The Methodological Unity of Science
The present volume collects some of the talks given at the Bertrand Russell Colloquium on Exact Philosophy, attached to the McGill University Foundations and Philosophy of Science Unit. It also includes a paper, on Bertrand Russell's method of philosophizing, read at the memorial symposium held...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1973, 1973
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1973 |
| Series: | Theory and Decision Library
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: Introduction
- Bertrand Russell’s regulae philosophandi
- II: Formal Science
- Mathematics and Ontology
- Gaps Between Logical Theory and Mathematical Practice
- III: Physics
- Relativity and Covariance
- IV: Biology
- Preliminary Remarks on the Organ-Function Relation
- The Logical Status of the Theory of Natural Selection and Other Evolutionary Controversies
- V: Psychology
- On Confusing ‘Measure’ with ‘Measurement’ in the Methodology of Behavioral Science
- Theoretical Concepts in Neobehavioristic Theories
- VI: Political Science
- Voting Rules and Coordination Problems
- VII: Historiography
- Historical Time and a New Conception of the Historical Sciences
- VIII: Ethics
- Some Problems of Ought-Utilitarianism, Valuation, and Deontic Logic
- IX: Metaphysics
- Human Freedom and 1568 Versions of Determinism and Indeterminism