Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1966/1968
In this fifth volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, we have gathered papers about the logic and methods of the natural sciences. Along with the individual pieces, there are several which have originated as commentaries but are now supplementary contributions: those by Stachel and Pu...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1969, 1969
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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:
- Reply to Hilary Putnam’s ‘An Examination of Grünbaum’s Philosophy of Geometry’
- Causality Requirements and the Theory of Relativity
- Comments on ‘Causality Requirements and the Theory of Relativity’
- Matter, Space and Logic
- Is Logic Empirical?
- On the Philosophical Significance of the Correspondence Argument
- On Distinguishing Types of Measurement
- Hypotheses in Newton’s Philosophy
- The Role of Models in Theoretical Physics
- The Problem of Truth
- Symmetry in Physics
- Verification or Proof — An Undecided Issue?
- Ernst Mach’s Biological Theory of Knowledge
- Theories and Hypotheses in Biology: Theoretical Entities and Functional Explanation
- Comments on ‘Theories and Hypotheses in Biology’
- Comments: Theoretical Entities Versus Theories
- The Unity of Physics
- Supplementary Comments to Weizsäcker’s Paper