­ lications in the logic and methodology of the sciences - was a collection of essays, Logical Investigations (Moscow, 1959). Among the authors, in addition to Zinov'ev himself, were the philosophers A. Kol'man and P. V. Tavanec, and the mathematicians and linguists, S. A. Janovskaja, A. S. Esenin-Vol'pin, S. K. Saumjan, G. N. Povarov.
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    Kurzfassung: I / Causality and Time -- Causal Models and Space-Time Geometries -- Temporally Symmetric Causal Relations in Minkowski Space-Time -- Notes on the Causal Theory of Time -- Earman on the Causal Theory of Time -- Kant’s Formulation of the Laws of Motion -- On Travelling Backward in Time -- The Flow of Time -- II / Geometry of Space and Time -- Poincaré’s Philosophy of Space -- On the Structure of Space-Time -- Topology, Cosmology and Convention -- Grünbaum on the Conventionality of Geometry -- Reflections on a Relational Theory of Space -- The Ontology of the Curvature of Empty Space in the Geometrodynamics of Clifford and Wheeler -- Relativity Principles, Absolute Objects and Symmetry Groups -- Nondirected Light Signals and the Structure of Time -- Coordinate-Free Relativity -- Some Open Problems in the Philosophy of Space and Time -- The Naive Conception of the Topology of the Surface of a Body.
    Kurzfassung: The articles in this volume have been stimulated in two different ways. More than two years ago the editor of Synthese, laakko Hintikka, an­ nounced a special issue devoted to space and time, and articles were solicited. Part of the reason for that announcement was also the second source of papers. Several years ago I gave a seminar on special relativity at Stanford, and the papers by Domotor, Harrison, Hudgin, Latzer and myself partially arose out of discussion in that seminar. All of the papers except those of Griinbaum, Fine, the second paper of Friedman, and the paper of Adams appeared in a special double issue of Synthese (24 (1972), Nos. 1-2). I am pleased to have been able to add the four additional papers mentioned in making the special issue a volume in the Synthese Library. Of these four additional articles, only the one by Fine has pre­ viously appeared in print (Synthese 22 (1971),448--481); its relevance to the present volume is apparent. In preparing the papers for publication and in carrying out the various editorIal chores of such a task, I am very much indebted to Mrs. Lillian O'Toole for her extensive assistance. INTRODUCTION The philosophy of space and time has been of permanent importance in philosophy, and most of the major historical figures in philosophy, such as Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, have had a good deal to say about the nature of space and time.
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    Serie: The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books on Philosophy of Science, Methodology, and Epistemology Published in Connection With the University of Western Ontario Philosophy of Science Programme 2
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    Kurzfassung: On the Completeness of Quantum Mechanics -- Joint Probability Distributions in Quantum Mechanics -- Semantic Analysis of Quantum Logic -- Is The Principle of Superposition Really Necessary? -- Quantum Logics -- Metaphysics and Modern Physics: A Prolegomenon to the Understanding of Quantum Theory -- The General Relativistic Quantization Program -- Quantum Physics and General Relativity; the Search for a Deeper Theory -- On the Nature of Light and the Problem of Matter -- Epistemological Perspective on Quantum Theory.
    Kurzfassung: To mathematicians, mathematics is a happy game, to scientists a mere tool and to philosophers a Platonic mystery - or so the caricature runs. The caricature reflects the alleged 'cultural gap' between the disciplines­ a gap for which there too often has been, sadly, sound historical evidence. In many minds the lack of communication between philosophy and the exact disciplines is especially prominent. Yet in the past there was no separation - exact knowledge, covering both scientists and mathemati­ cians, was known as natural philosophy and the business of providing a critical view of the nature of reality and an accurate mathematical de­ scription of it constituted a single task from the glorious tradition begun by the early Greek philosophers even up until Newton's day (but I am thinking of Descartes and Leibniz I). The lack of communication between these professional groups has been particularly unfortunate, for the past half century has seen the most ex­ citing developments in mathematical physics since Newton. These devel­ opments hinged on the introduction of vast new reaches of mathematics into physics (non-Euclidean geometries, covariant formulations, non­ commutative algebras, functional analysis and so on) and conversely have challenged mathematicians to develop the appropriate mathematical fields. Equally, these developments have posed profound philosophical problems to do with the rejection of traditional conceptions concerning the nature of physical reality and physical theorising.
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    Kurzfassung: I. Philosophical Problems of the Metric of Space and Time -- 1. Spatial and Temporal Congruence in Physics: A Critical Comparison of the Conceptions of Newton, Riemann, Poincaré, Eddington, Bridgman, Russell, and Whitehead -- 2. The Significance of Alternative Time Metrizations in Newtonian Mechanics and in the General Theory of Relativity -- 3. Critique of Reichenbach’s and Carnap’s Philosophy of Geometry -- 4. Critique of Einstein’s Philosophy of Geometry -- 5. Empiricism and the Geometry of Visual Space -- 6. The Resolution of Zeno’s Metrical Paradox of Extension for the Mathematical Continua of Space and Time -- II. Philosophical Problems of the Topology of Time and Space -- 7. The Causal Theory of Time -- 8. The Anisotropy of Time -- 9. The Asymmetry of Retrodictability and Predictability, the Compossibility of Explanation of the Past and Prediction of the Future, and Mechanism vs. Teleology -- 10. Is There a “Flow” of Time or Temporal “Becoming”? -- 11. Empiricism and the Three-Dimensionality of Space -- III. Philosophical Issues in the Theory of Relativity -- 12. Philosophical Foundations of the Special Theory of Relativity, and Their Bearing on Its History -- 13. Philosophical Appraisal of E. A. Milne’s Alternative to Einstein’s STR -- 14. Has the General Theory of Relativity Repudiated Absolute Space? -- 15. Philosophical Critique of Whitehead’s Theory of Relativity -- Bibliography for the First Edition -- IV. Supplementary Studies 1964–1973 -- 1. Supplement to Part I -- 16. Space, Time and Falsifiability (First Installment) -- 17. Can We Ascertain the Falsity of a Scientific Hypothesis? -- 18. Can an Infinitude of Operations Be Performed in a Finite Time? -- 2. Supplement to Part II -- 19. Is the Coarse-Grained Entropy of Classical Statistical Mechanics an Anthropomorphism? -- 3. Supplement to Part III -- 20. Simultaneity by Slow Clock Transport in the Special Theory of Relativity -- 21. The Bearing of Philosophy on the History of the Special Theory of Relativity -- Chppter 22. General Relativity, Geometrodynamics and Ontology -- Index of Personal Names — Compiled by Mr. Theodore C. Falk -- Index of Subjects — Compiled by Mr. Theodore C. Falk.
    Kurzfassung: It is ten years since Adolf Griinbaum published the first edition of this book. It was promptly recognized to be one of the few major works in the philosophy of the natural sciences of this generation. In part, this is so because Griinbaum has chosen a problem basic both to philosophy and to the natural sciences - the nature of space and time; and in part, this is so because he so admirably exemplifies that Aristotelian devotion to the intimate and mutual dependence of actual science and philosophical understanding. More than this, however, the quality of his work derives from his achievement in combining detail with scope. The problems of space and time have been among the most difficult in contemporary and classical thought, and Griinbaum has been responsible to the full depth and complexity of these difficulties. This revised and enlarged second edition is a work in progress, in the tradition of reflective analysis of modern science of such figures as Ehrenfest and Reichenbach. In publishing this work among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, we hope to contribute to and encourage that broad tradition of natural philosophy which is marked by the close collaboration of philoso­ phers and scientists. To this end, we have published the proceedings of our Colloquia, of meetings and conferences here and abroad, as well as the works of single authors.
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    Schlagwort(e): Mathematics ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Mathematical logic. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I: Logic (Section IV) -- An Intensional Interpretation of Truth-Values -- Intensional Descriptions and Relative Completeness in the General Interpreted Modal Calculus MCV -- Singular Terms and Statements of Identity -- Adequate Models for the Non-Fregean Sentential Calculus (SCI) -- Doubts about Some Standard Arguments for Church’s Thesis -- II: Probability (Section VI) -- On the Causal Structure of Random Processes -- The Paradox of Anomaly -- Some Problems in the Constructive Probability Theory -- Evidence and Conceptual Change -- Empirically Trivial Theories and Inductive Systematization -- Are Some Propensities Probabilities? -- Questions and Their Pragmatic Value -- Prediction, Complexity, and Randomness -- Rules for Reasonable Belief Change -- III: Language (Section XI) -- Models for Text Grammars -- Tolerance Spaces and Linguistics -- Modal Tic-Tac-Toe -- On Binary Relations in Linguistic and Other Semiotic and Social Systems -- Worlds, Games and Pragmemes: A Unified Theory of Speech Acts -- On Occasional Expressions -- Combinators and Deep Structure -- Linguistic Theory and ‘Meaning?Text’ Type Models -- Properties of the Derivations According to a Context- Free Grammar -- The Treatment of Reference in Linguistic Description -- Fregean Categorial Grammar -- A Model-Theoretic Approach to Some Problems in the Semantics of Empirical Languages -- Methodological Relevance of Language Models with Expanding Sets of Sentences -- A New Type of Syntactic Projectivity: SD Projectivity -- On the Representation of Generative Grammars as First-Order Theories -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Kurzfassung: The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos­ ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter­ national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, by the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, the Academy of Social and Political Sciences of the Socialist Republic of Romania, and the Ministry of Education of Romania. With more than eight hundred participating scholars from thirty-four countries, the Congress was one of the major scientific events of the year 1971. The dedicated efforts of the organizers, the rich and carefully planned program, and the warm and friendly atmosphere contributed to making the Congress a successful and fruitful forum of exchange of scientific ideas. The work of the Congress consisted of invited one hour and half-hour addresses, symposia, and contributed papers. The proceedings were organized into twelve sections of Mathematical Logic, Foundations of Mathematical Theories, Automata and Programming Languages, Philos­ ophy of Logic and Mathematics, General Problems of Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Probability and Induction, Methodology and Philosophy of Physical Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Biological Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Psychological Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Historical and Social Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Linguistics, and History of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: Linguistic Relativity -- Something About Conceptual Schemes -- Prima Facie Generalizations -- Change of Belief or Change of Meaning? -- Conceptual Change -- Evidence, Meaning and Conceptual Change: A Subjective Approach -- Logic and Conceptual Change -- Some Comments on Professor Körner’s Paper -- Conceptual Structures -- Theory Change in Science -- Explanation and Reference -- Referential Indeterminacy: A Response to Professor Putnam -- On Semantically Relevant Whatsits: A Semantics for Philosophy of Science -- General Bibliography.
    Kurzfassung: During Hallowe'en of 1970, the Department of Philosophy of the Univer­ sity of Western Ontario held its annual fall colloquium at London, On­ tario. The general topic of the sessions that year was conceptual change. The thirteen papers composing this volume stem more or less directly from those meetings; six of them are printed here virtually as delivered, while the remaining seven were subsequently written by invitation. The programme of the colloquium was to have consisted of major papers delivered by Professors Wilfrid Sellars, Stephan Korner, Paul Ziff and Hilary Putnam, with shorter commentary thereupon by Professors Robert Binkley, Joseph Ullian, Jerry Fodor and Robert Barrett, respec­ tively. And that is the way it happened, with one important exception: at the eleventh hour, Sellars and Binkley exchanged roles. This gave Binkley the rather unusual and challenging task of providing a suitable Sellarsian answer to a question not of his own asking - for Binkley's paper was written under Sellars' original title. Sellars' own contribution to the vo­ lume is perhaps more nearly what he would have presented as main speaker than a direct response to Binkley. However, it has seemed best, on balance, to attempt no further stylistic accommodation of the one paper to the other; their mutual philosophical relevance will be evident in any case. The editors would here like to extend special thanks to both Sellars and Binkley for their extraordinary efforts under the circumstances.
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    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 10
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I. The Concept of ‘Science’ as Cognitive Activity -- 1. Aspects of the Concept of Science -- 2. The Goals of Science as Cognitive Activity sui generis -- 3. Scientific Cognition as the Solution of Problems -- II. On the Approach to Models of Scientific Procedures -- 1. Scientific Procedures as Operations with Data -- 2. The Metatheoretical Character of the Analysis of Scientific Procedures -- 3. The Finitistic Approach -- III. The Empirical Basis and the Analysis of ‘Universe of Discourse’ -- 1. Schemata of the Analysis -- 2. The Communication Model and the Problem of Scientific Empiricism -- 3. The Universe and the Language Used -- IV. Concepts of The Language of Science -- 1. Names, Descriptions and Statements -- 2. Predicates -- 3. The Classification of Predicates in the Language of Science: Qualitative, Comparative and Quantitative Predicates -- 4. The Classification of Predicates: Empirical, Dispositional and Theoretical Predicates -- 5. Similarity and Identification of Objects -- V. Scientific Explanation -- 1. Problem-Solving Situations and Questions in Science -- 2. The Concepts of ‘Explanation’ and ‘Scientific Explanation’ -- 3. The Typology of Scientific Explanation -- 4. Scientific Laws and Their Evaluation -- 5. Scientific Explanation and Decision-Making -- 6. Explanation and Prediction.
    Kurzfassung: For a decade, we have admired the incisive and broadly informed works of Ladislav Tondl on the foundations of science. Now it is indeed a pleasure to include this book among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. We hope that it will help to deepen the collaborative scholar­ ship of scientists and philosophers in Czechoslovakia with the English­ reading scholars of the world. Professor Ladislav Tondl was born in 1924, and completed his higher education at the Charles University iIi Prague. His doctorate was granted by the Institute of Information Theory and Automation. He was a professor and scientific research worker at the Institute for the Theory and Methodology of Science, which was a component part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Tondl's principal fields of interest are the methodology of the empirical and experimental sciences, logical semantics, and cybernetics. For many years, he collaborated with Professor Albert Perez and others at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation in Prague, and he has undertaken fruitful collaboration with logicians in the Soviet and Polish schools, and been influenced by the Finnish logicians as well, among them Jaakko Hintikka. We list below a selection of his main publications. Perhaps the most accessible in presenting his central conception of the relationship between modem information theory and the methodology of the sciences is his 1965 paper with Perez, 'On the Role of Information Theory in Certain Scientific Procedures'.
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    Serie: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 2
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    Kurzfassung: Inaugural Lecture -- Phenomenology Reflects upon Itself. II: The Ideal of the Universal Science: the Original Project of Husserl Reinterpreted with Reference to the Acquisitions of Phenomenology and the Progress of Contemporary Science. -- Address (Professor Klibansky on April 10, 1969) -- I/The Later Husserl -- What is New in Husserl’s ‘Crisis’ -- Ingarden’s Criticism of Husserl -- On Understanding Idea and Essence in Husserl and Ingarden -- Discussion -- Phenomenologico-Psychological and Transcendental Reductions in Husserl’s ‘Crisis’ -- Constitutive Phenomenology and Intentional Objects -- Hyletic Data -- Discussion -- The Material Apriori and the Foundation for its Analysis in Husserl -- The Actual State of the Work on Husserl’s Inedita: Achievements and Projects -- Discussion -- II/Phenomenology and Hermeneutics -- The Science of the Life-World -- The Sciences of Man and the Theory of Husserl’s Two Attitudes -- Repetition in Gadamer’s hermeneutics -- Ingarden on Language and Ontology (A Comparison with some Trends in Analytic Philosophy) -- Discussion -- III /Phenomenology and Natural Science -- Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology as Foundation of Natural Science -- Towards a Developmental Phenomenology: Transcendental-Ego and Body-Ego -- Body, Consciousness, and Violence -- The Concept of Horizon -- Intentionality and Transcendence: On the Constitution of Material Nature -- Discussion -- Complementary Essays -- A Note on the Doctrine of Noetic-Noematic Correlation -- The Meaning of Husserl’s Idealism in the Light of His Development -- Life-World Constitution of Propositional Logic and Elementary Predicate Logic -- Annex -- Roman Ingarden’s Letter to Edmund Husserl.
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    Kurzfassung: A / History of Physics -- I. Contradiction and Uplation in the Evolution of Physics (1960) -- II. Evolutionary Laws and Perspectives for Physics (1967) -- III. The Huygens-Leibniz-Mach Criticism in the Light of Present Knowledge (1967) -- IV. Max Planck and the Rise of Quantum Theory (1960) -- B / Logic of Physics — General -- V. On the Relation between Mathematics and Physics and Its Historical Development (1967) -- VI. Mathematics as Logical Syntax — A Method to Formalize the Language of a Physical Theory (1938) -- VII. Is the Frequency Limit Interpretation of Probability a Meaningful Idealization? (1946) -- VIII. Problems of Probability Theory in the Light of Quantum Mechanics (1938/39) -- IX. Equivalent Representations and Inequivalent Interpretations in Physics (1965) -- X. Material Structure and Mathematical Structure (1967) -- XI. Space-times and State Spaces (1967) -- XII. Intertheory Relations I — General Problems (1970) -- C / Foundational Studies — Special -- XIII. On the Logic of ‘Inertial Frame’ and ‘Mass’ (1966) -- XIV. The Lorentz Group: Axiomatics — Generalizations — Alternatives (1966) -- XV. Einstein’s Theories and the Critics of Newton — Inter-theory Relations II (1968) -- XVI. The Logic of Complementarity and the Foundation of Quantum Theory (1936) -- XVII. The Paradoxes of Quantum Physics and the Complementary Mode of Description (undated) -- XVIII. Quantum Theory and Logic (1950) -- XIX. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1967) -- XX. Quantum Theory and Philosophy (1960) -- XXI. A Second Foundation for Quantum Theory (1961) -- XXII. Intertheory Relations (III): Quantum Mechanics and Classical Point Mechanics (1970) -- D / In Memoriam Hans Reichenbach -- XXIII. Hans Reichenbach and the Berlin School (1963) -- XXIV. Two Notes on H. Reichenbach’s Logic of Quantum Mechanics (1945).
    Kurzfassung: In selecting the papers for this volume I have excluded all physics papers proper. I have further omitted all book rev.iews. Instead, I have included two papers not published previously; they are marked by an asterisk (*) in the table of contents. Since many of the papers were occasioned by Symposia or similar gatherings their chronological order is rather accidental. Hence I have tried to group the papers thematically into four parts. Within each part the order of sequence is from the more general to the more special, or from a more popular to a more technical treatment. The same principle has been applied to the sequential order of the parts. The foundational papers on quantum mechanics have been arranged in a somewhat dif­ ferent manner. Chapters XVI-XIX are concerned with the logic of complementarity while in Chapters XX-XXII a more radical recon­ ceptualization is carried out. Two of the older papers (Chapters VI and VIII) have been revised to bring them more into line with present terminology. Other papers have been corrected by additions and omissions. Additions are marked by square brackets [ ], while double square brackets [[ II signify omis­ sions or parts to be omitted. Hence [[A]] [B] means that 'A' should be replaced by 'B'. The heading of one paper (Chapter XX) has been changed to make it more descriptive.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I. Bergson’s Biological Theory of Knowledge -- 1. The Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge: Herbert Spencer -- 2. The Intermediate Stage: Helmholtz, Mach and Poincaré -- 3. Bergson’s Amendment of the Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge -- 4. Why Mechanical-Pictorial Models Failed -- 5. The Contrast Between Technical Control and Intellectual Insight: The Persistent Influence of Macroscopic Imagery -- 6. Limitations of Panmathematism -- 7. Negative aspects of Bergson’s Epistemology — Its Relations to Bachelard, Bridgman and Empirio-Criticism -- 8. Bergson, Reichenbach and Piaget -- 9. Logic of Solid Bodies from Plato to Quine -- II. Bergson’s Theory of Duration -- 1. The Meaning of Immediacy -- 2. Content of the Bergsonian Intuition -- 3. The Dynamic Continuity of Duration -- 4. The Incompleteness of Duration: Novelty and its Denials -- 5. Superfluity of Succession in the Deterministic Schemes -- 6. The Leibniz-Fouillé Argument for the Compatibility of Succession and Determinism -- 7. The Heterogeneity of Duration: Lovejoy-Ushenko’s Objections -- 8. The Deeper Meaning of the ‘Indivisible Heterogeneity’ of Duration -- 9. The Unreality of Durationless Instants: Becoming Not MatheMatically Continuous -- 10. The Inadequacy of the Atomistic Theory of Time -- 11. The Unity and Multiplicity of Duration: Bergson, Russell and Brouwer -- 12. Immortality of the Past: Bergson and Whitehead -- 13. James’s and Bergson’s Views of the Past Compared -- 14. The Irreversibility of Duration: The Comments of Royce and Ingarden -- 15. Duration as Concrete Universal. Bergson and Croce -- 16. An Outline of Bergon’s Philosophy of Mathematics -- III. Bergson’s Theory of the Physical World and its Relations to Contemporary Physics -- 1. The Reality of Duration in the Physical World and its Implications -- 2. Different Degrees of Temporal Span. Microcosmos as Micro-chronos -- 3. Two Fundamental Questions -- 4. The Rejection of the Cartesian Dogma of the Completely Extensionless Mind -- 5. The Correlation of Different Temporal Rhythms with Different Degrees of Extension -- 6. Juxtaposition as the Ideal Limit of Distended Duration -- 7. The Negation of Instantaneous Space in the Relativistic Physics -- 8. Bergson and Einstein. The Physical World as Extensive Becoming -- 9. Limitations and Usefulness of the Corpuscular Models -- 10. Change without Vehicle and Container. Fallacy of Simple Location -- 11. Limits of the Criticism of Simple Location: Contemporary Independence -- 12. The Indeterminacy of Microphysical Events. Bergson and Boutroux -- 13. Bergson and Louis De Broglie -- 14. Physical Events as Proto-Mental Entities. Bergson, White-head and Bohm -- 15 The Significance and the Limitations of Auditory Models. Bergson and Strawson -- 16. Concluding Remarks: the World of Laplace and the World of Bergson -- Appendix I. Russell’s Hidden Bergsonism -- Appendix II. Microphysical Indeterminacy and Free-Dom. Bergson and Peirce -- Appendix III. Bergson’s Thoughts on Entropy and Cosmogony -- Additional Selected Bibliography -- Extract from Bergson’s Letter -- Index of Names and Subjects.
    Kurzfassung: Milic Capek has devoted his scholarship to the history and philosophy of modern physics. With impeccable care, he has mastered the epistemologi­ cal and scientific developments by working through the papers, treatises, correspondence of physicists since Kant, and likewise he has put his learning and critical skill into the related philosophical literature. Coming from his original scientific career with a philosophy doctorate from the Charles University in Prague, Capek has ranged beyond a narrowly defined philosophy of physics into general epistemology of the natural sciences and to the full historical evolution of these matters. He has ex­ pounded his views on these matters in a number of articles and, systema­ tically, in his book The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary PhYSiCS, published in 1961 and reprinted with two new appendices in 1969. His particular gift for many of his readers and students lies in the great period from the mid-nineteenth century through the foundations of the physics and philosophy of the twentieth, and within this spectacular time, Profes­ sor Capek has become a principal expositor and sympathetic critic of the philosophy of Henri Bergson. He joins a distinguished group of scholars -physicists and philosophers -who have been stimulated to some of their most profound and imaginative thought by Bergson's metaphysical and psychological work: Cassirer, Meyerson, de Broglie, Metz, Jankelevitch, Zawirski, and in recent years, Costa de Beauregard, Watanabe, Blanche, and others.
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    Kurzfassung: Kant and Whitehead, and the Philosophy of Mathematics -- Whitehead on Symbolic Reference -- The Understanding of the Past -- Causal Efficacy and Continuity In Whitehead’s Philosophy -- Whitehead’s “Actual Occasion” -- The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne -- The Metaphysics of Whitehead’s Feelings.
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    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 8
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    Kurzfassung: Symposium: Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation -- Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation -- Explanation and Relevance: Comments on James G. Greeno’s ‘Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation’ -- Remarks on Explanatory Power -- Symposium: Capacities and Natures -- Capacities and Natures -- Capacities and Natures: An Exercise in Ontology -- Fisk on Capacities and Natures -- Symposium: History of Science and its Rational Reconstruction -- History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions -- Notes on Lakatos -- Research Programmes and Induction -- Can We Use the History of Science to Decide Between Competing Methodologies? -- Inter-Theoretic Criticism and the Growth of Science -- Replies to Critics -- Contributed Papers -- I. Observation -- Observation -- Feyerabend’s Pragmatic Theory of Observation and the Comparability of Alternative Theories -- Observations as the Building Blocks of Science in 20th-Century Scientific Thought -- II. Philosophical Problems of Biology -- Functionalism and the Negative Feedback Model in Biology -- Some Problems with the Concept of ‘Feedback’ -- Articulation of Parts Explanation in Biology and the Rational Search for Them -- III. Equivalence, Analyticity, and In-Principle Confirmability -- Theoretical Realism and Theoretical Equivalence -- Theoretical Analyticity -- The Confirmation Machine -- IV. Probability, Statistics and Acceptance -- Unknown Probabilities, Bayesianism, and de Finetti’s Representation Theorem -- New Dimensions of Confirmation Theory II: The Structure of Uncertainty -- Cost-Benefit vs Expected Utility Acceptance Rules -- Material Conditions on Tests of Statistical Hypotheses -- V. Problems in Quantum Physics; Genetic Epistemology -- Tachyons, Backwards Causation, and Freedom -- The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox Reexamined -- The Significance of Piaget’s Researches on the Psychogenesis of Atomism -- VI. Theoretical Pluralism; Understanding; Methodological Agreement -- Method and Factual Agreement in Science -- VII. Induction and Reduction -- Dispositional Probabilities -- On the Relation of Neurological and Psychological Theories: A Critique of the Hardware Thesis -- ‘Self-supporting’ Inductive Arguments -- VIII. Scientific Theories: Comparison and Change -- Ontological and Terminological Commitment and the Methodological Commensurability of Theories -- Objectivity, Scientific Change, and Self-Reference -- A Logical Empiricist Theory of Scientific Change? -- IX. The Future of Philosophy of Science; Theory in the Social Sciences -- The Structure, Growth and Application of Scientific Knowledge: Reflections on Relevance and the Future of Philosophy of Science -- From Logical Systems to Conceptual Populations -- Two Kinds of Theory in the Social Sciences -- X. Relativity and Congruence -- Einstein and the Lorentz-Poincaré Theory of Relativity -- Competing Radical Translations: Examples, Limitations and Implications -- Is ‘Congruence’ A Peculiar Predicate?.
    Kurzfassung: This book contains the papers presented at the second biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Boston in Fall, 1970. We have added the paper by Jaakko Hintikka which he was unable to present due to illness, and we have unfortunately not received the paper of Michael Scriven. Otherwise, these proceedings are complete so far as formal presentations. The meeting itself was dedicated to the memory of Rudolf Carnap. This great man and distinguished philosopher had died shortly before. The five talks from the session devoted to recollections of Professor Carnap are printed at the beginning of this book, and they are followed by eight other tributes and memories. We are particularly grateful to Wolfgang Stegmiiller for permitting us to include a translation of his eloge which was broadcast in Germany. The photographs were kindly contributed by Hannah Thost-Carnap. ROGER C. BUCK Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University ROBER T S. COHEN Boston Center for the Philosophy of Science, Boston University Photograph by Francis Schmidt, 1935 Photograph by Adya, 1962 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE v HOMAGE TO RUDOLF CARNAP XI Herbert Feigl, Carl G. Hempel, Richard C. Jeffrey, W. V. Quine, A. Shimony, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Herbert G. Bohnert, Robert S. Cohen, Charles Hartshorne, David Kaplan, Charles Morris, Maria Reichenbach, Wolfgang Stegmiiller SYMPOSIUM: THEORETICAL ENTITIES IN STATISTICAL EXPLANATION JAMES G. GREENO / Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation 3 WESLEY C. SALMON / Explanation and Relevance: Comments on James G.
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    Kurzfassung: I / Philosophy of Science -- I. A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning -- II. On Elementary Particle Theory -- III. Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies -- IV. Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy -- II / History of Science -- V. Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics -- VI. The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics -- III / General Philosophy -- VII. On Being in Two Places at Once -- VIII. Copernicus’ Rôle in Kant’s Revolution -- IX. It’s Actual, so It’s Possible -- X. On Having the Same Visual Experiences -- XI. Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments -- IV / Logic -- XII. Imagining the Impossible -- XIII. On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics -- XIV. Good Inductive Reasons -- XV. A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity -- XVI. The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science -- XVII. The Idea of a Logic of Discovery -- V / Religion -- XVIII. The Agnostic’s Dilemma -- XIX. What I Don’t Believe -- VI / The Theory Of Flight -- Introduction, by Edward MacKinnon, S.J. -- XX. Lecture One: The Discovery of Air -- XXI. Lecture Two: The Shape of An Idea -- XXII. Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape.
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: A Model of Mind-Body Relation in Terms of Modular Logic (October 26, 1961) -- Comments -- Comments -- 2 The Relationship of Language to the Formation of Concepts Summary of Oral Presentation (November 30, 1961) -- 3 The Logical Structure of Physics (December 14, 1961) -- Discussion -- 4 Modal Logics I: Modalities and Intensional Languages (February 8. 1962) -- Comments -- Discussion -- 5 Modal Logics II: Toward a Formal Analysis of Cultural Objects (March 8, 1962) -- 6(a) Deterministic Interpretations of the Quantum Theory (March 27, 1962) -- 6(b) Operational Aspects of Hidden-Variable Quantum Theories — With a Postscript on The Impact of Recent Scientific Trends on Art (March 27, 1962) -- Comments -- 7 The Falsifiability of Theories: Total or Partial? A Contemporary Evaluation of the Duhem-Quine Thesis (April 26.1962) -- Comments -- 8(a) Perception and Language Summary of Oral Presentation (May 17, 1962) -- 8(b) Perception: Cause and Achievement Summary of Oral Presentation (May 17, 1962).
    Kurzfassung: The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical questions of ontology and epistemology in a unique way, bringing to traditional conceptions the analytic apparatus of modern logic, and the new content and conceptual models of active scientific investigations. These sources are reflected in the present volume, which consists of the major portion of the papers presented to the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science in the academic year 1961-1962. There is no central theme nor any dominant approach in this colloquium. Initiated in 1960 as an inter-university interdisciplinary faculty group, the Colloqnium is intended to foster creative and regular exchange of research and opinion, to provide a forum for professional discussion in the philosophy of science, and to stimulate the development of academic programs in philosophy of science in the colleges and universities of metropolitan Boston. The base of the Colloquium is our philosophic and scientific community, as broad and heterodox as the academic, cultural and techno­ logical complex in and about this city. The Colloquium has been supported in its first full year, as an inter-institutional cooperative association, by a generous grant to Boston University from the U. S. National Science Foundation. We are most grateful for this help.
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    ISBN: 9789401033145
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Serie: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 30
    Serie: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 30
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: 1 / Introduction -- 1.1. Program -- 1.2. Historical Background -- 1.3. Formal Preliminaries -- 2 / Individuals -- 2.1. Outline of Goodman’s Conception -- 2.2. Part-Whole Relations -- 2.3. Atomistic Universes of Individuals -- 2.4. The Leonard-Goodman Calculus of Individuals LGCI -- 2.5. The General Calculus CII of Atomistic Individuals -- 2.6. Finite Sums and Products: The Calculus CIII -- 2.7. Infinite Sums and Products: The Calculus CIIII -- 2.8. Non-Atomistic Universes of Individuals -- 2.9. The Non-Atomistic Calculus CIIV and some Extensions -- 2.10. Sequential Individuals and the Calculus of Individual Relations -- 3 / Ontological Commitment and Designata of Expressions -- 3.1. Ontological Implications of Theories -- 3.2. One-Place Predicates and their Extensions -- 3.3. Truth Conditions and Relations of Predication -- 3.4. Expressions of Relations and Operations -- 3.5. Denotationless Symbols and Nominalistic Models -- 4 / Bundles of Qualities, Qualities, and Concreta -- 4.1. Bundles of Qualities and their Calculus CB -- 4.2. Resemblance and its Calculus CR -- 4.3. Qualities and their Calculus CQ -- 4.4. Concreta -- 4.5. Further Problems and Conclusion -- Symbolic Notation -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Kurzfassung: 1. 1. PROGRAM It will be our aim to reconstruct, with precision, certain views which have been traditionally associated with nominalism and to investigate problems arising from these views in the construction of interpreted formal systems. Several such systems are developed in accordance with the demand that the sentences of a system which is acceptable to a nominalist must not imply the existence of any entities other than individuals. Emphasis will be placed on the constructionist method of philosophical analysis. To follow this method is to introduce the central notions of the subject-matter to be investigated into a system governed by exact rules. For example, the constructionist method of investigating the properties of geometric figures may consist in formulating a system of postulates and definitions which, together with the apparatus of formal logic, generates all necessary truths concerning geometric figures. Similarly, a constructionist analysis of the notion of an individual may take the form of an axiomatic theory whose provable assertions are just those which seem essential to the role played by the concept of an individual in system­ atic contexts. Such axiomatic theories gain in interest if they are supple­ mented by precise semantical rules specifying the denotation of all terms and the truth conditions of all sentences of the theory.
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    ISBN: 9789401033268
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    Serie: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 1
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: Die phänomenologische Selbstbesinnung. I: Der Leib und die Transzcndentalität in der gegenwärtigen phänomenologischen und psychiatrischen Forschung -- World-Constitution. Reflections on Husserl’s Transcendental Idealism -- Die Vier Begriffe der Transzendenz und das Problem des Idealismus in Husserl -- Intcntionality and Corporeity -- Intentionalität und Transzendenz Zur Konstitution der materiellen Natur -- Husserl’s Concept of Intcntionality -- The Concept of the Body in Transcendental Phenomenology and in Modern Biology -- On Knowing One’s Own Body -- Das Problem der ????? in der Philosophie Edmund Husserls -- Die Wissenschaften vom Menschen und Husserls Theorie von zwei Einstellungen -- Embodied Consciousness and the Human Spirit.
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    ISBN: 9789401032964
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    Suppl.: Rezensiert in Hallett, Garth [Rezension von: Hintikka, Jaakko, Information and Inference] 1972
    Serie: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 28
    Serie: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 28
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: I. Information and Induction -- On Semantic Information -- Bayesian Information Usage -- Experimentation as Communication with Nature -- II. Information and Some Problems of the Scientific Method -- On the Information Provided by Observations -- Quantitative Tools for Evaluating Scientific Systematizations -- Qualitative Information and Entropy Structures -- III. Information and Learning -- Learning and the Structure of Information -- IV. New Applications of Information Concepts -- Surface Information and Depth Information -- Towards a General Theory of Auxiliary Concepts and Definability in First-Order Theories -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Kurzfassung: In the last 25 years, the concept of information has played a crucial role in communication theory, so much so that the terms information theory and communication theory are sometimes used almost interchangeably. It seems to us, however, that the notion of information is also destined to render valuable services to the student of induction and probability, of learning and reinforcement, of semantic meaning and deductive inference, as~well as of scientific method in general. The present volume is an attempt to illustrate some of these uses of information concepts. In 'On Semantic Information' Hintikka summarizes some of his and his associates' recent work on information and induction, and comments briefly on its philosophical suggestions. Jamison surveys from the sub­ jectivistic point of view some recent results in 'Bayesian Information Usage'. Rosenkrantz analyzes the information obtained by experimen­ tation from the Bayesian and Neyman-Pearson standpoints, and also from the standpoint of entropy and related concepts. The much-debated principle of total evidence prompts Hilpinen to examine the problem of measuring the information yield of observations in his paper 'On the Information Provided by Observations'. Pietarinen addresses himself to the more general task of evaluating the systematizing ('explanatory') power of hypotheses and theories, a task which quickly leads him to information concepts. Domotor develops a qualitative theory of information and entropy. His paper gives what is probably the first axiomatization of a general qualitative theory of information adequate to guarantee a numerical representation of the standard sort.
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    ISBN: 9789401714624
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    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 6
    Serie: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 6
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: Ernst Mach — His Life as a Teacher and Thinker -- On Mach’s Contributions to the Analysis of Sensations -- Mach’s Contribution to the Development of Gas Dynamics -- On Mach’s Curiosity about Shockwaves -- Ernst Mach and Contemporary Physics -- The Genesis of Mach’s Early Views on Atomism -- Mathematical Implications of Mach’s Ideas: Positivistic Geometry, The Clarification of Functional Connections -- Ernst Mach: Physics, Perception and the Philosophy of Science -- Mach, Einstein and the Search for Reality -- Mach’s Principle and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation -- Appendices -- A. The Importance of Ernst Mach’S Philosophy of Science for Our Times -- B. Ernst Mach and the Unity of Science -- C. Ernst Mach and the Empiricist Conception of Science -- D. Ernst Mach: Biographical Data -- E. Ernst Mach: Bibliography -- Index of Names.
    Kurzfassung: At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., 27 December 1966, a symposium was held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Ernst Mach, the physicist who was vitally concerned about philosophical foundations. It was arranged by Section B on Physics, and co-sponsored by Section L on the History and Philosophy of Science, as well as by the History of Science Society. Dr. Allen W. Astin, Vice-President of the Association and Director of the National Bureau of Standards, presided. Representing the Austrian ambassador, Dr. Ernst Lemberger, a few opening remarks on his behalf were made by Dr. Walter Hietsch. Also present was Dr. Ernest A. Lederer, a grandson of Ernst Mach. The contributors, to the symposium, mostly physicists, represented different backgrounds and differing points of view; they presented their review of Mach's work primarily in the light of subsequent developments. They all, however, share a common interest in the life and works of Ernst Mach. Two of them, Otto BlUh and Peter G. Bergmann, received their doctoral degrees in theoretical physics from the University of Prague. Karl Menger received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Vienna (he is responsible for the latest edition [1960] of Mach's celebrated The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of its Development, for which he prepared a new Introduction).
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    Suppl.: Rezensiert in Viganò, Mario [Rezension von: Weingartner, Paul, Induction, Physics, and Ethics, Proceedings and discussions of the Salzburg Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science] 1971
    Serie: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 31
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    Kurzfassung: Section I/Induction and Probability -- Initial Probabilities: A Prerequisite for any Valid Induction -- Discussion of Bruno de Finetti’s Paper ‘Initial Probabilities: A Prerequisite for any Valid Induction’ -- Linguistically Invariant Inductive Logic -- Comments on ‘Linguistically Invariant Inductive Logic’ by Ian Hacking -- Logical Probability, Mathematical Statistics, and the Problem of Induction -- Statistics, Induction, and Lawlikeness: Comments on Dr. Vetter’s Paper -- Section II / Foundations of Physics -- New Approach to Interpretation Problems of General Relativity by Means of the Splitting-Up-Formalism of Space-Time -- Comments on Professor Schmutzer’s Paper -- Simultaneity by Slow Clock Transport in the Special Theory of Relativity -- Foundations of Quantum Theory; Statistical Interpretation (Introductory talk) -- Comments on H. J. Groenewold ‘Foundations of Quantum Theory’ -- Intertheory Relations -- Problems Concerning Intertheory Relations -- Section III / Science and Ethics: The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist -- The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist -- Science and Responsibility -- The Relation of Modern Scientific Conceptions to the Human Image -- Science and Ethics -- Scientists and Ethics — A Case History -- Modern Science and Social Responsibility -- Index of Names.
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