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  • 1
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Den Haag : Junk ; 5.1957 -
    ISSN: 0077-0639
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 5.1957 -
    Additional Information: 18=1; 19=2 von Biogeography and ecology in South America The Hague, 1968
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Monographiae biologicae
    Former Title: Vorg. Physiologia comparata et oecologia
    DDC: 570
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Physiologie ; Medizin
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  • 2
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    Leiden : Brill | 's-Gravenhage : Mouton | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht : Kluwer | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1957 -
    ISSN: 0019-7246 , 1572-8536
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1957 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Indo-Iranian journal
    RVK:
    Keywords: Indoiranisch ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Indoiranisch ; Zeitschrift
    Note: Index 1/20.1957/78=26.1983,1/3
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  • 3
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    Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Kluwer | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1974 -
    Associated volumes
    ISSN: 0304-2421 , 1573-7853 , 1573-7853
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1974 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Theory and society
    RVK:
    Keywords: Zeitschrift
    Note: Index 1/10.1974/81 in: 10.1981,6; 11/19.1982/90 in: 19.1990,6
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  • 4
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer ; 1.1971 -
    Associated volumes
    ISSN: 0167-7276
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1971 -
    Additional Information: 3=2; 5=3 von International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society Papers and debate of the ... international conference held by the International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel, 1974
    Additional Information: 7=5 von International Phenomenology Conference (ZDB) Selected papers from the ... International Phenomenology Conference Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel, 1975
    Additional Information: 6=4; 9=6 von International Phenomenology Conference (ZDB) Papers read at the International Phenomenology Conference Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel, 1977
    Additional Information: 2=[1] von International Phenomenological Conference (ZDB) Papers and debate of the International Phenomenological Conference Dordrecht : Reidel Publishing, 1972
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Analecta Husserliana
    Former Title: Vorg. Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Phänomenologie
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  • 5
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer ; 1.1974 -
    ISSN: 0921-8599 , 0169-7323
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1974 -
    Additional Information: 11=1 von Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter (ZDB) Papers presented at the ... Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer Acad. Publ., 1978 0333-5135
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Philosophical studies series
    Former Title: Philosophical studies series in philosophy
    Former Title: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 6
    Journal/Serial
    Journal/Serial
    Dordrecht : Springer | Den Haag : Junk ; 5.1957 -
    ISSN: 0077-0639
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 5.1957 -
    Additional Information: 18=1; 19=2 von Biogeography and ecology in South America The Hague, 1968
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Monographiae biologicae
    Former Title: Vorg. Physiologia comparata et oecologia
    DDC: 570
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Physiologie ; Medizin
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  • 7
    Journal/Serial
    Journal/Serial
    Dordrecht : Springer | Den Haag : Junk ; 5.1957 -
    ISSN: 0077-0639
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 5.1957 -
    Additional Information: 18=1; 19=2 von Biogeography and ecology in South America The Hague, 1968
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Monographiae biologicae
    Former Title: Vorg. Physiologia comparata et oecologia
    DDC: 570
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Physiologie ; Medizin
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  • 8
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1974 -
    Associated volumes
    ISSN: 0304-2421 , 1573-7853 , 1573-7853
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1974 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Theory and society
    DDC: 300
    RVK:
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaft ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Theorie ; Soziologische Theorie ; Logik der Sozialwissenschaft ; Zeitschrift
    Note: Index 1/10.1974/81 in: 10.1981,6; 11/19.1982/90 in: 19.1990,6
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9789401022965
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (162p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 25
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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  • 10
    ISBN: 9789401021302
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (224p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 9
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Logic ; Philosophy, Ancient.
    Abstract: One Ancient Semantics -- Aristotle on Spoken Sound Significant by Convention -- Inarticulate Noises -- Notes for a Linguistic Reading of the Categories -- Two Modern Research in Ancient Logic -- Greek Mathematics and Greek Logic -- Modern Notations and Ancient Logic -- Three Aristotle’s Logic -- Aristotle’s Natural Deduction System -- Corcoran on Aristotle’ Logical Theory -- Four Stoic Logic -- Deduction in Stoic Logic -- Remarks on Stoic Deduction -- Five Final Session of the Symposium -- Future Research on Ancient Theories of Communication and Reasoning -- A Panel Discussion on Future Research in Ancient Logical Theory -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: During the last half century there has been revolutionary progress in logic and in logic-related areas such as linguistics. HistoricaI knowledge of the origins of these subjects has also increased significantly. Thus, it would seem that the problem of determining the extent to which ancient logical and linguistic theories admit of accurate interpretation in modern terms is now ripe for investigation. The purpose of the symposium was to gather logicians, philosophers, linguists, mathematicians and philologists to present research results bearing on the above problem with emphasis on logic. Presentations and discussions at the symposium focused themselves into five areas: ancient semantics, modern research in ancient logic, Aristotle's logic, Stoic logic, and directions for future research in ancient logic and logic-related areas. Seven of the papers which appear below were originally presented at the symposium. In every case, discussion at the symposium led to revisions, in some cases to extensive revisions. The editor suggested still further revisions, but in every case the author was the finaljudge of the work that appears under his name.
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  • 11
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    ISBN: 9789401020930
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (561p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 16
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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  • 12
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    ISBN: 9789401022514
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (140p) , digital
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    Series Statement: 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 67
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 67
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: 1 / The Structuralist Endeavour -- 1. The World as Musical Score -- 2. The Concept of ‘Structure’ -- 3. Epistemological Grounds -- 4. Sociology and Structuralism -- 2 / Moscow -- 1. Constellations -- 2. Russian Formalism -- 3. Formalism and Marxism -- 3 / Prague -- 1. Constellations -- 2. Czech Structuralism -- 4 / Paris -- 1. Constellations -- 2. Parisian Structuralism -- 3. Philosophical Designs -- 5 / What is Structuralistic Philosophizing? -- 1. Series -- 2. Ordo -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The use of the word 'structuralism', not only as a title for the present book but also as a valuable indication for outstanding philosophical and cultural developments of our century, may embarrass the English reader. The same might be the case regarding some of the philosophical thoughts developed in connexion with this structuralism. Emphasis is namely not on a set of technical operations using ideas and conceptions closely linked up with 'structural' or 'systematical' analyses, system and in formation theories, biology, psychology and even literary criticism. On the contrary, the concept of structuralism here defmitely refers to a holistic approach, not unlike existentialism or phenomenology. Many philosophical implications of this structuralism are however quite different from those contained in existential philosophies. The first difference applies to philosophy itself: no existential thinker will doubt or deny that the thoughts developed are genuine philoso­ phical thoughts. Structuralism however does not take that decision before­ hand, and thus no longer restricts itself to the traditionallaws and habits of philosophical reasoning. It presents itself on the one hand as a holistic attempt to interpret reality among lines of philosophical argumentation, bu t tries to do so without the decision that this argumentation leads to philoso­ phy. Structuralism therefore presents itself as a specific activity, a modus operandi in reality itself.
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  • 13
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    ISBN: 9789401019941
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (220p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees 65
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 65
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Science Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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  • 14
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    ISBN: 9789401092784
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (374p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 7-2
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 7-2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: II: Economics of Information and Organization -- Introductory Note -- 19. Optimal Inventory Policy (1951) -- 20. Towards an Economic Theory of Organization and Information (1954) -- 21. Elements for a Theory of Teams (1955) -- 22. Efficient and Viable Organizational Forms (1959) -- 23. Remarks on the Economics of Information (1959) -- 24. Theory of an Efficient Several Person Firm (1960) -- 25. Problems in Information Economics (1964) -- 26. The Cost of Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Discussion (1956) -- 27. Economics of Language (1965) -- 28. Economic Planning and the Cost of Thinking (1966) -- 29. Economic Comparability of Information Systems (1968) -- 30. Economics of Inquiring, Communicating, Deciding (1968) -- 31. Economics of Information Systems (1971) -- 32. Optimal Systems for Information and Decision (1972) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9789401020015
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (131p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studien zur Regierungslehre und Internationalen Politik 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: I: Introduction: Problems of Theory-Building in the Study of International Organization -- 1.1 Development of Research and Its Inadequacies -- 1.2 The Quest for New Directions in Theory Building -- 2: Sociocultural Evolution and Sociopolitical Organization -- 2.1 Research on the Changing Scale of Sociopolitical Organization -- 2.2 Sociocultural Evolution — General and Specific Aspects -- 2.3 Evolution of Sociopolitical Organization -- 2.4 Analysis of the Evolutionary Process -- 3: The International Organization Level of Integration and Its Relationship to the Nation State -- 3.1 Structural Means of Integration at the International Organization Level -- 3.2 Interrelations Among Structural Dimensions of International Organization-Building and Patterns of Growth -- 3.3 International Organization and the Nation-State System -- 4: Industrial Civilization and the Causes of International Organization-Building -- 4.1 Theoretical Analysis -- 4.2 Empirical Domain and the Operationalization of Variables -- 4.3 Data Analysis -- 5: International Organization-Building and Integration Within the Global Context -- 5.1 The Dependent Variable: International Integration -- 5.2 Three Theories of International Integration -- 5.3 Data Analysis -- 6: Summary and Conclusions.
    Abstract: unlike the historical-descriptive or legalistic approaches still pervading the majority of publications on international organization, has an implicit (empirical-) theoretical orientation. As a concomitant development, Yalem notes an increasing methodological 6 sophistication among some students of international organization. However, except for some favorable comments on the evolving theory of international community formation, Yalem does not evaluate the contribution of the empirical-theory-cum­ methodology literature to the study of international organization. More recently, Riggs and his associates (1970) and Alger (1960-70; 1970) have taken it upon themselves to do just this. The analysis of the impact of bthavioralism on the study of the United Nations system by Robert Riggs and his associates is a rather devastating indictment. Though demonstrating a concern to present balanced and qualified conclusions from their pemsal of the relevant literature, they summarize their assessment in the following statement: Behavioral research has probably been the most disappointing in the area of its central concern, that of theory-building. The grand theories tend to be heuristic in nature, divorced from the essential data base; and the best-supported proposi­ tions have the natrowest theoretical significance. Despite its aims and pretensions, the approach has not yet produced a coherent set of explanatory propositions to bring order or scientific exactness to the study of international organization or any substantial segment of it (Riggs et al. , 1970: 230).
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    ISBN: 9789401020756
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    Series Statement: Plan Europe 2000 8
    Series Statement: Plan Europe 2000, Project 1: Educating Man for the 21st Century 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Education ; Continuing education.
    Abstract: I. System of Values Underlying This Project -- What Type of Society? -- For What Kind of Man? -- II. Main Trends and Margins of Choice -- Central Hypotheses -- Concentration of Means of Production -- Concentration of Decision-Making -- Increasing Division of Labour -- Increasing Leisure Time -- Increasing Consumption of Goods and Services -- Proliferation of Information -- Increasing Demand for Education -- A Plan for Education is Always a Political Plan -- III. The Political and the Educational -- Education: Product and Motive Force -- Under What Circumstances Can Social Conditions be a Cultural Factor? -- To What Extent Can the Educational System Correct Cultural Inequalities? -- The Proposal We are Backing: Permanent Education -- IV. Guiding Principles of Our Plan -- Continuity in Space and Time — Structural Incidences -- Developing and Using Human Faculties to the Full — Definition of This Principle — Structural incidences -- V. General Structures -- Pre-School Education -- The Basic School -- Post-School Education -- VI. General Education and Specialization -- What is General Education? -- Curricula Only Have Meaning When Related to Objectives -- Definition of General Education — Our Aims -- General Education and Common Curriculum -- General Education and Special Options -- VII. Assisted Independent Learning, Auto-Assessment and Autonomy -- Introductory remarks -- How Modern Technology is Likely to Affect the Fundamentals of Teaching Methods -- Methods of Self-Education -- Self-Assessment -- Assisting Independent Learners -- By Way of Conclusion: Pluralism -- VIII. Creativity and Socialization -- Education for Personal Development -- Development of Creativity -- Development of Man as a Social Being -- IX. The Educational and Cultural District -- Purposes and Size of the District -- The District Administration Knows, Informs and Guides the Consumers -- The District Offers Courses Matched to Demand -- The District Recruits, Manages and Trains Its Teaching Staff -- The District Organizes, Manages and Distributes Aids and Equipment -- The District as a Public Concern -- X. Functions of Central Administration -- Definition and Implementation of an Educational Policy -- Predicting demand and planning. Programmes and curricula. Evaluation of methods. Legislation -- Organizing Public Information and Participation -- Implementation of a Policy for Teacher Training and Utilization -- Implementation of a Policy for the Development of Educational Technology -- Implementation of a Policy for Educational Research and Innovation -- Conclusion -- The Problem of Costs -- Initial Steps — the Transition Period -- Annexes -- I — Educational credit -- II — System of capitalizable units -- III — An example of a primary school in Great Britain -- V — An adult education scheme in the Lorraine Iron Ore Mining District -- VI — Implications of open-plan schools -- VII — The use of a medium (film) as an aid in self-instruction -- VIII — The Handen (Sweden) public library -- The Author.
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    ISBN: 9789401020220
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (240p) , digital
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Elders, L. [Rezension von: Collins, Ardis B., The secular is sacred. Platonism and Thomism in Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology] 1974
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas 69
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 69
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: History
    Abstract: One: The Search for God -- Two: The Approach to God through Unity and Power -- Three: The Approach to God through Being -- Four: The Metaphysical Structure of Creatures, Mortal and Immortal -- Five: The Special Presence of God to Man -- Six: Philosophy Seeks What Religion Worships -- Appendix: Texts for Comparison.
    Abstract: This book presents a philosophical position examined philosophically. Although it does not go beyond the confines ofFicino's perspective and is governed by standards of historical accuracy, it makes explicit in its explanation ofFicino's text the enduring philosophical questions which are at issue there. True, the book examines in some detail Ficino's relation to his Platonic and Scholastic sources, and this is an issue of primary interest to those who study the history of culture or the his­ torical development of philosophy. However, in Ficino's thought, this issue is also a philosophical issue. Ficino chooses Platonism as his guide because this philosophy retains an explicit and essential orientation to religion. When he takes Platonism as the primary instance of philoso­ phy, he is taking a stand on the nature of philosophy itself. Philosophy necessarily points toward the divinity and hence is necessarily related to the veneration and worship of its object. Christian theology joins Platonic philosophy in this movement toward God, developing more completely the implications of its fundamental insights. And the 1 "splendor of Christian theology" is Thomas Aquinas. Therefore, to examine the relationship between Platonism and Thomism in Ficino's thought is to examine Ficino's position on the unity of philosophy and theology. Scholars writing about Ficino have pointed to three major influences on his thought. The influence of Plato and the neo-Platonists, of course, is readily recognized.
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    ISBN: 9789401092760
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (407p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 7-1
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 7-1
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I: Economics of Decision -- Introductory Note -- 1. Rational Behavior, Uncertain Prospects, and Measurable Utility (1950) -- 2. Why ‘Should’ Statisticians and Businessmen Maximize ‘Moral Expectation’ ? (1951) -- 3. Scaling of Utilities and Probabilities (1954) -- 4. Probability in the Social Sciences (1954) -- 5. Norms and Habits of Decision Making Under Certainty (1955) -- 6. Experimental Tests of a Stochastic Decision Theory (1959) -- 7. Random Orderings and Stochastic Theories of Responses (1960) -- 8. Binary-Choice Constraints and Random Utility Indicators (1960) -- 9. Actual Versus Consistent Decision Behavior (1964) -- 10. Stochastic Models of Choice Behavior (1963) -- 11. On Adaptive Programming (1963) -- 12. An Experimental Study of Some Stochastic Models for Wagers (1963) -- 13. The Payoff-Relevant Description of States and Acts (1963) -- 14. Probabilities of Choices Among Very Similar Objects: An Experiment to Decide Between Two Models (1963) -- 15. Measuring Utility by a Single-Response Sequential Method (1964) -- 16. Decision Making: Economic Aspects (1968) -- 17. The Economic Man’s Logic (1970) -- 18. Economics of Acting, Thinking, and Surviving (1974) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The papers of Jacob Marschak which follow in these volumes are an extraordinary combination of original and fruitful departures in economic and social thought, superb clarity of exposition, and sensitivity to the values of earlier work and even competing traditions. They make us marvel alike at their variety, their quantity, and their quality. But they do not, even so, fully reflect Marschak's contributions to the development of social science. He has had an unusual influence as one who exercises leadership. In a formal, organizational sense, this role has been manifest in his capacity as Director of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, then at the University of Chicago, in that organization's most productive and influential period, and later in his central role in the Western Management Science Institute, at the University of California at Los Angeles. I can speak from first-hand knowledge about the first. His special capacities are, first, the recognition of promising new concepts and of promising young scholars, and, second, getting his colleagues to join him in developing the ideas and involving them fully in the necessary tasks. There was an unusual combination of strength and humility in his methods; a display of force in pushing the work along but a willingness, almost an insistence, on treating even the most junior associate as a fully equal colleague in intellectual develop­ ment, whose criticism of himself was to be encouraged. His leadership has been exercised in the absence of formal positions.
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    Series Statement: A Review of the Principles of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: 1 Electric and Magnetic Fields -- 2 Electrical Machines -- 3 Power Networks -- 4 Ionized Gases -- Appendix Three-phase Circuits and Systems.
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    Series Statement: Plan Europe 2000, Project 1: Educating Man for the 21st Century 6
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    Keywords: Education ; Education—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1 Aims and Purposes of the University in Europe in the Year 2000 -- I: Formulating the Problem -- II: Present Trends relative to the traditional Tasks of the University -- III: Present Trends in Group Attitudes and Pressures -- IV: Aims and Purposes of the University -- 2 Pedagogical Action -- I: Factors of Change -- II: Two present Trends in Action and Research in Pedagogy at the University Level -- III: Pedagogy and Society: Two Models -- IV: A concrete Prospective -- 3 Cost and Financing Problems in University Education -- I: Economic Constraints affecting the Development of European Universities -- II: Sources and Methods of Financing: Possible Alternatives and Implications -- III: Institutionalised Planning for Change -- 4 The University System: Structures and Relationships with the Power Structure -- I: Assumptions -- II: Trends -- III: Patterns of Evolution -- Annex 1 Three Models of Society and Their Pedagogical Implications -- Section 1: 3 models of the Evolution of European Societies -- A. Adaptation of Society to the Evolution of the present economic System -- B. Reform of Society -- C. Radical Change of Relationship between Society and the economic System -- D. Conclusion -- Section 2: The University educational System in Model 1 -- Section 3: The University System in Model 2 -- Section 4: The University System in Model 3 -- General Conclusions -- Annex 2 Notes on Some Factors Related to the Evolution of Knowledge -- 1. Unity or University -- 2. Science and Ideology -- 3. Intellectual Creation -- 4. Mental Processes -- 5. The Physical Sciences and Technology in the Service of Pedagogy -- 6. Provisional Conclusions -- Annex 3 Charts: Annual Increase in University Expenditure for 1950/60–1970 -- Statistical Sources -- France -- Germany (Fed. Rep) -- The Netherlands -- Norway -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Biographical Notes.
    Abstract: In instituting its prospective studies the European Cultural Founda­ tion has to some extent gone against tradition. Until now those who were deeply committed to the idea of a European Community looked into the past rather than into the future for bases on which the com­ munity could be integrated. However, if we want a European society to become a reality it must be built on the basis of shared fundamental values. The majority of publications dealing with a unified or inte­ grated Europe have until now accepted that this foundation guarantee­ ing the stability of a future European society should be found in certain common elements of the history of the European nations. The futurological studies instituted by the European Cultural Foun­ dation have not rejected this mode of approach outright. They have respected the historical framework indispensable to any futurological undertaking. But the research and discussions of the groups working within the framework of Plan Europe 2000 offer increasing support to the conviction expressed by Gaston Deurinck in the first words of his introduction to the present study: "The future does not exist .. thf〉 future is to be created, and before being created, it must be conceived, it must be invented, and finally willed" .
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas 15
    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor 15
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History.
    Abstract: I -- II -- I. The Novel’s Composition -- II.Characterization -- III.Thematic Content -- IV.Novelistic Techniques -- III -- IV -- I.La Princesse de Clèves and Madame de Luz -- II. Justine and Madame de Luz -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography.
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    Keywords: History
    Abstract: I. Introduction -- 1. The man, Conrad of Prussia -- 2. The manuscript -- 3. Conrad’s division of the De Ente et Essentia -- 4. The transcription -- 5. Unlocated quotations -- 6. The date of composition of Conrad’s commentary -- 7. Good and bad, worthwhile nonetheless -- 8. Other commentaries on the De Ente et Essentia -- II. Conrad’s Commentary -- Prooemium Conradi de Prusya -- III. Comments on Conred’s Commentary -- Conrad’s prooemium -- Conrad’s lectiones -- Opening comment -- Lectio I -- Lectio II -- Lectio III -- Lectio IV -- Lectio V -- Lectio VI -- Lectio VII -- Lectio VIII -- Lectio IX -- Lectio X -- Lectio XI -- Lectio XII -- Lectio XIII -- Lectio XIV -- Lectio XV -- Lectio XVI -- Concluding comment.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy 1
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 1
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I: Representation and Language -- II: A Mentalistic Theory -- III: Rules -- IV: Translation and Theories -- V: Explanation and Truth -- VI: The Protosemantics of Basic Claims -- VII: The Protosemantics of Complex Claims -- VIII: Representation and Man -- Appendix I. Notes -- Appendix II. Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This book is nominally about linguistic representation. But, since it is we who do the representing, it is also about us. And, since it is the universe which we represent, it is also about the universe. In the end, then, this book is about everything, which, since it is a philosophy book, is as it should be. I recognize that it is nowadays unfashionable to write books about every­ thing. Philosophers of language, it will be said, ought to stick to writing about language; philosophers of science, to writing about science; epis­ temologists, to writing about knowing; and so on. The real world, however, perversely refuses to carve itself up so neatly, and, although I recognize that the real w,orld is nowadays also unfashionable, in the end I judged that one might get closer to the truth of various matters by going along with it. So I have done so. lt was Wilfrid Sellars who initially convinced me of the virtues of this way of proceeding. At this point one normally says something like "The debt that this book owes him is immense". I would say it too, were it not to understate the case, From Wilfrid, I learned to think about things. If the upshot of my thinking tends, as it obviously does, to show a general con­ silience with the upshot of his, it is primarily because he is so very good at it - and he had a head start.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy 2
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    Series Statement: 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 69
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 69
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic ; Mathematical logic.
    Abstract: 1/Local Isomorphism and Logical Formula; Logical Restriction Theorem -- 1.1. (k,p)-Isomorphism -- 1.2. (k,p)-Equivalence -- 1.3. Characteristic of a Logical Formula. Relations Between (k,p) -Isomorphism and Logical Formula -- 1.4. Logical Extension and Logical Restriction; Logical Restriction Theorem -- 1.5. Examples of Finitely-Axiomatizable and Non-Finitely-Axiomatizable Multirelations -- 1.6. (k,p)-Interpretability -- 1.7. Homogeneous and Logically Homogeneous Multirelations -- 1.8. Rigid and Logically Rigid Multirelations -- Exercises -- 2/Logical Convergence; Compactness, Omission and Interpretability Theorems -- 2.1. Logical Convergence -- 2.2. Compactness Theorem -- 2.3. Omission Theorem -- 2.4. Interpretability Theorem -- 2.5. Every Injective Logical Operator is Invertible -- Exercise -- 3/Elimination of Quantifiers -- 3.1. Absolute Eliminant -- 3.2. (k,p)-Eliminant -- 3.3. Elimination Algorithms for the Chain of Rational Numbers and the Chain of Natural Numbers -- 3.4. Positive Dense Sum; Elimination of Quantifiers over the Sum of Rational or Real Numbers -- 3.5. Positive Discrete Divisible Sum; Elimination of Quantifiers over the Sum of Natural Numbers -- 3.6. Real Field; Elimination of Quantifiers over the Sum and Product of Algebraic Numbers or Real Numbers -- Exercises -- 4/Extension Theorems -- 4.1. Restrictive Sequence; (k,p)-Isomorphism and (k,p)-Identimorphism -- 4.2. Application to Logical Restriction -- 4.3. Projection Filter -- 4.4. Logical Extension Theorems -- 4.5. Theorem on Common Logical Extensions -- 4.6. Logical Morphism and Logical Embedding -- Exercises -- 5/Theories and Axiom Systems -- 5.1. Theory: Consistency; Intersection of Theories -- 5.1 Axiom System. Class of Models; Union-Theory, Finitely-Axiomatizable Theory, Saturated Theory -- 5.3. Complement of a Theory -- 5.4. Categoricity -- 5.5. Model-Saturated Theory -- Exercises -- 6/Pseudo-Logical Class; Interpretability of Theories; Expansion of a Theory; Axiomatizability -- 6.1. Pseudo-Logical Class -- 6.2. Interpretability of Theories -- 6.3. Canonical Expansion, Semantic Expansion, and Other Expansions -- 6.4. Axiomatizable Multirelations and Theories -- 6.5. Free Expansion -- Exercises -- 7/Ultraproduct -- 7.1. Family of Multirelations, Ultrafilter, Induced Logical Equivalence Class; Ultraproduct and Ultrapower; Maximal Case -- 7.2. Logical Equivalence Implies the Existence of Isomorphic Ultrapowers -- 7.3. Characterization of Logical Classes -- 7.4. Normal Ultraproduct; Definitions and Examples -- 7.5. Normal Ultraproducts and Logical Equivalence -- Exercises -- 8/Forcing -- 8.1. Generic Predicate; System: (+)-Forced and (?)-Forced Formulas -- 8.2. Elementary Properties -- 8.3. Forcing with Constraints -- 8.4. General Relation -- 8.5. Forcing and Deduction; Theory Forced by a Generic Predicate -- Exercises -- 9/Isomorphisms and Equivalences in Relation to the Calculus of Infinitely Long Formulas with Finite Quantifiers -- 9.1. ?-Isomorphism and ?-Equivalence -- 9.2. ?-Isomorphism and ?-Equivalence; Karpian Families -- 9.3. Automorphic Rank of a Multirelation -- 9.4. Multirelations with Denumerable Bases and ?-Isomorphisms -- 9.5. ?-Extension and ?-Interpretability -- 9.6. Infinite Logical Calculi and their Relation to Local Isomorphisms and Equivalences -- Proof of Lemmas Needed to Prove J. Robinson’s Theorem -- Closure of a Relation -- References.
    Abstract: This book is addressed primarily to researchers specializing in mathemat­ ical logic. It may also be of interest to students completing a Masters Degree in mathematics and desiring to embark on research in logic, as well as to teachers at universities and high schools, mathematicians in general, or philosophers wishing to gain a more rigorous conception of deductive reasoning. The material stems from lectures read from 1962 to 1968 at the Faculte des Sciences de Paris and since 1969 at the Universities of Provence and Paris-VI. The only prerequisites demanded of the reader are elementary combinatorial theory and set theory. We lay emphasis on the semantic aspect of logic rather than on syntax; in other words, we are concerned with the connection between formulas and the multirelations, or models, which satisfy them. In this context considerable importance attaches to the theory of relations, which yields a novel approach and algebraization of many concepts of logic. The present two-volume edition considerably widens the scope of the original [French] one-volume edition (1967: Relation, Formule logique, Compacite, Completude). The new Volume 1 (1971: Relation et Formule logique) reproduces the old Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, redivided as follows: Word, formula (Chapter 1), Connection (Chapter 2), Relation, operator (Chapter 3), Free formula (Chapter 4), Logicalformula,denumer­ able-model theorem (L6wenheim-Skolem) (Chapter 5), Completeness theorem (G6del-Herbrand) and Interpolation theorem (Craig-Lyndon) (Chapter 6), Interpretability of relations (Chapter 7).
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    ISBN: 9789401021265
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    Series Statement: Studies in Social Life 18
    Series Statement: Studies of Social Life 18
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    Abstract: I The Altered Framework (1945–1947) -- The Potsdam Expulsions -- Schleswig-Holstein -- 1945: The Year of Collapse -- 1946: First Postwar Elections -- 1947: First Expellee Legislation -- Conclusion -- II New Realities (1948–1950) -- 1948: Expellee Organizations and Elections -- The Expellee Committee (1948–1950) -- 1950: New Expellee and Indigenous Parties -- Conclusion -- III The High Tide of Local Expellee Politics(1951–1954) -- 1951: Confrontation -- 1952: Clues That Point Toward Trends -- The Expellee Committee -- 1953: A Respite -- 1954: Landtag Politics and Patenschaften -- Conclusion -- IV The Disintegration of the BHE (1955–1959) -- 1955–1956: Redefining the Political Environment -- The Expellee Committee (1955–1959) -- Expellee Organizations -- 1957-1958: Emasculation of the BHE -- 1959: Economic Recovery Attained -- Conclusion -- V The Political Effects of Assimilation (1959–1962) -- 1959: Election Ironies -- The Expellee Committee -- 1960: The Decade for Appraisal -- 1961: 1957 Revisited -- 1962: The Political Acknowledgement of Assimilation 106 Conclusion -- VI Epilogue (1963–1970) -- The Demise of the GDP -- The Expellee Committee (1963–1965) -- The Local Elections of 1966 -- The Expellee Committee (1966–1970) -- Continuing Evolution (1967–1970) -- Conclusion -- VII Conclusion -- The Main Periods of the Assimilation Process -- The Return of Stability -- Political Assimilation -- An Appraisal of Assimilation in Schleswig-Holstein.
    Abstract: The expulsions of German nationals from former Reich territories east of the Oder-Neisse Rivers and of German minority communities from various Eastern European nations following the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945 constitute one of the least appreciated consequences of the Second World War. Numbering some ten million people, this group formed nearly a fifth of the total population of the new West German state which emerged in 1949 and presented a grave threat to its early stability. The state (Land) which received the greatest number of these largely destitute expellees in proportion to its indigenous population was Schleswig­ Holstein: in the years between 1945 and 1948 its population doubled. This predominately agrarian area underwent severe strains in accommodating these newcomers, and its handling of the expellee problem provided a bench mark for the evaluation of the assimilation process throughout the Federal Republic. While the tracing of the assimilation of the expellees into the West German polity and society has been voluminously documented l at the national level, much less research into the process has been conducted at the state and local levels. The principal reason for this seems to lie in the belief that the process has been success­ fully completed at these lower levels and may be considered a 1 The classic treatment of the first decade and a half of the assimilation process from the national level is Eugen Lemberg and Friedrich Edding, eds.
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    Series Statement: Introducing Geology 2
    Series Statement: Introducing Geology Series 2
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: 1 Geological History -- 2 The Pre-Cambrian Era -- 3 The Lower Palaeozoic Geosyncline -- 4 The Caledonian Mountain-building -- 5 Devonian Environments -- 6 The Lower Carboniferous Marine Transgression -- 7 The Upper Carboniferous Deltas and Coal Swamps -- 8 The Armorican Mountain-building -- 9 The Permo-Triassic Desert Environment -- 10 The Fluctuating Shelf-seas of the Jurassic -- 11 The Cretaceous Marine Transgression -- 12 Tertiary Cycles of Sedimentation and Igneous Activity -- 13 The Alpine Mountain-Building and the Later Tertiary -- 14 The Quaternary Glaciations.
    Abstract: This book is primarily intended to assist candidates studying geology for the Ordinary Level of G.c.E., and examinations of comparable standard, but it should also be found useful by the" reader requiring a rapid conspectus of the geological history of Britain, and as forming a basis for more advanced work. The scope of the subject matter necessitated a narrow and slippery path be­ tween over-simplification and excessive detail, but the balance adopted is based upon the experience of many years of teaching at all levels, and of examining for the London G.C.E. Board. The maps, combining outcrop dis­ tribution with palaeogeography, presented some difficulty, especially for periods of continuously changing geography, such as the Cretaceous. It was necessary in these cases to make an arbitrary choice of one small part of the period, the geography of which could be illustrated. Candidates are advised not to spend time learning every detail of the outcrop patterns, but to con­ centrate upon the main areas of outcrop. I am indebted to Mrs. Jean Fyffe for the cartographic work.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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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    Series Statement: Plan Europe 2000 Published under the Auspices of the European Culture Foundation, Project 1 Educating Man for the 21st Century 7
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state. ; Education, Higher. ; Education—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I Structural and Educational Developments in the Primary School -- 1. Aims of Education -- 2. Innovations in the Structures of Primary Education -- 3. Progress in Educational Psychology -- 4. Personality, Family and Social Factors of Achievement -- II The Curriculum in the Primary School -- 5. Mathematics -- 6. Social Studies -- 7. Artistic and Creative Activity -- Biographical Notes.
    Abstract: PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Primary education in Europe, as in the United States and other conti­ nents, is passing through a period of profound change, affecting some of the fundamental educational aims at primary school level and teaching structure, content and methods. The purpose of this study is to sketch a broad picture of the Euro­ pean educational scene which may be brought about by the impact of innovation in industrialised countries. We are only too aware of the difficulties inherent in our task. Even when projections and forecasts are firmly rooted in an analysis of existing data, they are liable to be contradicted by the facts. We shall attempt to allow for those alternative situations which may provide the context for the organisation and functioning of primary education. We make no claim to portray the European primary school at the end of the twentieth or at the beginning of the twenty-first century. We shall do no more than analyse existing achievements and experiments based on research in the associated fields of education, psychology and sociology and from this analysis extrapolate a series of forecasts based on objective factors of a social and intellectual nature, offering realistic hypotheses for the future. Our aim is to provide sound guidelines for those who are to build a better future for our children.
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    Series Statement: Treatise on Basic Philosophy, Semantics I: Sense and Reference 1
    Series Statement: Treatise on Basic Philosophy 1
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Semantics ; Science—Philosophy. ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9789401511186
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: I/Cosmochemistry -- Fitness in the Universe: Choices and Necessities -- Galactic Clouds of Organic Molecules -- The Outer Solar System: Perspectives for Exobiology -- Catalytic Reactions in the Solar Nebula: Implications for Interstellar Molecules and Organic Compounds in Meteorites -- II/Paleobiology -- Natural Evidence for Chemical and Early Biological Evolution -- Aspects of the Geologic History of Seawater -- Homeostatic Tendencies of the Earth’s Atmosphere -- Microfossils from the Middle Precambrian McArthur Group, Northern Territory, Australia -- The Development and Diversification of Precambrian Life -- III/Primordial Organic Chemistry -- The Atmosphere of the Primitive Earth and the Prebiotic Synthesis of Amino Acids -- Biomolecules from HCN -- The Prebiotic Synthesis of Oligonucleotides -- The Possible Role of Clays in Prebiotic Peptide Synthesis -- Interactions Between Amino Acids and Nucleotides in the Prebiotic Milieu -- Coacervate Systems and Origin of Life -- Transfer RNA and the Translation Apparatus in the Origin of Life -- IV/Precellular Organization -- A Hypothetic Scheme for Evolution of Probionts -- From Proteinoid Microsphere to Contemporary Cell: Formation of Internucleotide and Peptide Bonds by Proteinoid Particles -- Chemical and Catalytical Properties of Thermal Polymers of Amino Acids (Proteinoids) -- Pre-Enzymic Origin of Metabolic Redox Processes and of the Energy Storage Processes -- Experimental Attempts for the Study of the Origin of Optical Activity on Earth -- Life’s Beginnings — Origin or Evolution? -- V/Early Biochemical Evolution -- On the Chemical Constitution of Cometary Nuclei -- Photochemical Conversions of Lower Aldehydes in Aqueous Solutions and in Fog -- Inferences from Protein and Nucleic Acid Sequences: Early Molecular Evolution, Divergence of Kingdoms and Rates of Change -- On the Possible Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code -- Genetics and the Origin of the Genetic Code -- Origin of the Genetic Code: A Physical-Chemical Model of Primitive Codon Assignments -- The Iron-Sulphur Proteins: Evolution of a Ubiquitous Protein from Model Systems to Higher Organisms -- A New Hypothesis for the Evolution of Biological Electron Transport -- Pathways of Chemical Evolution of Photosynthesis -- Inorganic Types of Fermentation and Anaerobic Respirations in the Evolution of Energy-Yielding Metabolism -- VI/Exobiology -- Test Results on the Viking Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer Experiment -- Automated Life-Detection Experiments for the Viking Mission to Mars -- Organic Contamination Problems in the Viking Molecular Analysis Experiment -- Model Systems for Life Processes on Mars -- An Automatically-Returned Martian Sample by 1985? -- Life on Jupiter? -- The Possibility of Organic Molecule Formation in the Venus Atmosphere -- Planetary Systems and Extraterrestrial Life -- The Origin of Life in a Cosmic Context -- List of Participants -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This publication, in two volumes, includes most of the scientific papers presented at the first meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (lSSOL), held on June 25-28, 1973 in Barcelona, Spain. The first volume contains the invited articles and the second volume the contributed papers, which also appear in the 1974 and 1975 issues, respectively, of the new journal Origins of Life, published by D. Reidel. A relatively large number of meetings on the subject of the origin of life have been held in different places since 1957. In terms of its organization, scope, and number and nationality of participants, the Conference celebrated last year in Barcelona closely followed the three international conferences held earlier in Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1957, Wakulla Springs, U.S.A., 1963, and Pont-a-Mousson, France, 1970. For this reason the first ISSOL meeting was also named the 4th International Conference on the Origin of Life.
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Collection Publiée Sous le Patronage des Centres d’archives-Husserl 54
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Ethics.
    Abstract: Table des Matieres -- L’Argument -- Chapitre I. Essence et Désintéressement -- L’Exposition -- Chapitre II. De l’intentionalité au sentir -- Chapitre III. Sensibilité et proximité -- Chapitre IV. La Substitution -- Chapitre V. Subjectivité et Infini -- Autrement Dit -- Chapitre VI. Au dehors.
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    Series Statement: Problem Solvers 14
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: 1 What is a Stochastic Process? -- 2 Results from Probability Theory -- 2.1 Introduction to probability theory -- 2.2 Bivariate distributions -- 2.3 Multivariate distributions -- 2.4 Probability generating functions -- 2.5 Characteristic functions -- 3 The Random Walk -- 3.1 The unrestricted random walk -- 3.2 Types of stochastic process -- 3.3 The gambler’s ruin -- 3.4 Generalisations of the random-walk model -- 4 Markov Chains -- 4.1 Definitions -- 4.2 Equilibrium distributions -- 4.3 Applications -- 4.4 Classification of the states of a Markov chain -- 5 The Poisson Process -- 6 Markov Chalns with Continuous Time Parameters -- 6.1 The theory -- 6.2 Applications -- 7 Non-Markov Processes in Continuous Time with Discrete State Spaces -- 7.1 Renewal theory -- 7.2 Population processes -- 7.3 Queuing theory -- 8 Diffusion Processes -- Recommendations For Further Reading.
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    Series Statement: Chapman and Hall Mathematics Series
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: 1 The optimization problem -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Problem definition -- 1.3 Optimization in one dimension -- 1.4 Optimization in n dimensions -- 2 Single variable optimization -- 2.1 Review of methods -- 2.2 The Fibonacci search -- 2.3 The Golden Section search -- 2.4 The Algorithm of Davies, Swann, and Campey -- 3 Multi-variable optimization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Search methods -- 3.3 Gradient methods -- 4 Advanced methods -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 General considerations -- 4.3 Advanced search methods -- 4.4 Advanced gradient methods -- 4.5 Minimax methods -- 5 Constrained optimization -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Kuhn-Tucker conditions -- 5.3 Constrained optimization techniques -- 5.4 Direct search methods with constraints -- 5.5 Small step gradient methods -- 5.6 Sequential unconstrained methods -- 5.7 Large step gradient methods -- 5.8 Lagrangian methods -- 5.9 General considerations -- 5.10 Conclusion -- References -- Further reading.
    Abstract: During the last decade the techniques of non-linear optim­ ization have emerged as an important subject for study and research. The increasingly widespread application of optim­ ization has been stimulated by the availability of digital computers, and the necessity of using them in the investigation of large systems. This book is an introduction to non-linear methods of optimization and is suitable for undergraduate and post­ graduate courses in mathematics, the physical and social sciences, and engineering. The first half of the book covers the basic optimization techniques including linear search methods, steepest descent, least squares, and the Newton-Raphson method. These are described in detail, with worked numerical examples, since they form the basis from which advanced methods are derived. Since 1965 advanced methods of unconstrained and constrained optimization have been developed to utilise the computational power of the digital computer. The second half of the book describes fully important algorithms in current use such as variable metric methods for unconstrained problems and penalty function methods for constrained problems. Recent work, much of which has not yet been widely applied, is reviewed and compared with currently popular techniques under a few generic main headings. vi PREFACE Chapter I describes the optimization problem in mathemat­ ical form and defines the terminology used in the remainder of the book. Chapter 2 is concerned with single variable optimization. The main algorithms of both search and approximation methods are developed in detail since they are an essential part of many multi-variable methods.
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    Series Statement: 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 70
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: to the Problems of the Foundations of Mathematics -- 1. Mathematical Domains -- 2. Examples of Mathematical Domains -- 3. Selected Kinds of Relations and Functions -- 4. Logical Analysis of Mathematical Concepts -- 5. Zermelo’s Set Theory -- 6. Set-Theoretical Approach to Relations and Functions -- 7. The Genetic Construction of Natural Numbers -- 8. Expansion of the Concept of Number -- 9. Construction of New Mathematical Domains -- 10. Subdomains, Homomorphisms, Isomorphisms -- 11. Products. Real Numbers -- I. The Classical Logical Calculus -- 1. The Classical Characteristics of the Sentential Connectives -- 2. Tautologies in the Classical Sentential Calculus and Their Applications to Certain Mathematical Considerations -- 3. An Axiomatic Approach to the Sentential Calculus -- 4. The Classical Concept of Quantifier -- 5. The Predicate Calculus in the Traditional Interpretation -- 6. Reduction of Quantifier Rules to Axioms, c.l.c Tautologies True in the Empty Domain -- 7. The Concepts of Consequence and Theory. Applications of the Logical Calculus to the Formalization of Mathematical Theories -- 8. The Logical Functional Calculus L* and Its Applications to the Formalization of Theories with Functions -- 9. Certain Syntactic Properties of the Classical Logical Calculus -- 10. On Definitions -- II. Models of Axiomatic Theories -- 1. The Concept of Satisfaction -- 2. The Concepts of Truth and Model. The Properties of the Set of Sentences True in a Model -- 3. Existence of co-complete Extensions and Denumerable Models -- 4. Some Other Concepts and Results in Model Theory -- 5. Skolem’s Elimination of Quantifiers, Consistency of Compound Theories and Interpolation Theorems -- 6. Definability -- III. Logical Hierarchy of Concepts -- 1. The Concept of Effectiveness in Arithmetic -- 2. Some Properties of Computable Functions 417 -- 3. Effectiveness of Methods of Proof -- 4. Representability of Computable Relations in Arithmetic -- 5. Problems of Decidability -- 6. Logical Hierarchy of Arithmetic Concepts -- Supplement. a Historical Outline -- Index of Symbols -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: Recent years have seen the appearance of many English-language hand­ books of logic and numerous monographs on topical discoveries in the foundations of mathematics. These publications on the foundations of mathematics as a whole are rather difficult for the beginners or refer the reader to other handbooks and various piecemeal contribu­ tions and also sometimes to largely conceived "mathematical fol­ klore" of unpublished results. As distinct from these, the present book is as easy as possible systematic exposition of the now classical results in the foundations of mathematics. Hence the book may be useful especially for those readers who want to have all the proofs carried out in full and all the concepts explained in detail. In this sense the book is self-contained. The reader's ability to guess is not assumed, and the author's ambition was to reduce the use of such words as evident and obvious in proofs to a minimum. This is why the book, it is believed, may be helpful in teaching or learning the foundation of mathematics in those situations in which the student cannot refer to a parallel lecture on the subject. This is also the reason that I do not insert in the book the last results and the most modem and fashionable approaches to the subject, which does not enrich the essential knowledge in founda­ tions but can discourage the beginner by their abstract form. A. G.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: I / The Probability Framework -- II / Classical Statistical Theory -- III / R. A. Fisher: Likelihood and Fiducial Inference -- IV / Decision Theory -- V / Subjective and Logical Approaches -- VI / Comparison of Approaches -- VII / The Language: Syntax -- VIII / Rational Corpora -- IX / Randomness -- X / Probability -- XI / Conditional Probability -- XII / Interpretations of Probability -- XIII / Bayesian Inference -- XIV / The Fiducial Argument -- XV / Confidence Methods -- XVI / Epistemological Considerations -- Appendix / The Mathematical Background.
    Abstract: Everyone knows it is easy to lie with statistics. It is important then to be able to tell a statistical lie from a valid statistical inference. It is a relatively widely accepted commonplace that our scientific knowledge is not certain and incorrigible, but merely probable, subject to refinement, modifi­ cation, and even overthrow. The rankest beginner at a gambling table understands that his decisions must be based on mathematical ex­ pectations - that is, on utilities weighted by probabilities. It is widely held that the same principles apply almost all the time in the game of life. If we turn to philosophers, or to mathematical statisticians, or to probability theorists for criteria of validity in statistical inference, for the general principles that distinguish well grounded from ill grounded generalizations and laws, or for the interpretation of that probability we must, like the gambler, take as our guide in life, we find disagreement, confusion, and frustration. We might be prepared to find disagreements on a philosophical and theoretical level (although we do not find them in the case of deductive logic) but we do not expect, and we may be surprised to find, that these theoretical disagreements lead to differences in the conclusions that are regarded as 'acceptable' in the practice of science and public affairs, and in the conduct of business.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 10
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 10
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. The Problem -- I. Introduction: Problems and Sources -- II. Naming What is -- III. The Semantics of the Logical Constants -- 2. Historical Survey -- IV. From the History of the Logic of Indefinite Propositions -- V. From the History of the Logic of Individual Propositions -- VI. Singular - General - Indefinite -- VII. The Identity Theories of the Copula -- 3. Descent -- VIII. Argument by Analogy -- IX. The Problem of the Logic of Relations and its Connection with the Logic of the Articles -- 4. Ascent -- X. Introduction of Indefinite Propositions by Ekthesis -- XI. Conjunction, Potentiality, and Disjunction -- XII. Summary and Conclusion -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: When the original Dutch version of this book was presented in 1971 to the University of Leiden as a thesis for the Doctorate in philosophy, I was prevented by the academic mores of that university from expressing my sincere thanks to three members of the Philosophical Faculty for their support of and interest in my pursuits. I take the liberty of doing so now, two and a half years later. First and foremost I want to thank Professor G. Nuchelmans warmly for his expert guidance of my research. A number of my most im­ portant sources were brought to my attention by him. During the whole process of composing this book his criticism and encouragement were carried out in a truly academic spirit. He thereby provided working conditions that are a sine qua non for every author who is attempting to approach controversial matters in a scientific manner, conditions which, however, were not easily available at that time. In a later phase I also came into contact with Professors L. M. de Rijk and J. B. Ubbink, with both of whom I had highly stimulating discussions and exchanges of ideas. The present edition contains some entirely new sections, viz. 1-9, IV-29, V-9, V-20, VII-14 (iii), (iv), VII-17 (i), VIII-22, IX-17, IX-19, X-9 and XI-8. Section X-9 was inspired by a remark made by Professor A.
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    Series Statement: 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 62
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: 1. Logic as a Foundation of Teaching -- I Words, Thoughts and Objects -- I Expressions and Their Meanings -- II Statements and Their Parts -- III Objective Counterparts of Expressions -- IV Ambiguity of Expressions and Defects of Meanings -- V Definitions -- VI Questions and Interrogative Sentences -- II Inference -- I Formal Logic and the Consequence Relation -- II Inference and the Conditions of Its Correctness -- III Subjectively Certain Inference -- IV Subjectively Uncertain Inference -- III Methodological Types of Sciences -- I The Division of Sciences into Deductive and Inductive -- II Deductive Sciences -- III The Inductive Sciences -- IV Inductive Sciences and Scientific Laws -- V Statistical Reasoning -- Supplement: Proving and Explaining.
    Abstract: When asked in 1962 on what he was working Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz replied: Several years ago Polish Scientific Publishers suggested that I pre­ pare a new edition of The Logical Foundations of Teaching, which I wrote 1 before 1939 as a contribution to The Encyclopaedia of Education. It was a small booklet covering elementary information about logical semantics and scientific methodology, information which in my opinion was necessary as a foundation of teaching and as an element of the education of any teacher. When I recently set to preparing the new edition, I rewrote practically everything, and a booklet of some 100 pages swelled into a bulky volume almost five times bigger. The issues have remained practically the same, but they are now analysed much more thoroughly and the threshold of difficulty is much higher now. The main stress has been laid on the methods used in the empirical sciences, and within that field, on the theory of measurement and the methods of statistical inference. I am now working on the last chapter of the book, concerned with explanation procedures and theory construction in the empirical sciences. When that book, which I intend to entitle Pragmatic Logic, is com­ pleted I intend to prepare for the press Vol. 2 of my minor writings, 2 Language and Cognition, which will cover some of my post-war pa­ pers.
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Science—Philosophy. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9789401021821
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 5
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 5
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Technology—Philosophy.
    Abstract: On the Concepts of ‘Technology’ and ‘Technological Sciences’ -- Technology as Applied Science -- The Confusion Between Science and Technology in the Standard Philosophies of Science -- The Need for Corroboration. Comments on J. Agassi’s Paper -- Planning for Success. A Reply to J. O. Wisdom -- Rules for Making Discoveries. Reply to J. Agassi -- The Structure of Thinking in Technology -- The Social Character of Technological Problems. Comments on Skolimowski’s Paper -- Technology and Natural Science — A Methodological Investigation -- Scientific Method — A Triad -- Specific Features of Technology in Its Interrelation with Natural Science -- On the Classification of the Technological Sciences -- Instrumentalization of Actions -- A Philosophy of Engineering Design -- The Design Method — A Scientific Approach to Valid Design -- Three-Dimensional Morphology of Systems Engineering -- The Role of Experiments in Applied Science — Letters to the Editor by A. J. S. Pippard, W. A. Tuplin, E. McEwen, and Your Reviewer -- The Role of Apparatus in Cognition and Its Classification -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The highly sophisticated techniques of modern engineering are normally conceived of in practical terms. Corresponding to the instrumental function of technology, they are designed to direct the forces of nature according to human purposes. Yet, as soon as the realm of mere skills is exceeded, the intended useful results can only be achieved through planned and preconceived action processes involving the deliberately considered application of well designed tools and devices. This is to say that in all complex cases theoretical reasoning becomes an indispensable means to accomplish the pragmatic technological aims. Hence the abstracting from the actual concrete function of technology opens the way to concentrate attention on the general conceptual framework involved. If this approach is adopted the relevant knowledge and the procedures applied clearly exhibit a logic of their own. This point of view leads to a methodological and even an epistemological analysis of the theoretical structure and the specific methods of procedure characteristic of modern technology. Investigations of this kind, that can be described as belonging to an ana­ lytical philosophy of technology, form the topic of this anthology. The type of research in question here is closely akin to that of the philosophy of science. But it is an astonishing fact that the commonly accepted and carefully investigated philosophy of science has not yet found its counterpart in an established philosophy of technology.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: Pragmatics as Biology or Culture -- From Animal Communication to Human Speech. An Attempt at a Semiotic Analysis of the Problems of the Origins of Language -- Experiments with Everyday Conversation -- Interviewing and Memory -- Fifty-Two Oppositions Between Scientific and Poetic Communication -- Experimental Issues in Sentence Comprehension : Complexity and Segmentation -- Linguistic Structure and Sentence Production -- Information, Decision, and the Scientist.
    Abstract: 'Human Communication' is a field of interest of enormous breadth, being one which has concerned students of many different disciplines. It spans the imagined 'gap' between the 'arts' and the 'sciences', but it forms no unified academic subject. There is no commonly accepted terminology to cover aU aspects. The eight articles comprising this book have been chosen to illustrate something of the diversity yet, at the same time, to be comprehensible to readers from different academic disciplines. They cannot pretend to cover the whole field! Some attempt has been made to present them in an order which represents a continuity of theme, though this is merely an opinion. Most publications of this type form the proceedings of some sympo­ sium, or conference. In this case, however, there has been no such unifying influence, no collaboration, no discussions. The authors have been drawn from a number of different countries. The first article, by John Marshall and Roger Wales (Great Britain) concerns the pragmatic values of communication, starting by considering bird-song and passing to the infinitely more complex 'meaningful' values of human language and pictures. The 'pragmatic aspect' means the usefulness - what does language or bird song do for humans and birds? What adaptation or survival values does it have? These questions are then considered in relation to brain specialisation for representation of experience and cognition.
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    Series Statement: Tulane Studies in Philosophy 23
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Religion—Philosophy.
    Abstract: A Process View of Causality -- Heraclitus and the Future of Process Philosophy -- The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory and Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism -- Why Whitehead is not a „Process“ Philosopher -- Whitehead’s Doctrine of Eternal Objects and its Interpretations -- Process and Pragmatism -- On De-Mythologizing Whitehead’s Actual Entity.
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    ISBN: 9789401021203
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    Series Statement: Sovietica, Publications and Monographs of the Institute of East-European Studies University of Fribourg / Switzerland 32
    Series Statement: Sovietica 32
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    Keywords: Regional planning ; Political science. ; Ethnology. ; Culture. ; Political science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I: Introduction -- 1. Point of Departure -- 2. Nature of the Work -- 3. Previous Studies -- 4. Preliminary Survey of the Problems -- 5. Aim and General Outline -- I/The Classics -- II: Marx -- III: Engels -- IV: Lenin -- II/Soviet Philosophy -- V: General Conceptions Concerning the Person -- VI: General Principles of a Theory of Freedom -- VII: The Different Types and Aspects of Freedom -- VIII: Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This study seeks to present the theory of freedom as found in one line of the Marxist tradition, that which begins with Marx and Engels and continues through Lenin to contemporary Soviet philosophy. Although the primary goal is simply to describe how freedom is con­ ceived by the thinkers of this tradition, an attempt is also made to ascertain whether or not their views are strongly deterministic, as has often been presumed by Western commentators. is in order regarding the scope of the term 'contemporary A remark Soviet philosophy'. The Soviet stage in Marxist philosophy stretche. s back to the 1917 revolution. However, for the purposes of this study only works published after 1947 were examined, and the vast majority of them date from the 1960's. Apart from the fact that most works of previous periods were not available, bibliographical indications, such as the titles of the articles in Pod znamenem marksizma, did not suggest that the theory of freedom was then a major concern. In fact, even 1947 there was little development of this theme until the upsurge after of works in philosophical anthropology during the last decade. On the other hand, it is not being suggested that the conception of freedom found in recent writings is representative of earlier Soviet philosophy, during the Stalinist 'dead' period or earlier. Only further research could establish that. This work was presented as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, under the direction of Professor J. M.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 12
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 12
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; History ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Logic.
    Abstract: I/Historical Introduction -- 1. The Publication of Medieval Works -- 2. Scholasticism in Italy and Germany -- 3. Scholasticism in France and Spain -- 4. Humanism -- 5. Rudolph Agricola and His Influence -- 6. Petrus Ramus and His Influence -- 7. Seventeenth Century Logic: Eclecticism -- 8. Humanism and Late Scholasticism in Spain -- 9. Other Schools of Logic -- 10. A Note on Terminology -- II/Meaning and Reference -- I. The Nature of Logic -- II. Problems of Language -- II. Supposition Theory -- III. Semantic Paradoxes -- III/Formal Logic. Part One: Unanalyzed Propositions -- I. The Theory of Consequence -- II. Propositional Connectives -- III. An Analysis of the Rules Found in Some Individual Authors -- IV/ Formal Logic. Part Two: The Logic of Analyzed Propositions -- I. The Relationships Between Propositions -- II. Supposition Theory and Quantification -- III. Categorical Syllogisms -- Appendix/Latin Texts -- 1. Primary Sources -- 2. Secondary Sources on the History of Logic 1400–1650 -- Index of names.
    Abstract: Keckermann remarked of the sixteenth century, "never from the begin­ ning of the world was there a period so keen on logic, or in which more books on logic were produced and studies oflogic flourished more abun­ dantly than the period-in which we live. " 1 But despite the great profusion of books to which he refers, and despite the dominant position occupied by logic in the educational system of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven­ teenth centuries, very little work has been done on the logic of the post­ medieval period. The only complete study is that of Risse, whose account, while historically exhaustive, pays little attention to the actual logical 2 doctrines discussed. Otherwise, one can tum to Vasoli for a study of humanism, to Munoz Delgado for scholastic logic in Spain, and to Gilbert and Randall for scientific method, but this still leaves vast areas untouched. In this book I cannot hope to remedy all the deficiencies of previous studies, for to survey the literature alone would take a life-time. As a result I have limited myself in various ways. In the first place, I con­ centrate only on those matters which are of particular interest to me, namely theories of meaning and reference, and formal logic.
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    Series Statement: 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
    Series Statement: 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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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9789401021913
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (221p) , digital
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    Series Statement: 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 63
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 63
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: Semantic Analyses for Dyadic Deontic Logic -- Some Remarks Concerning Many-Valued Propositional Logics -- Conditional Obligation -- Remarks on Interpersonal Utility Theory -- On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Montague Semantics -- Extracting Information from Logical Proofs -- A New Approach to the Logical Theory of Actions and Causality -- Some Basic Concepts of Action -- Some Remarks Concerning Logical and Ontological Theories -- Combined Evidence -- Solution to a Problem Raised by Stig Kanger and a Set Theoretical Statement Equivalent to the Axiom of Choice -- On Characterizing Elementary Logic -- Rules and Derived Rules -- A Program for Pragmatics -- Models -- Remarks on Logic and Probability -- Analytic and Synthetic Arithmetical Statements -- Index of Names -- Tabula Gratulatoria.
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    ISBN: 9789401020916
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (296p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 5
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Physics—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, Series Minor 12
    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor 12
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; History. ; Religion.
    Abstract: I: Early Life -- II. The Civil War -- III. Sheldon during the Interregnum -- IV. The Restoration -- V. Archbishop vs. King I -- VI. Archbishop vs. King Ii -- VII. Sheldon and Parliament -- VIII. Sheldon, Pastor and His People -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: The place of Gilbert Sheldon in seventeenth century history and his influence upon the events of the period have long presented a tantalizing problem. A historian exploring the archives of the time cannot help but be impressed by the ubiquitous appearances of the archbishop. Yet the frequent references too often provide little detail, so that what emerges is a wraith-like picture of the man and a very uncertain account of his activities. As a result it is difficult to know what to think of Sheldon. He has been termed a "Laudian," but Mathew Wren, Laud's loyal assistant and sharer of his imprisonment, was cempletely baffled by the initials "G. Sh." which appeared in a letter sent to him in the early 1650's. Also labeled a staunch Tory and a firm believer in the institution of monarchy, Shelden showed no compunction whatever about lecturing the king on his duties or in boldly epposing the royal wishes when his lectures were ignored. He has been described as a man of "iron character," yet he was invariably soft-spoken and gentle to those in his immediate presence. He is pictured as a ruthless persecutor, but he often offered assistance, material and otherwise, to those who had been his opponents. Supposedly he was avaricious, yet the record suggests that during the Interregnum he impoverished himself to assist needy friends and church acquain­ tances, seme of whem he barely knew.
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, Series Minor 13
    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor 13
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: I. Introduction to the Argument and its History Prior to the 17th and 18th Centuries -- II. The Immortality of the Soul in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- III. The Unity of Consciousness in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- IV. Personal Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- V. The Simplicity Argument and its Possible Role in the History of Idealism.
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    ISBN: 9789401019996
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    Series Statement: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 4
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: One Interpreting Man -- Human Sciences and Hermeneutical Method: Meaningful Action Considered as a Text -- Interpretation and the Sciences of Man -- Change and Permanence: On the Possibility of Understanding History -- Phenomenology and Social Science: An Overview and Appraisal -- Two Evidence and the Ego -- Husserlian Essences Reconsidered -- Reflections on Evidence and Criticism in the Theory of Consciousness -- Towards a Phenomenology of Self-Evidence -- Phenomenology: English and Continental -- Reflection on the Ego -- The Self-Consciousness in Self-Activity -- Three Science, Mathematics, and Logic -- Scientific Discovery: Logical, Psychological, or Hermeneutical? -- On the Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics -- Edmund Husserl and the Reform of Logic -- Logic and Mathematics in Husserl’s Formal and Transcendental Logic -- Four Emotions, Art, and Existence -- Anger and Interpersonal Communication -- The Anatomy of Anger -- A Phenomenology of Emotions: Anger -- Cinema Space -- Variations on the Real World -- Being-in-the-World and Ethical Language -- Existence and Consciousness.
    Abstract: Contrary to popular belief, professional philosophers want and need to be heard. Lacking a large and general public in this country, they turn to audiences of peers and rivals. But these audiences are found either in giant, unfocused professional bodies, or in restrictive groups of specialists. In this respect, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy can claim a unique role among academic organizations in this country. Now in its tenth year, it has become one of the most important forums in America for the open exchange of ideas. The Society has grown considerably since its founding, and its annual meetings attract scholars in philosophy and other disciplines from across the country and abroad. But these meetings differ markedly from others: too large to be dominated by any single clique or doctrine, they are at the same time small enough to encourage lively discussion within its organized sessions and not just in the corridors outside. The Society derives its focus from the two closely allied philosophical "directions" indicated in its title. Yet from the beginning it has included in its meetings a sizeable number of contributors who are not identified with or even sympathetic to these directions, but are at least willing to engage in a dialogue with those who are. Furthermore, the Society has accomplished to a limited degree something rare indeed in American intellectual life: an interdisciplinary ex- 2 INTRODUCTION change.
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: 1. What is ultrasound? -- The discovery of animal ultrasound -- The properties of ultrasound -- 2. Methods of detection and analysis -- Ultrasonic microphones -- Cathode-ray oscilloscopes -- Tape-recording and analysis -- Bat detectors -- 3. Bats -- The biology of bats -- The echo-location signals of bats -- Short-pulse echo-location in Megachiroptera -- Frequency sweep pulses in Microchiroptera -- Constant frequencies in Microchiroptera -- Mixed signals in Microchiroptera -- Sound production and emission in Microchiroptera -- Frequency-sweep bats -- Constant frequency bats -- Nose-leaves -- Hearing in the Microchiroptera -- Other senses and social use of ultrasound in Microchiroptera -- 4. Countermeasures by insects -- Noctuidae -- The evasive behaviour of noctuid moths -- Acoustic sensitivity of the tympanic organ -- Directionality -- Central co-ordination -- Arctiidae, Notodontidae and Ctenuchidae -- Pyralididae -- Sphingidae -- Geometridae -- Neuroptera -- Evolution -- 5. The songs of bush crickets (Tettigoniidae) -- The physics of strigilation in general -- The mechanism of sound production in tettigoniids -- The ultrasonic songs of tettigoniids -- The acoustic behaviour of tettigoniids -- The ability of tettigoniids to hear ultrasonic sounds -- Some further considerations -- 6. Other insects -- Gryllidae, crickets -- Gryllotalpidae, mole crickets -- Acrididae, grasshoppers and locusts -- Insects of other groups -- 7. Ultrasound in rodents -- The ultrasonic calls of infant rodents -- The physical characteristics of the calls -- The motivation for the emission of ultrasonic calls by infant rodents -- The role of infant distress calls in adult-young relationships -- Ultrasound and aggressive behaviour -- Rats -- Other myomorph rodents -- Social significance -- Ultrasound and mating behaviour -- Mice -- Rats -- Other myomorph rodents -- Social significance -- Other situations involving ultrasound emission in rodents -- The mechanism of ultrasound production in rodents -- The ability of rodents to hear high frequency sounds -- 8. Other vertebrate groups -- Birds -- Cetacea -- The sounds of odontocetes -- The site of sound production -- The ear of odontocetes -- Hearing in odontocetes -- Evidence for echo-location in odontocetes -- Other marine mammals -- Insectivora -- 9. Review and speculations -- Appendix Some formulae summarizing the rules of echo-location -- References -- Indexes.
    Abstract: In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the understanding of communication between animals and this is perhaps especially true of bio-acoustics. In the last 35 years a completely new branch of bio­ acoustics, involving ultrasounds, has been made possible by technical developments that now allow these inaudible sounds to be detected and studied. This subject has a personal fascination for the authors, perhaps because of the novelty of 'listening in' to these previously unknown sig­ nals, perhaps because of the wide variety of ways in which different animals use them. Many studies of different aspects of animal ultrasound have now been published and a review of them all seems to be timely. Ultrasound is is biologically arbitrary; other animals defined in human terms and may produce similar signals at lower frequencies for similar purposes. This book attempts to be comprehensive but the limits of the subject are rather difficult to define. It should be read in conjunction with other books on audible bio-acoustics. Each chapter has been written and may be read as a separate entity, although there is considerable cross-referencing. Chapters 1 and 2 form a common introduction and may help in understanding the later sections. The Appendix is not essential but is included for those who may be interested in the quanti­ tative aspects of the echo-location phenomena described in Chapters 3 and 8.
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    ISBN: 9789401021289
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (413p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 14
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9789401021401
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 20
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 15
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    Abstract: 1 Atomic and molecular orbitals -- 2 Aromaticity -- 3 The stereochemical requirements of concerted pericyclic reactions -- 4 The concept of the conservation of orbital symmetry -- 5 Alternative rationalizations-the aromaticity of pericyclic transition states -- 6 The organic chemistry of pericyclic reactions -- Appendix I Determinants -- Appendix II The solution of secular equations -- Appendix III HMO treatment of the cyclopropenyl system -- Appendix IV Answers to problems -- References.
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    Series Statement: Foundations of Language, Supplementary Series 20
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Arts.
    Abstract: 1. Criticism and the Concepts of Appraisal -- 2. Critical Non-Appraisive Discourse -- 3. Sources of the Appraisive Vocabulary -- 4. Characterization and Commendation -- 5. Linguistic and Appraisive Communities -- 6. The Nature of Characterization -- 7. Characterization and Characterisms -- 8. Critics and Criticism -- Preliminary: Critical Exclusions -- 0.0 Paracritical and Noncritical Discourse -- I/The Characterization of the Artist -- — Part I -- 1.0 Creative Powers -- 2.0 Creative Response -- Conclusion — Part I -- II/The Characterization of Art -- — Part II -- 3.0 Order -- 4.0 Elemental Quality -- 5.0 Presentation -- 6.0 Essential Characterization -- 7.0 Style and Totality -- 8.0 Contextual Characterization and Generalization -- III/Commendation -- — Part III -- 9.0 General and Ultimate Appraisal -- Critical Source Book -- Preliminary/Critical Exclusions -- I/The Characterization of the Artist -- II/The Characterization of Art -- III/Commendation.
    Abstract: Tbis inquiry may be thought of as a sequel to The Concepts of Value and as an extension of the brief core-vocabulary of aesthetic concepts found in one of the appendices to it. In terms of sheer numbers, most of the value concepts of our language are to be found in the area of human relations and of the aesthetic. There are also other value vocabularies, shorter but equally important, for example, the cognitive and logical. These and other objects of pbilosopbical study (for example, the question of "other minds") deserve the kind of empirical survey that has been made of moral and aesthetic notions, if only to test a priori approaches to them. In the present studyan even more determined empirical approach than that adopted for the first has been found necessary. Once the moral or human value vocabulary has been identified, sentential contexts for the use of the terms readily come to mind. In a study of the language of criticism, however, the vocabulary has first to be sought in the utterances of critics themselves and quoted in sufficient context to make their critical intentions clear. The outcome is that the present study is of great length, about half of it being quotations from critics. The rule adopted for arriving at tbis length go on collecting quotations as long as new types of appraisal came was to to light.
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 7-3
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: III: Money and Other Assets Introductory Note -- 33. Money and the Theory of Assets (1938) -- 34. Assets, Prices and Monetary Theory (1938) -- 35. Lack of Confidence (1941) -- 36. Wicksell’s Two Interest Rates (1941) -- 37. Role of Liquidity under Complete and Incomplete Information (1949) -- 38. The Rationale of the Demand for Money and of ‘Money Illusion’ (1950) -- 39. Optimal Investment of a Firm (1950) -- 40. Monnaie et Liquidité dans les Modèles macroéconomiques et microéconomiques (1954) -- IV: Economic Measurements Introductory Note -- 41. A Note on the Period of Production (1934) -- 42. Measurements in the Capital Market (1935/6) -- 43. An Empirical Analysis of the Laws of Distribution (1936) -- 44. Personal and Collective Budget Functions (1939) -- 45. Economic Interdependence and Statistical Analysis (1942) -- 46. Money Illusion and Demand Analysis (1943) -- 47. Random Simultaneous Equations and the Theory of Production (1944) -- 48. Economic Structure, Path, Policy, and Prediction (1947) -- 49. Economic Measurements for Policy and Prediction (1953) -- V: Contributions to the Logic of Economics Introductory Note -- 50. Identity and Stability in Economics: A Survey (1942) -- 51. A Cross Section of Business Cycle Discussion: A Review of ‘Readings’ (1945) -- 52. Comment on Mitchell (1951) -- 53. Wladimir Woytinsky and Economic Theory (1962) -- 54. On Econometric Tools (1969) -- 55. Interdisciplinary Discussions on Mathematics in Behavioral Sciences (1972) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    ISBN: 9789401019798
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    Series Statement: International Scholars Forum, A Series of Books by American Scholars 14
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Introduction -- II. Seven Axes of Bias -- A. General Hypotheses -- B. Hypotheses Regarding Specific Biases -- III. Bias in the Arts and the Sciences -- A. The Continuum of Theoretical Behavior -- B. The Arts: Painting -- C. History -- D. The Sciences -- IV. Four Typical Syndromes -- A. The Medieval Syndrome -- B. The Renaissance Syndrome -- C. The Enlightenment Syndrome -- D. The Romantic Syndrome -- V. The Romantic Syndrome: Poetry -- A. Soft-Focus -- B. Inner-Bias -- C. Disorder-and Dynamic-Biases -- D. Continuity-Bias -- E. Other-World Bias -- VI. Contrasts Between the Romantic Syndrome and the Enlightenment Syndrome: Metaphysics -- A. Schopenhauer -- B. Hume -- C. Kant -- D. Hegel -- VII. Contrasts Between the Romantic Syndrome and The Enlightenment Syndrome: Political Theory -- A. Continuity/Discreteness Axis -- B. Order/Disorder Axis -- C. Static/Dynamic Axis -- D. The Enlightenment and Romantic Syndromes in Political Theory -- VIII. Some Applications and Some Limitations -- A. Applications -- B. Limitations -- Supplementary Notes.
    Abstract: In this age of specialism philosophers, like other specialists, tend to take in each other's washing. Here, perhaps imprudently, I attempt to break out of this pattern. Though I am by profes­ sion a philosopher, I am addressing primarily, not other philo­ sophers, but cultural anthropologists, sociologists, historians of ideas, and literary and art critics. Thus, while there are chapters in this book on metaphysics and political theory, I do not ask, "Is the doctrine in question true?" - which is the kind of ques­ tion a philosopher might be expected to raise. Instead I ask, "What can we learn from this doctrine about the personality structure of the individual who framed it and about the charac­ teristic drives of the society in which he lived?" My reasons for asking and for trying to answer this kind of question, instead of the usual philosophical question, are as follows: Though the material products of culture' and the overt behavior patterns of societies have long been objects of scientific study, the most characteristic products of high cultures - artistic productions like poems and paintings and' theoretical structures like metaphysical and scientific theory - have not as readily yielded to exact description and analysis. Not, of course, that there is not a very extensive discussion of these matters. But most of it is carried on in terms that are regrettably vague.
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Collection Publiée Sous Le Patronage Des Centres D’Archives-Husserl 60
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H. L. Van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives 60
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: I. The World of Pure Experience -- 1. The fundamental tenets of Radical Empiricism -- 2. The absolute sphere of pure experience -- 3. A comparison with Bergson -- II. Sensation, Perception, Conception -- 1. Knowledge by acquaintance and “knowledge about” -- 2. The recognition of sameness -- 3. The fringe structure of the stream of consciousness -- 4. The complementarity of perception and conception -- 5. Comparison between Husserl’s epoché and James’s return to pure experience -- III. The Genesis of Space and Time -- 1. The pre-reflective givenness of spatiality -- 2. The elaboration of spatial coordinates -- 3. Husserl’s theory of horizons and James’s fringes -- 4. The temporal structure of the stream of consciousness -- 5. The theory of the specious present -- 6. Primary and secondary remembrance -- 7. Husserl’s analysis of the now-phase -- 8. Active and passive genesis -- IV. The Structure of the Self: A Theory of Personal Identity -- 1. A functional view of consciousness -- 2. The empirical self -- 3. The pure ego -- 4. Husserl’s distinction between the human ego and the pure phenomenological ego -- 5. The auto-constitution of the ego in temporality -- 6. The ambiguous situation of the body -- V. Intersubjectivity -- 1. Two inadequate solutions to the impasse of solipsism -- 2. Reference to a common spatial horizon -- 3. The problem of solipsism in the context of transcendental subjectivity -- 4. The coordination of alien spatial perspectives through imaginative variation -- VI. The Thing and its Relations: A Theory of the Constitution of the Physical World -- 1. The positing of thing-patterns within the stream of consciousness -- 2. The sense of reality -- 3. The various sub-universes of reality -- 4. The region of the “thing” as a guiding clue for phenomenological inquiry -- 5. The return to the concrete fullness of the life-world -- VII. Attention and Freedom -- 1. The correlation between the focus-fringe structure of the object and the subjective modalities of attention and inattention -- 2. James’s dependence upon the “reflex-arc” theory of human activity -- 3. The relationship between attention and freedom -- 4. Husserl’s study of attention as an index of intentionality -- 5. The spontaneity of the ego’s glance -- 6. James’s pragmatic justification of the possibility of freedom -- VIII. The Pragmatic Theory of Truth -- 1. Pragmatism as a method and as a genetic theory of truth -- 2. Four different types of truth and of verification -- 3. Husserl’s definition of truth as the ideal adequation between meaning-intention and meaning fulfillment -- 4. The retrogression from the self-evidence of judgment to the original founding evidences of the life-world -- Conclusion — Action: the Final Synthesis.
    Abstract: " ... a universe unfinished, with doors and windows open to possibilities uncontrollable in advance." 1 A possibility which William James would certainly not have envisaged is a phenomenological reading of his philosophy. Given James's personality, one can easily imagine the explosive commen­ tary he would make on any attempt to situate his deliberately unsystematic writings within anyone philosophical mainstream. Yet, in recent years, the most fruitful scholarship on William James has resulted from a confrontation between his philosophy and the phe­ nomenology of Husserl. The very unlikelihood of such a comparison renders all the more fascinating the remarkable convergence of perspectives that comes to light when the fundamental projects of James and HusserI are juxtaposed. At first view, nothing could be more alien to the pragmatic mentality with its constant mistrust of any global system than a philosophy whose basic drive is to discover absolute knowledge and whose goal is to establish itself as a certain and universal science.
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    ISBN: 9789401020091
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Golden, Richard M. [Rezension von: Perry, Elisabeth Israels, From Theology to History: French Religious Controversy and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes] 1977
    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas 67
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    Abstract: One: French Religious Controversy and the Argument from History, 1671 to 1691 -- One: The Context of the Debate -- Two: The Sources of Argument -- Three: The Use of History: Ideal and Reality -- Two: The Historical Argument -- Four: The Reformation Defined -- Five: The Reformers in Word and Deed -- Six: A House Divided, 1560–1598 -- Seven: Justification by History -- Appendices -- List of References -- Appendix One: Vitae of the Controversialists -- Appendix Two: The Historical Controversy in the Eighteenth Century -- List of Abbreviations.
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I. Two-Person Games -- Prisoner’s Dilemma — Recollections and Observations -- Structural Properties and Resolutions of the Prisoners’ Dilemma Game -- On 2×2 Games and Braithwaite’s Arbitration Scheme -- Design and Conduct of Metagame Theoretic Experiments -- Testing Nash’s Solution of the Cooperative Game -- II. N-Person Games -- Test of the Bargaining Set and Kernel Models in Three-person Games -- Test of the Kernel and Two Bargaining Set Models in Four- and Five-person Games -- A Shapley Value for Cooperative Games with Quarrelling -- Coalitions and Payoffs in Three-person Supergames under Multiple-trial Agreements -- The Application of Compromise Solutions to Reporting Games -- ‘General’ Metagames: An Extension of the Metagame Concept.
    Abstract: Game theory could be formally defined as a theory of rational decision in conflict situations. Models of such situations, as they are conceived in game theory, involve (1) a set of decision makers, called players; (2) a set of strategies available to each player; (3) a set of outcomes, each of which is a result of particular choices of strategies made by the players on a given play of the game; and (4) a set of payoffs accorded to each player in each of the possible outcomes. It is assumed that each player is 'individually rational', in the sense that his preference ordering of the outcomes is determined by the order of magnitudes of his (and only his) associated payoffs. Further, a player is rational in the sense that he assumes that every other player is rational in the above sense. The rational player utilizes knowledge of the other players' payoffs in guiding his choice of strategy, because it gives him information about how the other players' choices are guided. Since, in general, the orders of magnitude of the payoffs that accrue to the several players in the several outcomes do not coincide, a game of strategy is a model of a situation involving conflicts of interests.
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 1
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I. Objective Theory of Inductive Behaviour -- Elements of an Objective Theory of Inductive Behaviour -- On the Problem of Vagueness in the Social Sciences -- Notes On Etiality, the Adaptation Criterion, and the ‘Inference-Decision’ Problem -- II. Problems of Inference -- Comparison of Inference Philosophies -- On the Logic of Tests of Significance with Special Reference to Testing the Significance of Poisson-Distributed Observations -- III. Probability, Information and Utility -- Probability and Utility — Dual Concepts in Decision Theory -- Entropy and Utility -- Entropy, Gravity and Utility in Transportation Modelling -- IV. Semantic Information -- Prior and Posterior Probabilities and Semantic Information -- Remarks on Semantic Information -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Under the title 'Information, Inference and Decision' this volume in the Theory and Decision Library presents some papers on issues from the borderland of statistical inference philosophy and epistemology, written by statisticians and decision theorists who belonged or are allied to the former Saarbriicken school of statistical decision theory. In the first part I make an attempt to outline an objective theory of inductive behaviour, on the basis of R. A. Fisher's statistical inference philosophy, on the one hand, and R. Carnap's inductive logic, on the other. A special problem arising in the context of the new theory, viz., the problem of vagueness of concepts (in particular in the social sciences) is treated separately by H. Skala and myself. B. Leiner has contributed some biographical and bibliographical notes on the objective theory of inductive behaviour. Part II is concerned with inference philosophy. D. A. S. Fraser, the founder of structural inference theory, characterizes and compares some inference philosophies, and discusses his own and the arguments of the critics of his structural theory. In my opinion, Fraser's structural infer­ ence theory is suited to complete Fisher's inference philosophy in some essential points, if not to replace it. An interesting task for future re­ search work is to establish the connection between Fraser's theory and Carnap's ideas in the framework of an objective theory of inductive behaviour.
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 73
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    Abstract: The Instrument -- Seignelay and the Colbertian Legacy -- Pontchartrain’s First Years 1691–1693 -- The Crisis of the Main Fleet and the Shift to the Guerre de Course 1694–1697 -- Conclusion -- Appendices.
    Abstract: The French navy that fought in the Nine Years War was essentially Colbert's creation. Earlier in the century Richelieu had given France the beginnings of a navy: ships, ports, a corps of officers and an administra­ tive structure. But most of his work was undone by neglect in the years after his death, and the task of making France a maritime power had to begin again under Louis XIV. Colbert's efforts to build a navy were distinguished by the same stubborn energy that he brought to all his other tasks. Behind his desire for naval might lay his vision of France as the first commercial power in Europe, for he saw clearly that mercantile preponderance could never be achieved without the backing of a strong fleet of warships. Trade would follow the flag, as he believed it had for his envied models and perpetual rivals, the Dutch. Soon after Louis XIV's assumption of power, Colbert set about the enOImOUS labour of resurrecting the navy founded by Richelieu; he soon found that the task was really one of creation, virtually ex nihilo. Ships or built, sailors recruited, captains enticed home from were purchased service under foreign flags, bases planned and constructed, an adminis­ trative system established.
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    Series Statement: Publications of the Research Group for European Migration Problems
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Emigration and immigration. ; Sociology. ; Human geography.
    Abstract: I. Introduction -- II. Defining Return Migration -- III. The “Laws” of Return Migration -- IV. Types of Return Migration -- V. Success or Failure: the Motives for Return Migration -- VI. Readjustment Problems of Returned Migrants -- VII. Some Influences of Returnees on Their Home Country -- VIII. Techniques in Return Migration Research -- IX. The Direction of Future Research in Return Migration.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 8
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 8
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    Abstract: §0. Translation and Reference Conventions -- §1. Introduction -- §2. St. Anselm as a Logician -- §3. Logical Frame of Reference -- §4. Basic Presuppositions -- §5. Summary of De Grammatico -- §6. De Grammatico: Text and Translation -- §7. Commentary.
    Abstract: The intent of the present work is chiefly the presentation of a running commentary, preponderantly historical in complexion, on the detail of the text of St. Anselm's dialogue De Grammatico. At the same time the making intelligible of that text has demanded the concurrent proffering of logical elucidations. The framework adopted for the latter is the Ontology of S. Lesniewski. The unsuitability of other current systems of logic for the analysis of medieval doctrines has been suggested in HLM I. Hereunder the line of analyses proposed in HDG (an introduc­ tory study of De Grammatico) will for the most part be maintained, with only a few modifications. Changes which further study might demand would in any case involve not so much an abrogation of the HDG ver­ sions, but rather certain complications of detail on the lines indicated in HLM, HEE, and Hoi. Readers who happen to be out of sympathy either with modem logic as a whole, or with the Lesniewskian systems in particular, may be assured that the historical thread of the commentary remains for the most part unaffected by issues connected with such logics. Much of the historical material contained in the commentary consists of quotations from the logical works of Boethius. Some of that material may at first sight appear prosaic and tedious.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Philosophy, Ancient.
    Abstract: Book A -- Book B -- Book ? -- Book ? -- Book E -- Book Z -- Book H -- Book ? -- Book I -- Book K -- Book A -- Book B -- Book ? -- Book ? -- Book E -- Book Z -- Book H -- Book ? -- Book I -- Book K -- English-Greek -- Greek-English.
    Abstract: The principles used in the translation of the Ethics are the same as those in the translations of the Physics and the Metaphysics, and their main function is to help the reader get Aristotle's meaning as accurately as possible. Briefly, they are principles of terminology and of thought, some of which will be repeated here. English terms common to all three translations have the same mean­ ings, with a few exceptions, and many terms proper to ethics are added. Many of the terms in the Glossary are defined or are made known dia­ lectically or in some other way. For the term 1tpOUiPEcrt~ the term 'inten­ tion' or the expression 'deliberate choice' will be used instead of the term 'choice', but the definition will be the same as that given in the Physics and the Metaphysics. Difficulties arise from some allied terms or terms close in meaning, e. g. , the terms UUAOC;, KUKOC;, ~OXeT\PO~, and 1tovT\p0C;, for the exact differences of their meanings are not ascertainable from the extant works. Each of these terms, however, seems to be used consistently, and we shall assume such consistency. The choice of the corresponding English terms can only be suggested by the usage of the Greek terms and by induction.
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    Series Statement: Publications of the Research Group for European Migration Problems 19
    Series Statement: Research Group for European Migration Problems 19
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    Abstract: I: Introduction -- Pioneer Settlement in Brazil -- The Focus of the Investigation -- Population Increases in Paraná -- Migration into West Paraná -- of the Long-lot -- The Founding of Toledo -- The Position of Toledo -- II: Settlers and Their Farms -- Choice of Settlers -- Individual Isolated Farm Type: Italian Examples -- Individual Isolated Farm Type: A German Example -- Individual Isolated Farm Type: Japanese Examples -- Group Settlement Farm Type: A German Immigrant Example -- Conclusion -- III: Settlement Form and Structure in Toledo -- Unplanned Settlement -- Planned Settlement -- Comparison of Square and Long-lot Settlement Forms -- The Case of Toledo -- Conclusion -- IV: Settlement Size in Toledo: I -- Data Gathering -- Sampling -- The Classification -- Trends of Ownership Patterns -- Stages of Settlement -- Conclusion -- V: Settlement Size in Toledo: II -- Alternatives -- Objectives -- Problems Related to Small Farm Size -- Problems Related to Large Farm Size -- Steps to Establish the Medium-sized Farm -- Conclusion -- VI: Settlement Function: Economic Life in Toledo -- Agricultural Equipment -- Agricultural Economy: Commercial Hogs -- Agricultural Processing Industries -- Field Systems: South Brazil -- Field Systems: Toledo -- Agricultural Assistance -- Cooperatives -- Conclusion -- VII: CONCLUSIONS -- Position of the Colonization Project -- Selection of Settlers -- Land Titling -- Settlement Morphology -- Settlement Size -- Settlement Function: Vertical Integration and Regional Settlement Development.
    Abstract: In the period since the end of world War II numerous develop­ ing countries have employed colonization, or planned pioneer settlement, as one method of building a more reliable and bal­ anced economy. It is felt that the traditional, single-sided sys­ tems of farm ownership and production with their latifundium and minifundium holdings will gradually and peacefully become less prominent as better settlement systems are introduced and extended. Marked increases in population pressure, large tracts of unused or underused land, and modern improvements in set­ tlement planning are among other compelling reasons for star­ ting colonization programs. Of all the areas in the world, the continent of South America probably has the widest variety of planned pioneer settlements as well as the most sizeable programs. Brazil, the largest country on the continent, is actively engaged in populating the vast, emp­ ty spaces of its interior, and provides excellent opportunities for the scholarly investigation of new frontier settlement types. In addition to the academic discussion of the origin and develop­ ment of these expressions of man's expansion into marginal ar­ eas, the critical examination of relatively new attempts at land settlement is a useful thing because what is to be learned from such studies may be directly applicable to other pioneer zones and, moreover, may be of vital significance to overall economic improvement on the continent. In this monograph, my student, K. Muller, analyzes the South Brazilian frontier colony of Toledo, Parana, founded in 1946.
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    Series Statement: European Demographic Monographs 4
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    Keywords: Law ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; International law. ; Comparative law.
    Abstract: Foreword -- 1 A Preliminary Summary -- New Rural Settling -- Emigration -- Questions -- Notes -- 2 General Finnish Population and Settlement Characteristics, 1946–1969 -- Changes in Population Numbers, 1946–1969 -- Changes in Population Distribution, 1946–1969 -- Regions and Zones of Settlement -- Notes -- 3 Elements of the Finnish Process of Colonizing -- Administration -- Selection of Settlers -- Geographical Form -- Timing of Actions -- Costs -- Notes -- 4 Northern Finnish Post-War Colonizing -- The Lapland Colonies in General -- Pasmajärven Colony -- Valijoen Colony -- Kapustavuoman Colony -- Lisma-aavan Colony -- Urriaavan Colony -- General Retrospection -- Notes -- 5 National and Northern Finnish Population Changes and Migrations, 1969–1972 -- National Population Trends -- National Migrations -- Northern Finland, Numbers -- Distributional Changes -- Notes.
    Abstract: As the world's population increases, where will it live? Surely many will end up in cities for a recent United Nations' report anticipates that the globe's urban people will increase from 1. 33 billion in 1970 to 3. 09 billion in the year 2000. In the same period, however, the expectation is that rural population will increase from 2. 25 billion to 3. 02 billion. Of course the latter will be unevenly distributed; 91 per cent are likely to be in the less developed regions of the world while the rural folks of the more developed areas are expected to decline from 335 million to 255 million by 2000 A. D. No matter where, the major part of the increasing rural population probably will go to areas already thinly to densely settled. But not all. Even in parts of the more developed nations and for sure in many of the less developed countries one may expect significant numbers of people to move to what is now uninhabited land. Why? Because this is the nature of people and of nations. Research on the subject discloses that new rural settling is not a limited action that is restricted are ally or in time. Rather it is a natural and continuing process that evidences variety in a nation's desires; these may be expressed directly or indirectly by national governments through sponsored action or simply by permissiveness.
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 8
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: The Value of Studying Subjective Evaluations of Probability -- The True Subjective Probability Problem -- Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness -- The Psychological Concept of Subjective Probability: A Measurement-Theoretic View -- Are Subjective Probabilities Probabilities? -- On the Generalizability of Experimental Results -- Statistical Analysis: Theory Versus Practice -- A Selected Bibliography -- Author Index.
    Abstract: 1. BACKGROUND The last twenty-five years have seen a large amount of psychological research in the area of behavioral decision theory. It followed the major breakthrough of decision theory that came with von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944. The key concepts are probability as a measure of uncertainty and utility as a measure of value and risk. The theory prescribes, given some behavioral axioms, that alternatives should be ranked in accordance with their expected utilities. Psychologists became interested in studying how people's decision behavior agreed with what was prescribed by the theory. Three broad areas for research developed, i. e. , research relating to each of the two concepts of probability and utility, and research relating to the interaction of the two in decision stituations. The papers in this book have been selected to illustrate various aspects of how the concept of probability has been used in psychological ex­ perimentation. The early experiments were generated, as mentioned above, by an interest among psychologists to see how people evaluate uncertainty and quantify it in probabilistic terms. Many of these experiments set out to evaluate subjects' estimates of relative frequencies; these were situations where one had access to 'objective' answers. In the 1960's psychologists changed the focus of their studies to how people revise probabilistic judgments when they receive new information. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the cognitive processes by which people express their judgment in probabilistic terms.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I. General Methodology -- A New Epitheoretical Analysis of Social Theories; A Reconstruction of their Background Knowledge including a Model of Statistical Decision Theory -- Theories and Phenomena -- Partial Interpretation and Microeconomics -- The Foundation of Science on Cognitive Mini-Models, with Applications to the German Methodenstreit and the Advent of Econometrics -- II. Methods for Laying the Foundations of Social Systems and Social Structures -- Systems of Social Exchange -- The Concept of Social Structure -- Societies and Social Decision Functions -- Honing Occam’s Razor: A General System Theory Perspective on Social Science Methodology -- III. Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Social Laws and Forecasts -- Toward Fuzzy Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences -- Evolutionary Laws in the Social Sciences -- Methodological Analysis of Imprecision in the Assessment of Personal Probabilities -- The Necessity, Sufficiency and Desirability of Experts as Value Forecasters -- Rational Choice Models and Self-Fulfilling and Self-Defeating Prophecies -- IV. Methodology of Statistics and Hypothesis Testing -- Statistical Probabilities: Single Case Propensities vs. Long-Run Frequencies -- Variety of Objects as a Parameter for Experimentation: An Extension of Carnap’s Inductive Logic -- The Strategic Combination Argument -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Philosophy of Science deals with the problem, 'What is science?' It seems that the answer to this question can only be found if we have an answer to the question, 'How does science function?' Thus, the study of the methodology of social sciences is a prominent factor in any analysis of these sciences. The history of philosophy shows clearly that the answer to the question, 'How does science function?' was the conditio sine qua non of any kind of philosophy of science, epistemology and even of logic. Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, Russell, to mention a few classical authors, clearly emphasized the primacy of methodology of science for any kind of philosophy of science. One may even state that analyses of the presup­ positions, the foundations, the aims, goals and purposes of science are nothing else than analyses of their general and specific formal, as well as practical and empirical methods. Thus, the whole program of any phi­ losophy of science is dependent on the analysis of the methods of sciences and the establishment of their criteria. If the study of scientific method is the predominant factor in the philosophy of science, then all the other problems will depend on the outcome of such a study. For example, the old question of a possible unity of all social sciences will be brought to a solution by the study of the presuppositions, the methods, as well as of the criteria germane to all social sciences.
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Collection Publiée Sous Le Patronage des Centres d’Archives-Husserl 13
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H. L. Van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives 13
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: I: From There to Being -- I. Being and Time -- II. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics -- III. The Essence of Ground -- IV. What is Metaphysics? -- II: Reversal -- I. On the Essence of Truth -- II. The Self-assertion of the German University -- III. Introduction to Metaphysics -- IV: From Being to There -- Section A. The De-volution of Thought 299 -- I. Plato -- II. Aristotle -- III. Descartes -- IV. Hegel -- V. Nietzsche -- VI. Logic -- VII. Humanism -- VIII. Transition: Rilke -- Section B. The Re-trieve of Thought -- I. The Origin of a Work of Art, Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry -- II. The Time of World-as-Picture -- III. “As when upon a day of rest…” -- IV. Nietzsche’s Word “God is dead” -- V. “Homecoming,” “Recollection” -- VI. What is Metaphysics: Epilogue -- VII. ’’??????? -- VIII. ????? -- IX. Towards an Analysis of Release, Nihilism -- X. The Saying of Anaximander -- XI. Whereunto the Poet? -- XII. Letter on Humanism -- XIII. Interlude -- XIV. What is Metaphysics ?: Introduction. The Essence of Ground: Prologue -- XV. The Thing -- XVI. Language -- XVII. Working, Dwelling, Thinking -- XVIII. “…Poetically doth man dwell…” -- XIX. What E-vokes Thought? -- Conclusion -- Outlines -- Appendix: Courses, Seminars and Lectures of Martin Heidegger -- Bibliography: -- I. Heidegger’s Works -- A. Order of Publication -- B. Order of Composition -- II. Other Works Cited -- III. Selective Bibliography -- IV. English Translations -- Indexes: -- I. Index of Texts Cited -- II. Index of Proper Names -- II. Index of Greek Terms -- IV. General Index.
    Abstract: Dear Father Richardson: It is with some hesitation that I attempt to answer the two principal questions you posed in your letter of March I, 1962. The first touches on the initial impetus that determined the way my thought would gO. l The other looks for information about the much discussed "reversal" [in my development]. I hesitate with my answers, for they are necessarily no more than indications [of much more to be said]. The lesson of long experience leads me to surmise that such indications will not be taken as directions for the road of independent reflection on the matter pointed out which each must travel for himself. [Instead they] will gain notice as though they were an opinion I had ex­ pressed, and will be propagated as such. Every effort to bring what has been thought closer to prevailing modes of (re)presen­ tation must assimilate what-is-to-be-thought to those (re)presen­ tations and thereby inevitably deform the matter. 2 This preamble is not the lament of a man misunderstood; it is rather the recognition of an almost insurmountable difficulty in making oneself understood. The first question in your letter reads: "How are we properly to understand your first experience of the Being-question in 1 [Translator's note. With regard to the translati~ of Denken, see below, p. 16, note 43. ] I [Translator's note. For the translation of VorsteUung by "(re)presentation," see below, p. 108, note 5. ] VORWORT Sehr geehrter Herr P.
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern
    Abstract: 1 / Knowledge and Its Objects in Plato -- 2/ Plato on Knowing How, Knowing That, and Knowing What -- 3 / Time, Truth, and Knowledge in Aristotle and Other Greek Philosophers -- 4/ Practical vs. Theoretical Reason — An Ambiguous Legacy -- 5/ ‘Cogito, Ergo Sum’ : Inference or Performance ? 98 -- 6/ Kant’s ‘New Method of Thought’ and His Theory of Mathematics -- 7/ Are Logical Truths Analytic ? -- 8/ Kant on the Mathematical Method -- 9 / A Priori Truths and Things-In-Themselves -- 10 / ‘Dinge an sich’ Revisited -- 11 /Knowledge by Acquaintance — Individuation by Acquaintance -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: A word of warning concerning the aims of this volume is in order. Other­ wise some readers might be unpleasantly surprised by the fact that two of the chapters of an ostensibly historical book are largely topical rather than historical. They are Chapters 7 and 9, respectively entitled 'Are Logical Truths Analytic?' and 'A Priori Truths and Things-In-Them­ selves'. Moreover, the history dealt with in Chapter 11 is so recent as to have more critical than antiquarian interest. This mixture of materials may seem all the more surprising as I shall myself criticize (in Chapter I) too facile assimilations of earlier thinkers' concepts and problems to later ones. There is no inconsistency here, it seems to me. The aims of the present volume are historical, and for that very purpose, for the purpose of understanding and evaluating earlier thinkers it is vital to know the conceptual landscape in which they were moving. A crude analogy may be helpful here. No military historian can afford to neglect the topo­ graphy of the battles he is studying. If he does not know in some detail what kind of pass Thermopylae is or on what sort of ridge the battle of Bussaco was fought, he has no business of discussing these battles, even if this topographical information alone does not yet amount to historical knowledge.
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    Series Statement: Treatise on Basic Philosophy 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Semantics ; Science—Philosophy. ; Semiotics.
    Abstract: 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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    Keywords: Law ; International law.
    Abstract: The ‘Solus’ Agreement in English Law and in the Law of the European Communities -- The Development of European Economic Community Antitrust Jurisdiction over Alien Undertakings -- EEC Competition Law after the Brasserie de Haecht II and SABAM Cases -- The Law as It Stands against Treaty Violations by States.
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: 1 Principles of structure and bonding -- 2 Simple hydrides and halides -- 3 Non-metal oxides, sulphides, and their derivatives -- 4 The elements -- 5 Catenated compounds and related systems -- 6 Borazines, phosphazenes, silicones, and related systems.
    Abstract: This book is a new attempt to interrelate the chemistry of the non-metals. In the early chapters, simple compounds of the non-metals with the halogens, hydrogen, and oxygen are surveyed, permitting a large area of chemistry to be discussed without the burden of too many facts. The structural relationships in the elemental forms of the non-metals are then used as an introduction to the catenated compounds, including the boron hydrides. In the concluding chapter, selected heteronuclear chain, ring, and cage compounds are con­ sidered. In some chapters, we have thought it useful to outline important features of a topic in relation to chemical theory, before giving a more detailed ac count of the chemistry of individual elements. The book is certainly not comprehensive and the bias in the material selected probably reflects our interest in volatile, covalent non-metal compounds. Suggestions for furt her reading are presented in two ways. A selected bibliography lists general textbooks which relate to much of our subject matter. References in the text point to review articles and to a few original papers which we consider to be of special interest. Although there are few difficult concepts in the text, the treatment may be appreciated most by students with some previous exposure to a Group by Group approach to non-metal chemistry. We have assumed an elementary knowledge of chemical periodicity, bonding theory, thermodynamics, and spectroscopic methods of structure determination.
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    Series Statement: Tulane Studies in Philosophy XXIII
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ontology
    Abstract: A Process View of Causality -- Heraclitus and the Future of Process Philosophy -- The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory and Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism -- Why Whitehead is not a “Process” Philosopher -- Whitehead’s Doctrine of Eternal Objects and its Interpretations -- Process and Pragmatism -- On De-Mythologizing Whitehead’s Actual Entity.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 12
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 12
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; History
    Abstract: I. Mathematical Reasoning Cannot be Analysed by Traditional Syllogistics -- II. The Psychological Interpretation of Mathematical Reasoning -- III. The Logicist Tradition -- IV. Strict Demonstration and Heuristic Procedures -- V. Intuitive Structures and Formalised Mathematics -- VI. “Thinking Machines” and Mathematical Thought -- VII. Lessons of the:History of the Relations Between Logic and Psychology -- VIII. General Psychological Problems of Logico-Mathematical Thought -- IX. General Psychological Problems of Logico-Mathematical Thought (Continued) -- X. The Psychological Problems of “Pure” Thought -- XI. Some Convergences Between Formal and Genetic Analyses -- XII. Epistemological Problems with Logical and Psychological Relevance -- General Conclusions -- Name Index.
    Abstract: One of the controversial philosophical issues of recent years has been the question of the nature of logical and mathematical entities. Platonist or linguistic modes of explanation have become fashionable, whilst abstrac­ tionist and constructionist theories have ceased to be so. Beth and Piaget approach this problem in their book from two somewhat different points of view. Beth's approach is largely historico-critical, although he discusses the nature of heuristic thinking in mathematics, whilst that of Piaget is psycho-genetic. The major purpose of this introduction is to summarise some of the main points of their respective arguments. In the first part of this book Beth makes a detailed study of the history of philosophical thinking about mathematics, and draws our attention to the important role played by the Aristotelian methodology of the demon­ strative sciences. This, he tells us, is characterised by three postulates: (a) deductivity, (b) self-evidence, and (c) reality. The last postulate asserts that the primitive notions of a demonstrative science must have reference to a domain of real entities in order to have significance. On the Aristote­ lian view discursive reasoning plays a major role in mathematics, whilst pure intuition plays a somewhat subordinate one.
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    Series Statement: Episteme, A Series in the Foundational, Methodological, Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological and Historical Aspects of the Sciences, Pure and Applied 1
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Education Philosophy ; Data structures (Computer science) ; Information theory
    Abstract: I / Introduction -- 1. Basic Problems of Abstract Coding Theory -- 2. Basic Properties of Error-Correcting Codes -- II / Theoretical Studies -- Overview -- 3. A Study of Error-Correcting Codes, I -- 4. A Study of Error-Correcting Codes, II: Decodability Properties -- 5. A Study of Error-Correcting Codes, III: Synchronizability and Comma-Freedom -- 6. A Study of Error-Correcting Codes, IV: Code Properties and Unambiguous Sets -- 7. Some General Results of Abstract Coding Theory with Applications to the Study of Codes for the Correction of Synchronization Errors -- III / Tests and Constructions -- Overview -- 8. The Sardinas/Patterson and Levenshtein Theorems -- 9. Generalization of Tests for Certain Properties of Variable-Length Codes -- 10. On a Family of Error Correcting and Synchronizable Codes -- 11. A Family of Codes for the Correction of Substitution and Synchronization Errors -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography on Coding Theory (1957–1968) from Parke Mathematical Laboratories -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: During the sixteenth century, Cardano wrote a fascinating work called The Book on Games of Chance. In it he gives an extremely candid recount­ ing and personal appraisal of some aspects of his most remarkable life. * One feature of the book is striking for the modern scientist or mathemati­ cian accustomed to current publishing practices. It is brought out during Cardano's discussion of his investigations of certain special questions of applied probability, namely, the question of how to win at gambling. His technique is simplicity itself: in fine reportorial style he reveals his proposed strategy for a particular gambling game, giving marvelous motivating arguments which induce the reader to feel warm, heartfelt support for the projected strategy. Then with all the drama that only a ringside seat observation can bring, Cardano announces that he tried the strategy at the casino and ended up borrowing his taxi fare. Undaunted by failure, he analyzes his now fire-tested strategy in detail, mounts new and per­ suasive arguments, and, ablaze with fresh optimism and replenished resources, charges off to the fray determined to now succeed where he had so often failed before. Along the way, Cardano developed a number of valuable insights about games of chance and produced useful research results which presumably would be of interest in our present-day society. However, he could never publish the results today in journals with all the flair, the mistakes, the failures and minor successes which he exhibits in his book.
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    ISBN: 9789401024280
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 190 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Plan Europe 2000 Project 3 Urbanization, Planning Human Environment in Europe 4
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology
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    ISBN: 9789401024631
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 174 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, Series Minor 11
    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Logic ; History ; Linguistics.
    Abstract: One The Nature of Logic -- of Part One -- I. Signs and Language -- II. Concerning the formal -- III. Logic and grammar -- IV. Logic and Psychology -- Two On the Grammar of Words, Sentences, and Combinations of Sentences -- of Part Two -- I. General remarks -- II. Kinds of Words -- III. Kinds of Sentence -- IV. Combinations of Sentences.
    Abstract: This book is the first English version of Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik, published by Julius Springer, Vienna, 1935, as Volume 10 of the Vienna Circle's series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung. The prefatory remarks of both editor and author acknowledge the influence ofWittgenstein in a general way. However, in aim and approach, the work differs from Wittgenstein's Philosophische Grammatik (l969). This is indeed based on material going back to 1932, some of which Schachter must have known. On the other hand, the present Prolegomena not only explains the general, philosophical principles to be followed, but in the light of these proceeds to cover the entire range of conventional grammar, showing where that is uncritical. Whether Wittgenstein in his turn knew of Schachter's work has never been explored. Schachter's object is universal grammar. As is natural, the examples in the original are largely drawn from German grammar, with occasional minor excursions into other languages. For English readers, what matters are the general problems of grammar: there is no point in tying these to the linguistic peculiarities of German, let alone a local variety of it. One who can grasp German at that level might as well read the original. The translation is therefore twofold: the text as a whole has been rendered into English, and the entire apparatus of examples has been replaced, as far as this can be done, by illustrations from English grammar, chosen so as to bring out the same kinds of problem as in the original.
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    ISBN: 9789401025065
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    Series Statement: 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 49
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 49
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Grammar -- 1. Sentence Stress and Syntactic Transformations -- 2. The Acquisition of Phonology and Syntax: A Preliminary Study -- 3. A Syntactical Analysis of Some First-Grade Readers -- 4. A Computational Treatment of Case Grammar -- 5. Identifiability of a Class of Transformational Grammars -- 6. On the Insufficiency of Surface Data for the Learning of Transformational Languages -- 7. Nonfiltering and Local-Filtering Transformational Grammars -- II. Semantics -- 8. Grammar and Logic: Some Borderline Problems -- 9. Comments on Hintikka’s Paper -- 10. The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English -- 11. Comments on Montague’s Paper -- 12. Comments on Montague’s Paper -- 13. Mass Terms in English -- 14. Comments on Moravcsik’s Paper -- 15. Comments on Moravcsik’s Paper -- 16. Comments on Moravcsik’s Paper -- 17. Reply to Comments -- 18. The Semantics of Belief-Sentences -- 19. Comments on Professor Partee’ s Paper -- 20. Comments on Partee’s Paper -- 21. Semantics of Context-free Fragments of Natural Languages -- 22. Representation of the Montague Semantics as a Form of the Suppes Semantics with Applications to the Problem of the Introduction of the Passive Voice, the Tenses, and Negation as Transformations -- III. Special Topics -- 23. On the Problem of Subject Structure in Language with Application to Late Archaic Chinese -- 24. Comments on Cheng’s Paper -- 25. Some Considerations for the Process of Topicalization -- 26 Late Lexicalizations -- 27. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.
    Abstract: The papers and comments published in the present volume represent the proceedings of a research workshop on the grammar and semantics of natural languages held at Stanford University in the fall of 1970. The workshop met first for three days in September and then for a period of two days in November for extended discussion and analysis. The workshop was sponsored by the Committee on Basic Research in Education, which has been funded by the United States Office of Education through a grant to the National Academy of Education and the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council. We acknowledge with pleasure the sponsorship which made possible a series oflively and stimulating meetings that were both enjoyable and instructive for the three of us, and, we hope, for most of the participants, including a number of local linguists and philosophers who did not contribute papers but actively joined in the discussion. One of the central participants in the workshop was Richard Montague. We record our sense of loss at his tragic death early in 1971, and we dedicate this volume to his memory. None of the papers in the present volume discusses explicitly problems of education. In our view such a discussion is neither necessary nor sufficient for a contribution to basic research in education. There are in fact good reasons why the kind of work reported in the present volume constitutes an important aspect of basic research in education.
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    ISBN: 9789401025348
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    Series Statement: 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
    Series Statement: 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 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9789401026246
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in The History of Logic and Philosophy 7
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 7
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: Translation—Al-Qiy?s Book V -- One On Conditional Propositions and Their Types -- Two On Separative-Conditional Propositions -- Three Onthe Kinds of Combinations in Pure Conditional -- Four On Explaining the Meaning of the Universal, the Particular, the Indefinite and the Singular [Connective-] Conditional Proposition -- Five On the Universal Negative in [Connective-] Conditional Propositions -- Book VI -- One On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective-Conditional Propositions Arranged in Three Figures -- Two On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective and Separative Propositions -- Three On the Syllogisms Compounded of Separative Propositions -- Four Onthe Syllogisms Compounded of Predicative and Conditional Propositions -- Five On the Three Figures of the Syllogisms Compounded of a Predicative and a Conditional Proposition Where the Predicative Shares [Either Its Subject or Its Predicate] with [the Subject or the Predicate] of the Antecedent (of the Conditional Proposition) -- Six On the Three Figures of the Divided Syllogism -- Book VII -- One On Equipollence and Opposition Between Connective-Conditional Propositions -- Two On the Opposition Between Separative-Conditional Propositions and Separative- and Connective-Conditional Propositions and the State of Their Equipollence -- Three On the Conversion of the Connective Proposition -- Book VIII -- One On the Definition of the Exceptive Syllogism -- Two On the Enumeration of the Exceptive Syllogisms [which have a Separative-Conditional Premiss] -- Book IX -- One On Explaining that Exceptive Syllogisms Cannot Be Completed Except by Conjunctive Syllogisms -- Commentary -- Book V -- Book VI -- Book VII -- Book VIII -- Book IX.
    Abstract: The main purpose of this work is to provide an English translation of and commentary on a recently published Arabic text dealing with con­ ditional propositions and syllogisms. The text is that of A vicenna (Abu represents his views on the subject as they were held throughout his life.
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    Series Statement: Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, An International Series Of Fundamental Textbooks 8
    DDC: 520
    Keywords: Physics
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    ISBN: 9789401023771
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Collection Publiée Sous Le Patronage Des Centres D’Archives-Husserl 50
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H. L. Van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives 50
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: My Own Life -- The Phenomenon of Language -- An Interpretation of the Doctrine of the Ego in Husserl’s Ideen -- The Philosophic Impact of the Facts Themselves -- Perceptual Coherence as the Foundation of the Judgment of Predication -- Husserl and Whitehead on the Concrete -- Being and Time: Some Aspects of the Ego’s Involvement in his Mental Life -- Husserl’s Doctrine of Noesis-Noema -- Evidence in Husserl’s Phenomenology -- Crossing the Manhattan Bridge -- Husserl’s Way into Phenomenology for Americans: A Letter and its Sequel -- The Art of Free Phantasy in Rigorous Phenomenological Science -- Append -- An Approach to Husserlian Phenomenology -- The Ideality of Verbal Expressions -- Perceiving, Remembering, Image-Awareness, Feigning Awareness -- Bibliography of the Writings of Dorion Cairns -- List of Contributors.
    Abstract: Under the title of "Phenomenology: Continuation and Crit­ icism," the group of essays in this volume are presented in honor of Dorion Cairns on his 70th birthday. The contributors comprise friends, colleagues and former students of Dorion Cairns who, each in his own way, share the interest of Dorion Cairns in Husserlian phenomenology. That interest itself may be best defined by these words of Edmund Husserl: "Philosophy - wis­ dom (sagesse) - is the philosopher's quite personal affair. It must arise as his wisdom, as his self-acquired knowledge tending toward universality, a knowledge for which he can answer from the beginning . . . " 1 It is our belief that only in the light of these words can phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy be continued, but always reflexively, critically. For over forty years Dorion Cairns has, through his teaching and writing, selflessly worked to bring the idea expressed by Husserl's words into self­ conscious exercise. In so doing he has, to the benefit of those who share his interest, confirmed Husserl's judgement of him that he is "among the rare ones who have penetrated into the deepest sense of my phenomenology, . . . who had the energy and persist­ ence not to desist until he had arrived at real understanding.
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    Series Statement: Studies in Social Life 17
    Series Statement: Studies of Social Life 17
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    Keywords: History ; Business. ; Management science. ; Strategic planning. ; Leadership.
    Abstract: 1. Enterprise Management and Economic Development -- 2. Long-Range Planning -- 3. Policy-Making and Control Mechanism -- 4. Organization -- 5. The Worker and His Boss: The Leadership Styles in Taiwan -- 6. Manpower Management -- 7. Management and Enterprise Effectiveness -- 8. Summary and Conclusions: Management Transfer: Feasibility and Usefulness -- Appendix A Interview Guide -- Appendix B Questionnaire.
    Abstract: The ping-pong diplomacy and its aftermath discussion, coupled with the entry of communist China into the United Nations and the subsequent expulsion of Taiwan, will generate considerable political dialogue about the changing balance of power and the fate of the other China. These political discussions will obviously overshadow the true role and function of the existence of Taiwan. Given the time, Taiwan could become a model for the development process for other emerging countries. Taiwan's experience with eco­ nomic development has real relevance for many countries. For exam­ ple, in less than two decades Taiwan has achieved the industrial and economic growth that should well make it the envy of nearly all other developing nations. Its per capita income is exceeded only by Japan among the countries of the Far East. Yet, despite vigorous economic and industrial growth, obvious breakdowns in this economic progress come into view. The lack of managerial input threatens to become a real bottleneck. The study reported in this volume examines the feasibility and utility of transferring advanced management know-how and practices into the industrial enterprises in Taiwan in order to generate further economic and industrial growth. The study itself concerns management practices and effectiveness of American subsidiaries, Japanese sub­ sidiaries, and comparable local firms in Taiwan.
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    ISBN: 9789401025256
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Sociology. ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: 1. Memories of Otto Neurath -- 1. Otto Neurath’s Parents; the Father’s autobiographical sketch -- 2. Otto Neurath’s Childhood, from autobiographical notes -- 3. University Days, contributed by Marie Neurath -- 4. Military Life, contributed by G. Neumann -- 5. A Teacher of Political Economy, from N. Y. Ben-Gavriel -- 6. Excerpts from Ernst Lakenbacher -- 7. From Wolfgang Schumann -- 8. Autobiographical Excerpts from Otto Neurath -- 9. Munich 1919 and Later, from Ernst Niekisch -- 10. From Otto Neurath’s Son, the Sociologist Paul Neurath -- 11. Heinz Umrath -- 12. From Rudolf Carnap’s Intellectual Autobiography -- 13. Heinrich Neider -- 14. Viktor Kraft -- 15. Karl R. Popper -- 16. 26 September 1924 and After, from Marie Neurath -- 17. Charles Morris -- 18. Marie Neurath: 1940-1945 -- 19. Bilston and A. V. Williams -- 20. Marie Neurath: Otto’s Last Day, 22nd December 1945 -- References -- 2. Six Lessons -- 1. The Little Discourse on the Sanctity of Vocation (by La-Se-Fe) -- 2. The Strange (by La-Se-Fe) -- 3. The Little Discourse on the Virtues (by La-Se-Fe) -- 4. On Delay -- 5. Measure and Number -- 6. Of Masters and Servants -- References -- 3. On the Foundations of the History of Optics -- Reference -- 4. The Problem of the Pleasure Maximum -- References -- 5. Through War Economy to Economy in Kind -- List of Contents -- Preface (April 1919) -- The Theory of War Economy as a Separate Discipline (1913) -- The Converse Taylor System (1917) -- Character and Course of Socialization (1919) -- Utopia as a Social Engineer’s Construction (1919) -- Total Socialization -- References -- 6. Anti-Spengler -- 1. Rejection of Spengler -- 2. Phases of Culture -- 3. The Character of Culture -- 4. Spengler’s Description of the World -- References -- 7. From Vienna Method to Isotype -- 1. The Social and Economic Museum in Vienna (1925) -- 2. Visual Education and the Social and Economic Museum in Vienna (1931) -- 3. Museums of the Future (1933) -- 4. A New Language (1937) -- 5. Visual Education: Humanisation versus Popularisation -- Reference -- 8. Personal Life and Class Struggle -- Introduction: New Principles for Living -- 1. The Coming Man in the Present -- 2. Community Life and Economic Plan -- 3. Eternal Peace -- 4. Youth Associations, School, Vocational Guidance -- 5. Marx and Epicurus -- 6. Turning Away from Metaphysics -- References -- 9. Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis [The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle] -- Preface -- 1. The Vienna Circle of the Scientific Conception of the World -- 2. The Scientific World Conception -- 3. Fields of Problems -- 4. Retrospect and Prospect -- References -- 10. Empirical Sociology. The Scientific Content of History and Political Economy -- 1. From Magic to Unified Science -- 2. History -- 3. Political Economy -- 4. Uniting History with Political Economy -- 5. Metaphysical Countercurrents -- 6. Sociology on a Materialist Foundation -- 7. Extrapolation -- 8. Coherence -- 9. Structure of Society -- 10. Sociological Prognosis -- References -- 11. International Planning for Freedom -- 1. Pursuit of Happiness -- 2. Production of Freedom -- 3. International Planning in the Making -- References -- 12. List of Works by Otto Neurath -- Notes: Names and Explanations -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: On the last day of his life, Otto Neurath had given help to a Chinese philosopher who was writing about Schlick. Only an hour before his death he said to me: "Nobody will do such a thing for me." My answer then was: "Never mind, you have Bilston, isn't that better?" There were con­ sultations in new housing schemes, an exhibition, and hopes for a fruitful relationship of longer duration. I did not dream at that time that I would one day work on a book like this. The idea came from Horace M. Kallen, of the New School for Social Research, New York, years later; to encourage me he sent me his selection from William James' writings. Later I met Robert S. Cohen. Carnap had sent him to me with the message: "If you want to find out what my political views were in the twenties and thirties, read Otto Neurath's books and articles of that time; his views were also mine." In this way Robert Cohen became ac­ quainted with Otto Neurath. Even more: he became interested; and when I asked him, would he help me as an editor of an Otto N eurath volume, he agreed at once. In previous years I had already asked a number of Otto Neurath's friends to write down for me what they especially remembered about him.
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    Series Statement: Outline Studies In Biology
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Strategy and tactics -- 3 Model systems, the reductionist approach -- 3.1 Bacteriophage -- 3.2 Enzyme induction in bacteria -- 3.3 Spore formation in bacteria -- 3.4 Are prokaryotes good models for eukaryotes? -- 3.5 The cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum -- 3.6 Tissue culture cells -- 3.7 Metamorphosis -- References -- 4 Special systems, the classical approach -- 4.1 Chromosome structure and function -- 4.2 RNA synthesis -- 4.3 Protein synthesis -- 4.4 Protein degradation -- 4.5 Protein modification -- 4.6 Metabolism -- Summary -- References -- Suggestions for further reading.
    Abstract: The development of an embryo is one of the which prevents entry of other sperm, fusion of most awe inspiring biological phenomena and the two haploid nuclei occurs and within about the study of cell differentiation can be traced 30 minutes the pigmented cortex rotates with respect to the underlying cytoplasm and in so back in antiquity to Aristotle and beyond However, there are few modern sciences which doing it reveals a grey, crescent shaped area on pay more than a cursory obeisance to their the side of the egg opposite to the point of founders and few students seem very interested entry of the sperm. This is another example of in the theories of their dead predecessors. polarity developing. Soon after fertilization the Embryology, though, is that rare exception - a zygote enters a period of rapid nuclear and cell division. The result of this cleavage process is science where the problems, theories and often that the egg cytoplasm is partitioned between techniques that excite our interest today, are essentially the same as those which excited our numerous cells whose ratio of nuclear volume to cytoplasmic volume is more like that found colleagues of fifty or even a hundred years ago. in an 'average' somatic cell.
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    Series Statement: Chestnut Hill Studies in Modern Languages and Literatures 2
    Series Statement: Chestnut Hill Studies in Modern Language and Literature 2
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Language and languages—Style.
    Abstract: Monographs -- Das Erlebnis und die Interpretation in Luthers Erstlingsschrift -- Limitations of Literary Criticism -- La prosa nutrice del verso: dal Convivio alla Divina Commedia -- Un salon parnassien d’avant-garde: Nina de Villard et ses hôtes -- Articles -- Encyclopédie et culture généreale -- Sur la théorie du rondeau littéraire -- The Organic Unity of Les Faux-Monnayeurs -- “Conscience”, the Jesuits, and the Quijote -- Spacing in the Early Editions of Candide -- Plates.
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    Series Statement: Plan Europe 2000, Project 1: Educating Man for the 21st Century, Published under the Auspices of the European Cultural Foundation 1
    Series Statement: Plan Europe 2000, Project 1: Educating Man for the 21st Century 1
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state.
    Abstract: Possible Futures of European Education -- 1. On General Problems of Social Forecasts -- 2. Forecasts of Educational Expenditures in Fourteen European Countries and the United States -- 3. A Systems Prognostication of the European Social System -- 4. On a Theory of Education -- 5. Trends in the System’s Development -- 6. Summary -- How Should the Future be Studied? -- Social and Cultural Futures in Western Europe a Framework for Analysis -- 1. Social Change or Continuity — Problems in Social and Cultural Futures -- 2. A sociological framework for Hypothetical Futures -- 3. The dynamics of social Change and Discontinuity -- 4. Emerging European Futures — The Basic Qualitative Dilemma -- Biographical Notes.
    Abstract: In "Plan Europe 2000," launched by the European Cultural Foundation, the first project is devoted to education. This project sets out to isolate the principal features, and to sketch the "image" of the educational system in the year 2000. It is not a matter of "forecasting," for that would imply that the modes of educating people in the next thirty years are predeter­ mined and subject to the operation of factors that must be respected like the laws of an inevitable evolution. We should be trying to unveil what is to come. Nor is the enterprise a project based on the options considered to be most desirable, which would imply that man has an entirely free will and is capable of dominating anything that might oppose that will. We should then be trying to "dictate" what we want to exist in the year 2000. It would be the act of a demiurge. The project is in fact a long-term prospective effort, which must take into consideration· - major constraints and unyielding tendencies, scarcely susceptible of significant change; - data and factors that can be more or less freely manipulated but not ignored or eradicated; - priorities dictated by the limitations of time and means; - the authors' freedom of action, subject to the above limitations, and in any event to the following one: they must not conflict with European aspirations, even the latent ones; they must not outrage mental atti­ tudes that can only be modified by persuasion.
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    Series Statement: Materials Science Series
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: (The Nature of Polymer Glasses, Their Packing Density and Mechanical Behaviour) -- The Nature of Polymeric Glasses -- Packing Volume in the Glassy State -- The Rigidity of Polymer Glasses -- Large Deformations and Fracture -- References -- 1 The Thermodynamics of the Glassy State -- 1.1 Introductory Thermodynamic Considerations -- 1.2 Glassy Solidification and Transition Phenomena -- 1.3 Results of the Thermodynamic Theory of Linear Relaxation Phenomena -- 1.4 Glassy Mixed Phases -- 1.5 The Mobility and Structure of Glassy Phases -- References -- 2 X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Structure of Amorphous Polymers -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Interaction of X-rays With Matter -- 2.3 Order and Orientation in Polymers -- 2.4 Diffraction of X-rays by Amorphous Materials -- 2.5 Small Angle X-ray Scattering -- 2.6 The Radial Distribution Function for Amorphous Polymers -- References -- 3 Relaxation Processes in Amorphous Polymers -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Molecular Motion in Polymeric Melts and Glasses -- 3.3 Secondary Relaxation Regions in Typical Organic Glasses -- References -- 4 Creep in Glassy Polymers -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.3 Apparatus and Experimental Methods -- 4.4 Creep Phenomena in Glassy Polymers -- 4.5 Final Comments -- References and Bibliography -- 5 The Yield Behaviour of Glassy Polymers -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.3 Mechanical Tests -- 5.4 Characteristics of the Yield Process -- 5.5 Inhomogeneous Deformation -- 5.6 Structural Observations -- 5.7 Yield Criteria for Polymers -- 5.8 Molecular Theories of Yielding -- References -- 6 The Post-Yield Behaviour of Amorphous Plastics -- 6.1 General -- 6.2 The Phenomena of’ strain Softening’ -- 6.3 Plastic Instability Phenomena -- 6.4 The Adiabatic Heating of Polymers Subject to Large Deformations -- 6.5 Orientation Hardening -- 6.6 Large Deformation and Fracture -- References -- 7 Cracking and Crazing in Polymeric Glasses -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Fracture Mechanics -- 7.3 Fatigue Fracture -- 7.4 Crazing -- 7.5 Molecular Fracture -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Rubber ReinForced Thermoplastics -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Rubber Reinforced Glassy Polymers of Commercial Importance -- 8.3 Methods of Manufacture -- 8.4 Incompatibility in Polymer Mixtures -- 8.5 Identification of Two Phase Rubber Reinforced Systems -- 8.6 Dispersed Phase Morphology -- 8.7 Optical Properties -- 8.8 Mechanical Properties -- References -- 9 The Diffusion and Sorption of Gases and Vapours in Glassy Polymers -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Ideal and Non-ideal Sorption and Diffusion of Fixed Gases -- 9.3 The Effect of the Glass Transition on Gas and Vapour Diffusion in Polymers -- 9.4 Relaxation Controlled Transport and Related Crazing of Polymeric Glasses by Vapours -- 9.5 Some Effects of Crystallinity and Orientation on the Transport of Gases and Vapours in Glassy Polymers -- References -- 10 The Morphology of Regular Block Copolymers -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Techniques Used for the Study of the Morphology of Block Copolymers -- 10.3 Variables Controlling the Morphology -- 10.4 Studies with Specific Systems -- 10.5 Theories of the Morphology of Block Copolymers -- 10.6 Implications of Theories and Comparison With Experiment -- 10.7 Mechanical Properties and Deformations -- 10.8 Crystallinity -- References -- Appendix I Glass Transition Temperatures and Expansion Coefficients for the Glass and Rubber States of some Typical Polymeric Glasses -- Appendix II Conversion Factors for SI Units.
    Abstract: This work sets out to provide an up-to-date account of the physical properties and structure of polymers in the glassy state. Properties measured above the glass transition temperature are therefore included only in so far as is necessary for the treatment of the glass transition process. This approach to the subject therefore excludes any detailed account of rubber elasticity or melt rheology or of the structure and conformation of the long chain molecule in solution, although knowledge derived from this field is assumed where required. Major emphasis is placed on structural and mechanical properties, although a number of other physical properties are included. Naturally the different authors contributing to the book write mainly from their own particular points of view and where there are several widely accepted theoretical approaches to a subject, these are sometimes provided in different chapters which will necessarily overlap to a significant extent. For example, the main theoretical presentation on the subject of glass transition is given in Chapter 1. This is supplemented by accounts of the free volume theory in Chapter 3 and in the Introduction, and a short account of the work of Gibbs and DiMarzio, also in Chapter 3. Similarly, there is material on solvent cracking in Chapters 7 and 9, though the two workers approach the subject from opposite directions. Every effort has therefore been made to encourage cross-referencing between different chapters.
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    ISBN: 9789401024693
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (180p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’histoire des Idees 66
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 66
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    Keywords: Philosophy, modern ; History
    Abstract: I. Berkeley’s Writings -- Collected Works and Selections -- Works published by Berkeley, and translations Philosophical, Mathematical, Physical -- Miscellaneous -- Posthumously published remains -- Spuria -- II. Writings on Berkeley -- Miscellanea-Biographical, literary, etc. -- On the tar-water controversy -- On the Analyst controversy.
    Abstract: Since the first appearance of this bibliography (1934, Oxford Uni­ versity Press), which has long been out of print, so much attention has been paid to Berkeley that a mere reprint would be inept. Besides bringing it up to date I have added collations of those editions of Berkeley's writings that were published in his lifetime. In doing so I have used a form of description simple enough for anyone to follow yet sufficient to enable librarians to check their catalogues and to identify copies in which the titlepage is missing or mutilated. As before, I have marked with an asterisk throughout the bibliography every book, edition and article that has not been seen by me or, in a few cases, by a competent friend. My primary interest not being bibliographical in the present-day highly technical sense, but philosophical, I have aimed chiefly at (a) providing advanced students (and their hard-pressed advisers) of Berkeley, or of the subjects on which he wrote, with a guide to the materials for research, and (b) displaying the range in time and place, and the direction, of the attention which he has attracted. These two aims account for the classification of the entries under a few general subject-headings and of the philosophical entries under countries, and for the arranging of the entries in each section or subsection in chrono­ logical order, the alphabetical ordering of the authors' names being given in the Index. To facilitate reference and cross-reference each entry is numbered.
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (204p) , digital
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    Series Statement: 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 44
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 44
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9789401024457
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (65p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas 7
    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées Minor 7
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics
    Abstract: Perception -- Aesthetic Perception -- Aesthetic Qualities -- The Connection -- A Note on the Text -- Lectures on the Fine Arts -- Mind and Body -- Taste and the Fine Arts.
    Abstract: The past few years have seen a revival of interest in Thomas Reid's philosophy. His moral theory has been studied by D. D. Raphael (The Moral Sense) and his entire philosophical position by S. A. Grave (The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense). Prior to both, A. D. Woozley gave us the first modern reprint of Reid's Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man - in fact the first edition of any work by Reid to appear in print since the Philosophical Works was edited in the nineteenth century by Sir William Hamilton. But Reid's aesthetic philosophy has not received its due. Woozley, in abridging the Essays, omitted the whole final essay, "On Taste," which is the only extended work on aesthetic theory that Reid ever published. Raphael, being interested primarily in Reid's moral theory, understand­ ably, treated aesthetics only as it was related to morality. And Grave, although he did present a short and very cogent resume of Reid's aes­ thetic position, obviously found himself drawn to other elements of Reid's philosophy. There are, of course, some accounts of Reid's aes­ thetic theory to be found in the various studies of eighteenth-century British aesthetics and criticism. None, however, appears to me to do any kind of justice to the philosophical questions which Reid treats in his aesthetics and philosophy of art.
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    ISBN: 9789401025133
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (424p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Text and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 5
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 5
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9789401025225
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 251 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: 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 45
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 45
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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    ISBN: 9789401026505
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (444p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs of Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 56
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 56
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 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.
    Abstract: 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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