Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1966/1968

The fourth volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science consists mainly of papers which were contributed to our Colloquium during the past few years. The volume represents a wide range of interests in contem­ porary philosophy of science: issues in the philosophy of mind and of language, th...

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Other Authors: Cohen, Robert S. (Editor), Wartofsky, Marx W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1969, 1969
Edition:1st ed. 1969
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:
  • The Work and Influence of Wernicke
  • The Symptom Complex of Aphasia: A Psychological Study on an Anatomical Basis
  • Anatomy and the Higher Functions of the Brain
  • What is Perception?
  • Knowledge, Language and Rationality. Statement of the Problem
  • Comments: Language and Knowledge, by Stephen Toulmin
  • A Parallelism Between Wittgensteinian and Aristotelian Ontologies
  • Wolniewicz on Wittgenstein and Aristotle
  • The Computer as Gadfly
  • The Subject of Cultural Creation
  • Dialectical Materialism and the Philosophy of Praxis
  • Theory in History
  • Understanding and Participant Observation in Cultural and Social Anthropology
  • Comments: Theory and Practice of Participant-Observation, by Judith B. Agassi
  • Comments: Participant-Observation and the Collection of Data, by Sidney W. Mintz
  • Patterns of Use of Science in Ethics
  • Comments by Ruth Anna Putnam
  • Comments on Abraham Edel’s ‘Patterns of Use of Science in Ethics’, by John Ladd
  • On Empirical Knowledge
  • Comments on ‘On Empirical Knowledge’, by John Compton
  • Causal Connection
  • Some Comments to ‘Causal Connection’, by M. M. Schuster
  • Causality and the Notion of Necessity
  • Unity and Diversity in Science
  • On Methods of Refutation in Metaphysics