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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789401021289
    Language: English
    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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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789401022965
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (162p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 25
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    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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  • 3
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    ISBN: 9789401022248
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (378p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History 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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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789401021401
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (468p) , digital
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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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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9789401022293
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (164p) , digital
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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: 9789401099226
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (223p) , digital
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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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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9789401021074
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 6
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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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  • 8
    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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    ISBN: 9789401022910
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy 2
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 2
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    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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    ISBN: 9789401020930
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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
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    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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    ISBN: 9789401021159
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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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    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: 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
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    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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    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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    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
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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: 9789401025683
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 51
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Mathematical logic. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I: Logic (Section IV) -- An Intensional Interpretation of Truth-Values -- Intensional Descriptions and Relative Completeness in the General Interpreted Modal Calculus MCV -- Singular Terms and Statements of Identity -- Adequate Models for the Non-Fregean Sentential Calculus (SCI) -- Doubts about Some Standard Arguments for Church’s Thesis -- II: Probability (Section VI) -- On the Causal Structure of Random Processes -- The Paradox of Anomaly -- Some Problems in the Constructive Probability Theory -- Evidence and Conceptual Change -- Empirically Trivial Theories and Inductive Systematization -- Are Some Propensities Probabilities? -- Questions and Their Pragmatic Value -- Prediction, Complexity, and Randomness -- Rules for Reasonable Belief Change -- III: Language (Section XI) -- Models for Text Grammars -- Tolerance Spaces and Linguistics -- Modal Tic-Tac-Toe -- On Binary Relations in Linguistic and Other Semiotic and Social Systems -- Worlds, Games and Pragmemes: A Unified Theory of Speech Acts -- On Occasional Expressions -- Combinators and Deep Structure -- Linguistic Theory and ‘Meaning?Text’ Type Models -- Properties of the Derivations According to a Context- Free Grammar -- The Treatment of Reference in Linguistic Description -- Fregean Categorial Grammar -- A Model-Theoretic Approach to Some Problems in the Semantics of Empirical Languages -- Methodological Relevance of Language Models with Expanding Sets of Sentences -- A New Type of Syntactic Projectivity: SD Projectivity -- On the Representation of Generative Grammars as First-Order Theories -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos­ ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter­ national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, by the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, the Academy of Social and Political Sciences of the Socialist Republic of Romania, and the Ministry of Education of Romania. With more than eight hundred participating scholars from thirty-four countries, the Congress was one of the major scientific events of the year 1971. The dedicated efforts of the organizers, the rich and carefully planned program, and the warm and friendly atmosphere contributed to making the Congress a successful and fruitful forum of exchange of scientific ideas. The work of the Congress consisted of invited one hour and half-hour addresses, symposia, and contributed papers. The proceedings were organized into twelve sections of Mathematical Logic, Foundations of Mathematical Theories, Automata and Programming Languages, Philos­ ophy of Logic and Mathematics, General Problems of Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Probability and Induction, Methodology and Philosophy of Physical Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Biological Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Psychological Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Historical and Social Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Linguistics, and History of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.
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    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 48
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Book One - Part I -- Cosmological Explanation, B.C. -- The Conceptual Content of Book One, Part I -- The Historical Content of Book One, Part I -- Plato -- Eudoxos and ‘Plato’s Problem’ -- Aristotle -- Book One - Part II -- Ptolemy and Prediction -- Pre-Ptolemaic Anticipations -- Three Dimensional Variations of Ptolemy’s Technique -- Book Two - Part I -- The Medieval Rediscovery of Ptolemy’s Tool Box -- ‘The Ptolemaic System’ -- Supplementary Material for Book Two, Section A -- Book Two - Part II -- Copernicus’ Systematic Astronomy -- Further Aspects of Copernican Astronomy in Contrast to All that had Gone Before -- Supplement to Section on Copernican Theory -- Book Three - Part I -- Kepler and the ‘Clean’ Idea -- Supplementary Material for Book Three, Part I.
    Abstract: An occurrence is explained by being related to prior events through known laws. Other intellectual activities may also constitute explanation - but this much certainly does. Ideally, an explained occurrence (0) could have been predicted in a connected way - by extrapolation from prior events (e) via the same laws (L). Schematically, 1 Explanation: 0 -Lt, 2, 3-(e e e )'-AI t 2 3 01 Prediction: (e e e )I-L , 2, 3_ +.11 t 2 3 t Thus Mars' backward loop in late summer, 1956, is explained by showing how this follows from (e ) its mean distance from sun and earth, (e ) its t 2 mean period of revolution, (e ) its past positions relative to earth, etc. 3 - by way of the laws of Celestial Mechanics (including (Lt) Kepler's Laws and Galileo's, (L2) Newton's, and (L3) those of Laplace and Lagrange. Moreover, this loop (0) could have been predicted from such events (e -e ) via the laws of Celestial Mechanics. t 3 This is an ideal situation. It crystallized late in the history of planetary theory. The Greeks found explanations for heavenly motions: the back­ ward loops were explained to their satisfaction. But they could not predict these motions, not in terms of Attic explanatory cosmologies.
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    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 53
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    Abstract: 1. Theoretical concepts and inductive Inference -- 1. Problems of Inductive Systematization: the Transitivity Dilemma -- 2. Inductive Systematization Established by Theories -- 3. A Logical Framework for the Dynamics of Conceptual Change and Induction -- 2. Hintikka’s Two-Dimensional Continuum of Inductive Logic -- 1. Summary of Hintikka’s Two-dimensional Continuum -- 2. The Treatment of Incomplete Evidence -- 3. Inductive Probabilities of Weak Generalizations -- 1. Probabilities in the Observational Language -- 2. Evidential Theoretical Concepts -- 3. Non-Evidential Theoretical Concepts -- 4. Inductive Probabilities of Strong Generalizations -- 5. Piecewise Definable Theoretical Concepts -- 6. Epistemic Utilities and Inductive Systematization -- 1. Measures of Information and Systematic Power -- 2. Expected Epistemic Utilities of Generalizations -- 3. Competing Generalizations -- 7. Theoretical Concepts and Inductive Explanation -- 1. Explanatory Power of Theories -- 2. Inductive Explanation Illustrated -- 3. Positive Inductive Relevance, Supersessance, and Screening Off -- 4. Inductive Explanation within Hintikka’s System -- 8. Corroboration and Theoretical Concepts -- 1. Theoretical and Observational Support -- 2. Measures of Corroboration Based on Positive Inductive Relevance -- 3. Hintikka’s Measure of Corroboration -- 9. The Logical Indispensability of Theoretical Concepts within Inductive Systematization -- 1. The Theoretician’s Dilemma: Methodological Instrumentalism Refuted -- 2. Logical Indispensability and Positive Inductive Relevance -- 3. Logical Indispensability and Rules of Acceptance -- 10. Linguistic Variance in Inductive Logic -- 1. Linguistic Invariance and Linguistic Variance -- 2. Probability Kinematics -- 3. Goodman’s New Riddle of Induction -- 11. Towards a Non-Inductivist Logic of Induction -- 1. Deductivism and Inductivism -- 2. Hypothetico-Deductive and Hypothetico-Inductive Inference -- 3. The Atheoretical Thesis -- 4. Converse Deduction and Indirect Support -- 5. Conjectures.
    Abstract: Conceptual change and its connection to the development of new seien­ tific theories has reeently beeome an intensively discussed topic in philo­ sophieal literature. Even if the inductive aspects related to conceptual change have already been discussed to some extent, there has so far existed no systematic treatment of inductive change due to conceptual enrichment. This is what we attempt to accomplish in this work, al­ though most of our technical results are restricted to the framework of monadic languages. We extend Hintikka's system of inductive logic to apply to situations in which new concepts are introduced to the original language. By interpreting them as theoretica1 concepts, it is possible to discuss a number of currently debated philosophical and methodological problems which have previously escaped systematic and exact treatment. For instance, the role which seientific theories employing theoretical con­ cepts may play within inductive inference can be studied within this framework. From the viewpoint of seientific realism, sueh a study gives outlines for a theory of what we call hypothetico-induetive inference. Some parts of this work which are based on Hintikka's system of in­ ductive logic are fairly technical. However, no previous knowledge of this system is required, but, in general, acquaintance with the basic ideas of elementary logic and probability theory is suffieient. This work is part of a project, originated by Professors Jaakko Hintikka and Raimo Tuomela, concerning the role of theoretical concepts in science.
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    Abstract: I: Logic -- Matters of Relevance -- Notions of Relevance. Comments on Leblanc’s Paper -- II: Semantics -- Translation and Reduction -- A Program for the Semantics of Science -- III: Erotetics -- S-P Interrogatives -- IV: Philosophy of Mathematics -- Foundations as a Branch of Mathematics -- Naturalism in Mathematics. Comments on Hatcher’s Paper -- V: Philosophy of Science -- Deductive Explanation of Scientific Laws -- VI: Metaphysics -- Concepts of Randomness -- VII: Ethics -- The Logic of Conditional Obligation -- On Evaluating Deontic Logics. Comments on van Fraassen’s Paper -- VIII: Legal Philosophy -- The Intuitive Background of Normative Legal Discourse and Its Formalization -- IX: History of Philosophy -- Plato’s Phaedo Theory of Relations.
    Abstract: The papers that follow were read and discussed at the first Symposium on Exact Philosophy. This conference was held at Montreal on November 4th and 5th, 1971, to celebrate the sesquicentennial of McGill University and establish the Society for Exact Philosophy. The expression 'exact philosophy' is taken to signify mathematical phi­ losophy, i.e., philosophy done with the explicit help of mathematical logic and mathematics. So far the expression denotes an attitude rather than a fully blown discipline: it intends to convey the intention to try and pro­ ceed in as exact a manner as we can in formulating and discussing phi­ losophical problems and theories. The kind of philosophy we wish to practice and promote is disciplined rather than wild, systematic rather than disconnected, and capable of being argued over rather than oracular. We believe that even metaphysics, notoriously riotous, can be subjected to the control of logic and mathematics. Even the history of philosophy, notoriously unsystematic, can benefit from an exact reconstruction of some classical ideas.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Text and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 5
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    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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    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: 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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    ISBN: 9789401025195
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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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    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: 9789401026567
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 13
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 13
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    Abstract: Perception and Philosophy Science -- (1) Nature of a Perceptual Theory -- (2) The Psychophysical Law -- (3) Perception of Light and Color -- (4) Perception of Voice and Music -- (5) Theory of Space and Time -- (6) Statistical Theory of Fields -- (7) The Problem of the Unity of Physics -- (8) Nature of a Physical Theory -- (9) A Theory of Psycho-social Evolution -- The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics -- Defense of a Non-Conventionalist Interpretation of Classical Mechanics -- Comments on C. A. Hooker: Systematic Realism -- The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities -- Comments on ‘The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities’ -- Comments on ‘The Formal Representation of Physical Quantities’ -- The Labyrinth of Quantum Logics -- Ontic Commitments of Quantum Mechanics -- Comments on ‘Ontic Commitments of Quantum Mechanics’ -- Quantum Logic and Classical Logic: Their Respective Roles -- Implications of a New Axiom Set for Quantum Logic -- Two Types of Continuity -- General Relativity — Some Puzzling Questions -- Personal Remembrance of Albert Einstein -- The Controversy Concerning the Law of Causality in Contemporary Physics -- Topical Table of Contents -- (1) Causality -- (2) Relevance of Probability -- (3) Teleology in Physics? -- (4) Probability and Free Will.
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    ISBN: 9789401026222
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    Edition: Second, enlarged edition
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 12
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 12
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Philosophical Problems of the Metric of Space and Time -- 1. Spatial and Temporal Congruence in Physics: A Critical Comparison of the Conceptions of Newton, Riemann, Poincaré, Eddington, Bridgman, Russell, and Whitehead -- 2. The Significance of Alternative Time Metrizations in Newtonian Mechanics and in the General Theory of Relativity -- 3. Critique of Reichenbach’s and Carnap’s Philosophy of Geometry -- 4. Critique of Einstein’s Philosophy of Geometry -- 5. Empiricism and the Geometry of Visual Space -- 6. The Resolution of Zeno’s Metrical Paradox of Extension for the Mathematical Continua of Space and Time -- II. Philosophical Problems of the Topology of Time and Space -- 7. The Causal Theory of Time -- 8. The Anisotropy of Time -- 9. The Asymmetry of Retrodictability and Predictability, the Compossibility of Explanation of the Past and Prediction of the Future, and Mechanism vs. Teleology -- 10. Is There a “Flow” of Time or Temporal “Becoming”? -- 11. Empiricism and the Three-Dimensionality of Space -- III. Philosophical Issues in the Theory of Relativity -- 12. Philosophical Foundations of the Special Theory of Relativity, and Their Bearing on Its History -- 13. Philosophical Appraisal of E. A. Milne’s Alternative to Einstein’s STR -- 14. Has the General Theory of Relativity Repudiated Absolute Space? -- 15. Philosophical Critique of Whitehead’s Theory of Relativity -- Bibliography for the First Edition -- IV. Supplementary Studies 1964–1973 -- 1. Supplement to Part I -- 16. Space, Time and Falsifiability (First Installment) -- 17. Can We Ascertain the Falsity of a Scientific Hypothesis? -- 18. Can an Infinitude of Operations Be Performed in a Finite Time? -- 2. Supplement to Part II -- 19. Is the Coarse-Grained Entropy of Classical Statistical Mechanics an Anthropomorphism? -- 3. Supplement to Part III -- 20. Simultaneity by Slow Clock Transport in the Special Theory of Relativity -- 21. The Bearing of Philosophy on the History of the Special Theory of Relativity -- Chppter 22. General Relativity, Geometrodynamics and Ontology -- Index of Personal Names — Compiled by Mr. Theodore C. Falk -- Index of Subjects — Compiled by Mr. Theodore C. Falk.
    Abstract: It is ten years since Adolf Griinbaum published the first edition of this book. It was promptly recognized to be one of the few major works in the philosophy of the natural sciences of this generation. In part, this is so because Griinbaum has chosen a problem basic both to philosophy and to the natural sciences - the nature of space and time; and in part, this is so because he so admirably exemplifies that Aristotelian devotion to the intimate and mutual dependence of actual science and philosophical understanding. More than this, however, the quality of his work derives from his achievement in combining detail with scope. The problems of space and time have been among the most difficult in contemporary and classical thought, and Griinbaum has been responsible to the full depth and complexity of these difficulties. This revised and enlarged second edition is a work in progress, in the tradition of reflective analysis of modern science of such figures as Ehrenfest and Reichenbach. In publishing this work among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, we hope to contribute to and encourage that broad tradition of natural philosophy which is marked by the close collaboration of philoso­ phers and scientists. To this end, we have published the proceedings of our Colloquia, of meetings and conferences here and abroad, as well as the works of single authors.
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    ISBN: 9789401025485
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (294p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowlegde, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 52
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 52
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Linguistic Relativity -- Something About Conceptual Schemes -- Prima Facie Generalizations -- Change of Belief or Change of Meaning? -- Conceptual Change -- Evidence, Meaning and Conceptual Change: A Subjective Approach -- Logic and Conceptual Change -- Some Comments on Professor Körner’s Paper -- Conceptual Structures -- Theory Change in Science -- Explanation and Reference -- Referential Indeterminacy: A Response to Professor Putnam -- On Semantically Relevant Whatsits: A Semantics for Philosophy of Science -- General Bibliography.
    Abstract: During Hallowe'en of 1970, the Department of Philosophy of the Univer­ sity of Western Ontario held its annual fall colloquium at London, On­ tario. The general topic of the sessions that year was conceptual change. The thirteen papers composing this volume stem more or less directly from those meetings; six of them are printed here virtually as delivered, while the remaining seven were subsequently written by invitation. The programme of the colloquium was to have consisted of major papers delivered by Professors Wilfrid Sellars, Stephan Korner, Paul Ziff and Hilary Putnam, with shorter commentary thereupon by Professors Robert Binkley, Joseph Ullian, Jerry Fodor and Robert Barrett, respec­ tively. And that is the way it happened, with one important exception: at the eleventh hour, Sellars and Binkley exchanged roles. This gave Binkley the rather unusual and challenging task of providing a suitable Sellarsian answer to a question not of his own asking - for Binkley's paper was written under Sellars' original title. Sellars' own contribution to the vo­ lume is perhaps more nearly what he would have presented as main speaker than a direct response to Binkley. However, it has seemed best, on balance, to attempt no further stylistic accommodation of the one paper to the other; their mutual philosophical relevance will be evident in any case. The editors would here like to extend special thanks to both Sellars and Binkley for their extraordinary efforts under the circumstances.
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    ISBN: 9789401025010
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    Edition: Revised and Enlarged English Edition
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 9
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 9
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Logic ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: One/the Logical Theory of Scientific Knowledge -- Two/Signs -- Three/Terms -- Four/Sentences -- Five/Sentential Logic -- Six/the General Theory of Logical Entailment -- Seven/Formalization of the General Theory of Logical Entailment -- Eight/Subject-Predicate Structures -- Nine/Empirical And Abstract Objects -- Ten/Sentences with Quantifiers -- Eleven/Theory of Quantifiers -- Twelve/Conditional Sentences -- Thirteen/Theory of Terms -- Fourteen/Classes -- Fifteen/ Existential Logic -- Sixteen/ Modal Sentences -- Seventeen/ Relations -- Eighteen/ Physical Entailment -- Nineteen/ Theories -- Twenty/ Logic and Ontology -- Twenty-One/ the Universality of Logic -- Conclusion -- Append -- Proof of the Basic Theorems of the Theory of Logical -- Entailment -- G. A. Smirno -- Independence in the Systems of Logical Entailment -- E. A. Sidorenko -- Some Variants of the Systems of Logical Entailment -- E. A. Sidorenko -- Completeness of the Systems of Logical Entailment -- A. M. Fedina -- Completeness of Systems of Degenerate Entailment and Quasi-Entailment -- L. A. Bobrova -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science are devoted to symposia, con­ gresses, colloquia, monographs and collected papers on the philosophical foundations of the sciences. It is now our pleasure to include A. A. Zi­ nov'ev's treatise on complex logic among these volumes. Zinov'ev is one of the most creative of modern Soviet logicians, and at the same time an innovative worker on the methodological foundations of science. More­ over, Zinov'ev, although still a developing scholar, has exerted a sub­ stantial and stimulating influence upon his colleagues and students in Moscow and within other philosophical and logical circles of the Soviet Union. Hence it may be helpful, in bringing this present work to an English-reading audience, to review briefly some contemporary Soviet investigations into scientific methodology. During the 1950's, a vigorous new research program in logic was under­ taken, and the initial published work -characteristic of most Soviet pub­ lications in the logic and methodology of the sciences - was a collection of essays, Logical Investigations (Moscow, 1959). Among the authors, in addition to Zinov'ev himself, were the philosophers A. Kol'man and P. V. Tavanec, and the mathematicians and linguists, S. A. Janovskaja, A. S. Esenin-Vol'pin, S. K. Saumjan, G. N. Povarov.
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    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
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    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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    ISBN: 9789401028936
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (307p) , 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 43
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    Abstract: A / History of Physics -- I. Contradiction and Uplation in the Evolution of Physics (1960) -- II. Evolutionary Laws and Perspectives for Physics (1967) -- III. The Huygens-Leibniz-Mach Criticism in the Light of Present Knowledge (1967) -- IV. Max Planck and the Rise of Quantum Theory (1960) -- B / Logic of Physics — General -- V. On the Relation between Mathematics and Physics and Its Historical Development (1967) -- VI. Mathematics as Logical Syntax — A Method to Formalize the Language of a Physical Theory (1938) -- VII. Is the Frequency Limit Interpretation of Probability a Meaningful Idealization? (1946) -- VIII. Problems of Probability Theory in the Light of Quantum Mechanics (1938/39) -- IX. Equivalent Representations and Inequivalent Interpretations in Physics (1965) -- X. Material Structure and Mathematical Structure (1967) -- XI. Space-times and State Spaces (1967) -- XII. Intertheory Relations I — General Problems (1970) -- C / Foundational Studies — Special -- XIII. On the Logic of ‘Inertial Frame’ and ‘Mass’ (1966) -- XIV. The Lorentz Group: Axiomatics — Generalizations — Alternatives (1966) -- XV. Einstein’s Theories and the Critics of Newton — Inter-theory Relations II (1968) -- XVI. The Logic of Complementarity and the Foundation of Quantum Theory (1936) -- XVII. The Paradoxes of Quantum Physics and the Complementary Mode of Description (undated) -- XVIII. Quantum Theory and Logic (1950) -- XIX. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1967) -- XX. Quantum Theory and Philosophy (1960) -- XXI. A Second Foundation for Quantum Theory (1961) -- XXII. Intertheory Relations (III): Quantum Mechanics and Classical Point Mechanics (1970) -- D / In Memoriam Hans Reichenbach -- XXIII. Hans Reichenbach and the Berlin School (1963) -- XXIV. Two Notes on H. Reichenbach’s Logic of Quantum Mechanics (1945).
    Abstract: In selecting the papers for this volume I have excluded all physics papers proper. I have further omitted all book rev.iews. Instead, I have included two papers not published previously; they are marked by an asterisk (*) in the table of contents. Since many of the papers were occasioned by Symposia or similar gatherings their chronological order is rather accidental. Hence I have tried to group the papers thematically into four parts. Within each part the order of sequence is from the more general to the more special, or from a more popular to a more technical treatment. The same principle has been applied to the sequential order of the parts. The foundational papers on quantum mechanics have been arranged in a somewhat dif­ ferent manner. Chapters XVI-XIX are concerned with the logic of complementarity while in Chapters XX-XXII a more radical recon­ ceptualization is carried out. Two of the older papers (Chapters VI and VIII) have been revised to bring them more into line with present terminology. Other papers have been corrected by additions and omissions. Additions are marked by square brackets [ ], while double square brackets [[ II signify omis­ sions or parts to be omitted. Hence [[A]] [B] means that 'A' should be replaced by 'B'. The heading of one paper (Chapter XX) has been changed to make it more descriptive.
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Inaugural Lecture -- Phenomenology Reflects upon Itself. II: The Ideal of the Universal Science: the Original Project of Husserl Reinterpreted with Reference to the Acquisitions of Phenomenology and the Progress of Contemporary Science. -- Address (Professor Klibansky on April 10, 1969) -- I/The Later Husserl -- What is New in Husserl’s ‘Crisis’ -- Ingarden’s Criticism of Husserl -- On Understanding Idea and Essence in Husserl and Ingarden -- Discussion -- Phenomenologico-Psychological and Transcendental Reductions in Husserl’s ‘Crisis’ -- Constitutive Phenomenology and Intentional Objects -- Hyletic Data -- Discussion -- The Material Apriori and the Foundation for its Analysis in Husserl -- The Actual State of the Work on Husserl’s Inedita: Achievements and Projects -- Discussion -- II/Phenomenology and Hermeneutics -- The Science of the Life-World -- The Sciences of Man and the Theory of Husserl’s Two Attitudes -- Repetition in Gadamer’s hermeneutics -- Ingarden on Language and Ontology (A Comparison with some Trends in Analytic Philosophy) -- Discussion -- III /Phenomenology and Natural Science -- Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology as Foundation of Natural Science -- Towards a Developmental Phenomenology: Transcendental-Ego and Body-Ego -- Body, Consciousness, and Violence -- The Concept of Horizon -- Intentionality and Transcendence: On the Constitution of Material Nature -- Discussion -- Complementary Essays -- A Note on the Doctrine of Noetic-Noematic Correlation -- The Meaning of Husserl’s Idealism in the Light of His Development -- Life-World Constitution of Propositional Logic and Elementary Predicate Logic -- Annex -- Roman Ingarden’s Letter to Edmund Husserl.
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    ISBN: 9789401029162
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 10
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 10
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. The Concept of ‘Science’ as Cognitive Activity -- 1. Aspects of the Concept of Science -- 2. The Goals of Science as Cognitive Activity sui generis -- 3. Scientific Cognition as the Solution of Problems -- II. On the Approach to Models of Scientific Procedures -- 1. Scientific Procedures as Operations with Data -- 2. The Metatheoretical Character of the Analysis of Scientific Procedures -- 3. The Finitistic Approach -- III. The Empirical Basis and the Analysis of ‘Universe of Discourse’ -- 1. Schemata of the Analysis -- 2. The Communication Model and the Problem of Scientific Empiricism -- 3. The Universe and the Language Used -- IV. Concepts of The Language of Science -- 1. Names, Descriptions and Statements -- 2. Predicates -- 3. The Classification of Predicates in the Language of Science: Qualitative, Comparative and Quantitative Predicates -- 4. The Classification of Predicates: Empirical, Dispositional and Theoretical Predicates -- 5. Similarity and Identification of Objects -- V. Scientific Explanation -- 1. Problem-Solving Situations and Questions in Science -- 2. The Concepts of ‘Explanation’ and ‘Scientific Explanation’ -- 3. The Typology of Scientific Explanation -- 4. Scientific Laws and Their Evaluation -- 5. Scientific Explanation and Decision-Making -- 6. Explanation and Prediction.
    Abstract: For a decade, we have admired the incisive and broadly informed works of Ladislav Tondl on the foundations of science. Now it is indeed a pleasure to include this book among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. We hope that it will help to deepen the collaborative scholar­ ship of scientists and philosophers in Czechoslovakia with the English­ reading scholars of the world. Professor Ladislav Tondl was born in 1924, and completed his higher education at the Charles University iIi Prague. His doctorate was granted by the Institute of Information Theory and Automation. He was a professor and scientific research worker at the Institute for the Theory and Methodology of Science, which was a component part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Tondl's principal fields of interest are the methodology of the empirical and experimental sciences, logical semantics, and cybernetics. For many years, he collaborated with Professor Albert Perez and others at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation in Prague, and he has undertaken fruitful collaboration with logicians in the Soviet and Polish schools, and been influenced by the Finnish logicians as well, among them Jaakko Hintikka. We list below a selection of his main publications. Perhaps the most accessible in presenting his central conception of the relationship between modem information theory and the methodology of the sciences is his 1965 paper with Perez, 'On the Role of Information Theory in Certain Scientific Procedures'.
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 7
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 7
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    Abstract: I. Bergson’s Biological Theory of Knowledge -- 1. The Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge: Herbert Spencer -- 2. The Intermediate Stage: Helmholtz, Mach and Poincaré -- 3. Bergson’s Amendment of the Classical Biological Theory of Knowledge -- 4. Why Mechanical-Pictorial Models Failed -- 5. The Contrast Between Technical Control and Intellectual Insight: The Persistent Influence of Macroscopic Imagery -- 6. Limitations of Panmathematism -- 7. Negative aspects of Bergson’s Epistemology — Its Relations to Bachelard, Bridgman and Empirio-Criticism -- 8. Bergson, Reichenbach and Piaget -- 9. Logic of Solid Bodies from Plato to Quine -- II. Bergson’s Theory of Duration -- 1. The Meaning of Immediacy -- 2. Content of the Bergsonian Intuition -- 3. The Dynamic Continuity of Duration -- 4. The Incompleteness of Duration: Novelty and its Denials -- 5. Superfluity of Succession in the Deterministic Schemes -- 6. The Leibniz-Fouillé Argument for the Compatibility of Succession and Determinism -- 7. The Heterogeneity of Duration: Lovejoy-Ushenko’s Objections -- 8. The Deeper Meaning of the ‘Indivisible Heterogeneity’ of Duration -- 9. The Unreality of Durationless Instants: Becoming Not MatheMatically Continuous -- 10. The Inadequacy of the Atomistic Theory of Time -- 11. The Unity and Multiplicity of Duration: Bergson, Russell and Brouwer -- 12. Immortality of the Past: Bergson and Whitehead -- 13. James’s and Bergson’s Views of the Past Compared -- 14. The Irreversibility of Duration: The Comments of Royce and Ingarden -- 15. Duration as Concrete Universal. Bergson and Croce -- 16. An Outline of Bergon’s Philosophy of Mathematics -- III. Bergson’s Theory of the Physical World and its Relations to Contemporary Physics -- 1. The Reality of Duration in the Physical World and its Implications -- 2. Different Degrees of Temporal Span. Microcosmos as Micro-chronos -- 3. Two Fundamental Questions -- 4. The Rejection of the Cartesian Dogma of the Completely Extensionless Mind -- 5. The Correlation of Different Temporal Rhythms with Different Degrees of Extension -- 6. Juxtaposition as the Ideal Limit of Distended Duration -- 7. The Negation of Instantaneous Space in the Relativistic Physics -- 8. Bergson and Einstein. The Physical World as Extensive Becoming -- 9. Limitations and Usefulness of the Corpuscular Models -- 10. Change without Vehicle and Container. Fallacy of Simple Location -- 11. Limits of the Criticism of Simple Location: Contemporary Independence -- 12. The Indeterminacy of Microphysical Events. Bergson and Boutroux -- 13. Bergson and Louis De Broglie -- 14. Physical Events as Proto-Mental Entities. Bergson, White-head and Bohm -- 15 The Significance and the Limitations of Auditory Models. Bergson and Strawson -- 16. Concluding Remarks: the World of Laplace and the World of Bergson -- Appendix I. Russell’s Hidden Bergsonism -- Appendix II. Microphysical Indeterminacy and Free-Dom. Bergson and Peirce -- Appendix III. Bergson’s Thoughts on Entropy and Cosmogony -- Additional Selected Bibliography -- Extract from Bergson’s Letter -- Index of Names and Subjects.
    Abstract: Milic Capek has devoted his scholarship to the history and philosophy of modern physics. With impeccable care, he has mastered the epistemologi­ cal and scientific developments by working through the papers, treatises, correspondence of physicists since Kant, and likewise he has put his learning and critical skill into the related philosophical literature. Coming from his original scientific career with a philosophy doctorate from the Charles University in Prague, Capek has ranged beyond a narrowly defined philosophy of physics into general epistemology of the natural sciences and to the full historical evolution of these matters. He has ex­ pounded his views on these matters in a number of articles and, systema­ tically, in his book The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary PhYSiCS, published in 1961 and reprinted with two new appendices in 1969. His particular gift for many of his readers and students lies in the great period from the mid-nineteenth century through the foundations of the physics and philosophy of the twentieth, and within this spectacular time, Profes­ sor Capek has become a principal expositor and sympathetic critic of the philosophy of Henri Bergson. He joins a distinguished group of scholars -physicists and philosophers -who have been stimulated to some of their most profound and imaginative thought by Bergson's metaphysical and psychological work: Cassirer, Meyerson, de Broglie, Metz, Jankelevitch, Zawirski, and in recent years, Costa de Beauregard, Watanabe, Blanche, and others.
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    ISBN: 9789401181358
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    Series Statement: Tulane Studies in Philosophy 10
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    Abstract: Kant and Whitehead, and the Philosophy of Mathematics -- Whitehead on Symbolic Reference -- The Understanding of the Past -- Causal Efficacy and Continuity In Whitehead’s Philosophy -- Whitehead’s “Actual Occasion” -- The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne -- The Metaphysics of Whitehead’s Feelings.
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    ISBN: 9789401031424
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 8
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 8
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    Abstract: Symposium: Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation -- Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation -- Explanation and Relevance: Comments on James G. Greeno’s ‘Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation’ -- Remarks on Explanatory Power -- Symposium: Capacities and Natures -- Capacities and Natures -- Capacities and Natures: An Exercise in Ontology -- Fisk on Capacities and Natures -- Symposium: History of Science and its Rational Reconstruction -- History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions -- Notes on Lakatos -- Research Programmes and Induction -- Can We Use the History of Science to Decide Between Competing Methodologies? -- Inter-Theoretic Criticism and the Growth of Science -- Replies to Critics -- Contributed Papers -- I. Observation -- Observation -- Feyerabend’s Pragmatic Theory of Observation and the Comparability of Alternative Theories -- Observations as the Building Blocks of Science in 20th-Century Scientific Thought -- II. Philosophical Problems of Biology -- Functionalism and the Negative Feedback Model in Biology -- Some Problems with the Concept of ‘Feedback’ -- Articulation of Parts Explanation in Biology and the Rational Search for Them -- III. Equivalence, Analyticity, and In-Principle Confirmability -- Theoretical Realism and Theoretical Equivalence -- Theoretical Analyticity -- The Confirmation Machine -- IV. Probability, Statistics and Acceptance -- Unknown Probabilities, Bayesianism, and de Finetti’s Representation Theorem -- New Dimensions of Confirmation Theory II: The Structure of Uncertainty -- Cost-Benefit vs Expected Utility Acceptance Rules -- Material Conditions on Tests of Statistical Hypotheses -- V. Problems in Quantum Physics; Genetic Epistemology -- Tachyons, Backwards Causation, and Freedom -- The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox Reexamined -- The Significance of Piaget’s Researches on the Psychogenesis of Atomism -- VI. Theoretical Pluralism; Understanding; Methodological Agreement -- Method and Factual Agreement in Science -- VII. Induction and Reduction -- Dispositional Probabilities -- On the Relation of Neurological and Psychological Theories: A Critique of the Hardware Thesis -- ‘Self-supporting’ Inductive Arguments -- VIII. Scientific Theories: Comparison and Change -- Ontological and Terminological Commitment and the Methodological Commensurability of Theories -- Objectivity, Scientific Change, and Self-Reference -- A Logical Empiricist Theory of Scientific Change? -- IX. The Future of Philosophy of Science; Theory in the Social Sciences -- The Structure, Growth and Application of Scientific Knowledge: Reflections on Relevance and the Future of Philosophy of Science -- From Logical Systems to Conceptual Populations -- Two Kinds of Theory in the Social Sciences -- X. Relativity and Congruence -- Einstein and the Lorentz-Poincaré Theory of Relativity -- Competing Radical Translations: Examples, Limitations and Implications -- Is ‘Congruence’ A Peculiar Predicate?.
    Abstract: This book contains the papers presented at the second biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Boston in Fall, 1970. We have added the paper by Jaakko Hintikka which he was unable to present due to illness, and we have unfortunately not received the paper of Michael Scriven. Otherwise, these proceedings are complete so far as formal presentations. The meeting itself was dedicated to the memory of Rudolf Carnap. This great man and distinguished philosopher had died shortly before. The five talks from the session devoted to recollections of Professor Carnap are printed at the beginning of this book, and they are followed by eight other tributes and memories. We are particularly grateful to Wolfgang Stegmiiller for permitting us to include a translation of his eloge which was broadcast in Germany. The photographs were kindly contributed by Hannah Thost-Carnap. ROGER C. BUCK Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University ROBER T S. COHEN Boston Center for the Philosophy of Science, Boston University Photograph by Francis Schmidt, 1935 Photograph by Adya, 1962 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE v HOMAGE TO RUDOLF CARNAP XI Herbert Feigl, Carl G. Hempel, Richard C. Jeffrey, W. V. Quine, A. Shimony, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Herbert G. Bohnert, Robert S. Cohen, Charles Hartshorne, David Kaplan, Charles Morris, Maria Reichenbach, Wolfgang Stegmiiller SYMPOSIUM: THEORETICAL ENTITIES IN STATISTICAL EXPLANATION JAMES G. GREENO / Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation 3 WESLEY C. SALMON / Explanation and Relevance: Comments on James G.
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    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 38
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    Abstract: I / Philosophy of Science -- I. A Picture Theory of Theory-Meaning -- II. On Elementary Particle Theory -- III. Some Philosophical Aspects of Contemporary Cosmologies -- IV. Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy -- II / History of Science -- V. Leverrier: The Zenith and Nadir of Newtonian Mechanics -- VI. The Contributions of Other Disciplines to 19th Century Physics -- III / General Philosophy -- VII. On Being in Two Places at Once -- VIII. Copernicus’ Rôle in Kant’s Revolution -- IX. It’s Actual, so It’s Possible -- X. On Having the Same Visual Experiences -- XI. Mental Events Yet Again: Retrospect on Some Old Arguments -- IV / Logic -- XII. Imagining the Impossible -- XIII. On the Impossibility of Any Future Metaphysics -- XIV. Good Inductive Reasons -- XV. A Budget of Cross-Type Inferences, or Invention is the Mother of Necessity -- XVI. The Irrelevance of History of Science to Philosophy of Science -- XVII. The Idea of a Logic of Discovery -- V / Religion -- XVIII. The Agnostic’s Dilemma -- XIX. What I Don’t Believe -- VI / The Theory Of Flight -- Introduction, by Edward MacKinnon, S.J. -- XX. Lecture One: The Discovery of Air -- XXI. Lecture Two: The Shape of An Idea -- XXII. Lecture Three: The Idea of a Shape.
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    ISBN: 9789401032636
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 1
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    Abstract: A Model of Mind-Body Relation in Terms of Modular Logic (October 26, 1961) -- Comments -- Comments -- 2 The Relationship of Language to the Formation of Concepts Summary of Oral Presentation (November 30, 1961) -- 3 The Logical Structure of Physics (December 14, 1961) -- Discussion -- 4 Modal Logics I: Modalities and Intensional Languages (February 8. 1962) -- Comments -- Discussion -- 5 Modal Logics II: Toward a Formal Analysis of Cultural Objects (March 8, 1962) -- 6(a) Deterministic Interpretations of the Quantum Theory (March 27, 1962) -- 6(b) Operational Aspects of Hidden-Variable Quantum Theories — With a Postscript on The Impact of Recent Scientific Trends on Art (March 27, 1962) -- Comments -- 7 The Falsifiability of Theories: Total or Partial? A Contemporary Evaluation of the Duhem-Quine Thesis (April 26.1962) -- Comments -- 8(a) Perception and Language Summary of Oral Presentation (May 17, 1962) -- 8(b) Perception: Cause and Achievement Summary of Oral Presentation (May 17, 1962).
    Abstract: The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical questions of ontology and epistemology in a unique way, bringing to traditional conceptions the analytic apparatus of modern logic, and the new content and conceptual models of active scientific investigations. These sources are reflected in the present volume, which consists of the major portion of the papers presented to the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science in the academic year 1961-1962. There is no central theme nor any dominant approach in this colloquium. Initiated in 1960 as an inter-university interdisciplinary faculty group, the Colloqnium is intended to foster creative and regular exchange of research and opinion, to provide a forum for professional discussion in the philosophy of science, and to stimulate the development of academic programs in philosophy of science in the colleges and universities of metropolitan Boston. The base of the Colloquium is our philosophic and scientific community, as broad and heterodox as the academic, cultural and techno­ logical complex in and about this city. The Colloquium has been supported in its first full year, as an inter-institutional cooperative association, by a generous grant to Boston University from the U. S. National Science Foundation. We are most grateful for this help.
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Hallett, Garth [Rezension von: Hintikka, Jaakko, Information and Inference] 1972
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    Abstract: I. Information and Induction -- On Semantic Information -- Bayesian Information Usage -- Experimentation as Communication with Nature -- II. Information and Some Problems of the Scientific Method -- On the Information Provided by Observations -- Quantitative Tools for Evaluating Scientific Systematizations -- Qualitative Information and Entropy Structures -- III. Information and Learning -- Learning and the Structure of Information -- IV. New Applications of Information Concepts -- Surface Information and Depth Information -- Towards a General Theory of Auxiliary Concepts and Definability in First-Order Theories -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: In the last 25 years, the concept of information has played a crucial role in communication theory, so much so that the terms information theory and communication theory are sometimes used almost interchangeably. It seems to us, however, that the notion of information is also destined to render valuable services to the student of induction and probability, of learning and reinforcement, of semantic meaning and deductive inference, as~well as of scientific method in general. The present volume is an attempt to illustrate some of these uses of information concepts. In 'On Semantic Information' Hintikka summarizes some of his and his associates' recent work on information and induction, and comments briefly on its philosophical suggestions. Jamison surveys from the sub­ jectivistic point of view some recent results in 'Bayesian Information Usage'. Rosenkrantz analyzes the information obtained by experimen­ tation from the Bayesian and Neyman-Pearson standpoints, and also from the standpoint of entropy and related concepts. The much-debated principle of total evidence prompts Hilpinen to examine the problem of measuring the information yield of observations in his paper 'On the Information Provided by Observations'. Pietarinen addresses himself to the more general task of evaluating the systematizing ('explanatory') power of hypotheses and theories, a task which quickly leads him to information concepts. Domotor develops a qualitative theory of information and entropy. His paper gives what is probably the first axiomatization of a general qualitative theory of information adequate to guarantee a numerical representation of the standard sort.
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 1
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    Abstract: Die phänomenologische Selbstbesinnung. I: Der Leib und die Transzcndentalität in der gegenwärtigen phänomenologischen und psychiatrischen Forschung -- World-Constitution. Reflections on Husserl’s Transcendental Idealism -- Die Vier Begriffe der Transzendenz und das Problem des Idealismus in Husserl -- Intcntionality and Corporeity -- Intentionalität und Transzendenz Zur Konstitution der materiellen Natur -- Husserl’s Concept of Intcntionality -- The Concept of the Body in Transcendental Phenomenology and in Modern Biology -- On Knowing One’s Own Body -- Das Problem der ????? in der Philosophie Edmund Husserls -- Die Wissenschaften vom Menschen und Husserls Theorie von zwei Einstellungen -- Embodied Consciousness and the Human Spirit.
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    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 30
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    Abstract: 1 / Introduction -- 1.1. Program -- 1.2. Historical Background -- 1.3. Formal Preliminaries -- 2 / Individuals -- 2.1. Outline of Goodman’s Conception -- 2.2. Part-Whole Relations -- 2.3. Atomistic Universes of Individuals -- 2.4. The Leonard-Goodman Calculus of Individuals LGCI -- 2.5. The General Calculus CII of Atomistic Individuals -- 2.6. Finite Sums and Products: The Calculus CIII -- 2.7. Infinite Sums and Products: The Calculus CIIII -- 2.8. Non-Atomistic Universes of Individuals -- 2.9. The Non-Atomistic Calculus CIIV and some Extensions -- 2.10. Sequential Individuals and the Calculus of Individual Relations -- 3 / Ontological Commitment and Designata of Expressions -- 3.1. Ontological Implications of Theories -- 3.2. One-Place Predicates and their Extensions -- 3.3. Truth Conditions and Relations of Predication -- 3.4. Expressions of Relations and Operations -- 3.5. Denotationless Symbols and Nominalistic Models -- 4 / Bundles of Qualities, Qualities, and Concreta -- 4.1. Bundles of Qualities and their Calculus CB -- 4.2. Resemblance and its Calculus CR -- 4.3. Qualities and their Calculus CQ -- 4.4. Concreta -- 4.5. Further Problems and Conclusion -- Symbolic Notation -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: 1. 1. PROGRAM It will be our aim to reconstruct, with precision, certain views which have been traditionally associated with nominalism and to investigate problems arising from these views in the construction of interpreted formal systems. Several such systems are developed in accordance with the demand that the sentences of a system which is acceptable to a nominalist must not imply the existence of any entities other than individuals. Emphasis will be placed on the constructionist method of philosophical analysis. To follow this method is to introduce the central notions of the subject-matter to be investigated into a system governed by exact rules. For example, the constructionist method of investigating the properties of geometric figures may consist in formulating a system of postulates and definitions which, together with the apparatus of formal logic, generates all necessary truths concerning geometric figures. Similarly, a constructionist analysis of the notion of an individual may take the form of an axiomatic theory whose provable assertions are just those which seem essential to the role played by the concept of an individual in system­ atic contexts. Such axiomatic theories gain in interest if they are supple­ mented by precise semantical rules specifying the denotation of all terms and the truth conditions of all sentences of the theory.
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    ISBN: 9789401033053
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Viganò, Mario [Rezension von: Weingartner, Paul, Induction, Physics, and Ethics, Proceedings and discussions of the Salzburg Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science] 1971
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    Abstract: Section I/Induction and Probability -- Initial Probabilities: A Prerequisite for any Valid Induction -- Discussion of Bruno de Finetti’s Paper ‘Initial Probabilities: A Prerequisite for any Valid Induction’ -- Linguistically Invariant Inductive Logic -- Comments on ‘Linguistically Invariant Inductive Logic’ by Ian Hacking -- Logical Probability, Mathematical Statistics, and the Problem of Induction -- Statistics, Induction, and Lawlikeness: Comments on Dr. Vetter’s Paper -- Section II / Foundations of Physics -- New Approach to Interpretation Problems of General Relativity by Means of the Splitting-Up-Formalism of Space-Time -- Comments on Professor Schmutzer’s Paper -- Simultaneity by Slow Clock Transport in the Special Theory of Relativity -- Foundations of Quantum Theory; Statistical Interpretation (Introductory talk) -- Comments on H. J. Groenewold ‘Foundations of Quantum Theory’ -- Intertheory Relations -- Problems Concerning Intertheory Relations -- Section III / Science and Ethics: The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist -- The Moral Responsibility of the Scientist -- Science and Responsibility -- The Relation of Modern Scientific Conceptions to the Human Image -- Science and Ethics -- Scientists and Ethics — A Case History -- Modern Science and Social Responsibility -- Index of Names.
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 6
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Ernst Mach — His Life as a Teacher and Thinker -- On Mach’s Contributions to the Analysis of Sensations -- Mach’s Contribution to the Development of Gas Dynamics -- On Mach’s Curiosity about Shockwaves -- Ernst Mach and Contemporary Physics -- The Genesis of Mach’s Early Views on Atomism -- Mathematical Implications of Mach’s Ideas: Positivistic Geometry, The Clarification of Functional Connections -- Ernst Mach: Physics, Perception and the Philosophy of Science -- Mach, Einstein and the Search for Reality -- Mach’s Principle and Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation -- Appendices -- A. The Importance of Ernst Mach’S Philosophy of Science for Our Times -- B. Ernst Mach and the Unity of Science -- C. Ernst Mach and the Empiricist Conception of Science -- D. Ernst Mach: Biographical Data -- E. Ernst Mach: Bibliography -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., 27 December 1966, a symposium was held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Ernst Mach, the physicist who was vitally concerned about philosophical foundations. It was arranged by Section B on Physics, and co-sponsored by Section L on the History and Philosophy of Science, as well as by the History of Science Society. Dr. Allen W. Astin, Vice-President of the Association and Director of the National Bureau of Standards, presided. Representing the Austrian ambassador, Dr. Ernst Lemberger, a few opening remarks on his behalf were made by Dr. Walter Hietsch. Also present was Dr. Ernest A. Lederer, a grandson of Ernst Mach. The contributors, to the symposium, mostly physicists, represented different backgrounds and differing points of view; they presented their review of Mach's work primarily in the light of subsequent developments. They all, however, share a common interest in the life and works of Ernst Mach. Two of them, Otto BlUh and Peter G. Bergmann, received their doctoral degrees in theoretical physics from the University of Prague. Karl Menger received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Vienna (he is responsible for the latest edition [1960] of Mach's celebrated The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of its Development, for which he prepared a new Introduction).
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