Philosophy and the many faces of science /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c1998. |
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| Description: | xiv, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CPS publications in philosophy of science |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4413155 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Gerald J. Massey
- Introduction / Dionysios Anapolitanos, Aristides Baltas and Stavroula Tsinorema
- 1. Understanding and Reference / Diego Marconi
- 2. On the Importance of Knowing What One Is Talking About / Jonathan Berg
- 3. Frege's Logicist Platonism / Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
- 4. Knowledge by "Symbolic Constructions" / Ulrich Majer
- 5. Indiscriminate Confirmation and Relevance Logic / Werner Stelzner
- 6. Explanation and Mechanism: Reflections on the Ontic Conception of Explanation / John Forge
- 7. Choice, Time, and Methodology in Peirce's Philosophy of Nature / Helmut Pape
- 8. Chance and Explanation in Peirce's Cosmology / Ruth Manor
- 9. Creative Discovery Processes / Aharon Kantorovitch
- 10. The Hermeneutics of Scientific Discovery (A Comment on Aharon Kantorovich) / Dimitri Ginev
- 11. Theory and Experiment in the Study of Brownian Motion and Radioactivity / Jan von Plato
- 12. How to Learn from Experiments / Manfred Stoeckler
- 13. Meaningless Numbers / Nicholas Rescher
- 14. What, if Anything, Is an Experiment in Mathematics? / Jean Paul von Bendegem
- 15. Epistemological Aspects of the Application of Mathematics to Itself / Jean-Pierre Marquis
- 16. The Rise of Scientific Philosophy Revisited / Ulrich Roseberg
- 17. Models and Reality: An Historical Approach / Werner Diederich
- 18. Scientific Realism and History of Science: A Comment / Barbara Tuchanska
- 19. Methodological Relativism in the History of Science / Barbara D. Massey
- 20. Science and Culture: On the Logic of the Theory of Culture / Oswald Schwemmer
- 21. Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Mechanics, Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind / Klaus Mainzer
- 22. Does Mind Matter? Artificial Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind / Roger Vergauwen
- 23. In the Theoretician's Laboratory: Thought Experimenting as Mental Modeling / Nancy J. Nersessian
- 24. The Failure of Freud's Explanation of Counter-Wish Dreams / Adolf Grunbaum.
