Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum

To celebrate Adolf Griinbaum's sixtieth birthday by offering him this bouquet of essays written for this purpose was the happy task of an autonomous Editorial Committee: Wesley C. Salmon, Nicholas Rescher, Larry Laudan, Carl G. Hempel, and Robert S. Cohen. To present the book within the Boston...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cohen, Robert S. (Editor), Laudan, R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Geometry and Semantics: An Examination of Putnam’s Philosophy of Geometry
  • The Epistemological Status of Recent Developments in Psychoanalytic Theory
  • The Theory of Your Dreams
  • Valuation and Objectivity in Science
  • Simultaneity and Conventionality
  • The Demise of the Demarcation Problem
  • Grünbaum on Determinism and the Moral Life
  • The Unpredictability of Future Science
  • Freud’s Early Theories of Hysteria
  • Clinical Trials: The Validation of Theory and Therapy
  • Reflections on the Philosophy of Bohr, Heisenberg, and Schrödinger
  • Zeno’s Paradox of Measure
  • Special Relativity from Measuring Rods
  • Causality and Spacetime Structure in Relativity
  • Calibration: A Frequency Justification for Personal Probability
  • Bibliography of Adolf Grünbaum
  • Index of Names