Models Representation and the Scientific Understanding
Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensive intelligence, at once imaginative and rigorous, analytic and historical. He is a philosopher's philosopher, but also Everyman's....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1979, 1979
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1979 |
| 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:
- 1. The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism (1966)
- 2. Reduction, Explanation and Ontology (1962)
- 3. Models, Metaphysics and the Vagaries of Empiricism (1965)
- 4. Metaphysics as Heuristic for Science (1965)
- 5. Matter, Action and Interaction (1973)
- 6. Towards a Critical Materialism (1971)
- 7. The Relation Between Philosophy of Science and History of Science (1977)
- 8. Telos and Technique: Models as Modes of Action (1968)
- 9. From Praxis to Logos: Genetic Epistemology and Physics (1971)
- 10. Pictures, Representation, and the Understanding (1972)
- 11. Perception, Representation, and the Forms of Action: Towards an Historical Epistemology (1973)
- 12. Rules and Representation: The Virtues of Constancy and Fidelity Put in Perspective (1978)
- 13. Action and Passion: Spinoza’s Construction of a Scientific Psychology (1973)
- 14. Nature, Number and Individuals: Motive and Method in Spinoza’s Philosophy (1978)
- 15. Hume’s Concept of Identity and the Principium Individuationis (1961)
- 16. Diderot and the Development of Materialist Monism (1953)
- 17. Art and Technology: Conflicting Models of Education? The Uses of a Cultural Myth (1973)
- 18. Art as Humanizing Praxis (1976)
- Name Index