History of Philosophy of Science New Trends and Perspectives
This volume includes in its special part recent contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view and of the highest topicality: the range of the topics is covering all fields in the philosophy of the science provided by authors from Europe, America and around the world focu...
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
| Series: | Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna Vienna Circle Society, Society for the Advancement of Scientific World Conceptions
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Table of Contents:
- On the Notion of “Law”
- Hume on Sense Impressions and Objects
- Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science
- Neo-Kantian Origins of Modern Empiricism: on the Relation between Popper and the Vienna Circle
- Concerning some Philosophical Reasons for the Recourse to Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the Thought of Newton and Leibniz
- Kant on the Apriority of Causal Laws
- Whewell and the Scientists: Science and Philosophy of Science in 19th Century Britain
- Brouwer’s Argument for the Unity of Scientific Theories
- The Role of Models in Boltzmann’s Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1903–1906)
- Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
- The Modern History of Scientific Explanation
- From the Values of Scientific Philosophy to the Value Neutrality of the Philosophy of Science
- Helmholtz’s Methodology of Sensory Science, the Zeichentheorie, and Physical Models of Hearing Mechanisms
- “Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen.” Alexius Meinong: Skizze seines Lebens, Amsterdam—Atlanta, GA: Rodopi 1999 (= Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie, Bd. 28).
- Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879–1909, Boston—Basel—Berlin: Birkhäuser 2000 (= Einstein Studies, vol. 8).
- Activities of the IVC
- Activities 2001
- Preview 2002
- Obituaries
- Marie Jahoda (1907–2001) (Christian Fleck)
- Wesley C. Salmon (1925–2001) (Maria Carla Galavotti)
- Paul Neurath (1911–2001) (Elisabeth Nemeth)
- Index of Names
- Physics without Pictures? The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach’s (Unnoticed) Middle-Way
- Ludwig Boltzmann’s Mathematical Argument for Atomism
- Hilbert’s Program to Axiomatize Physics (in Analogy to Geometry) and its Impact on Schlick, Carnap and other Members of the Vienna Circle
- Hopes and Disappointments in Hilbert’s Axiomatic “Foundations of Physics”
- Mathematical Physics and Philosophy of Physics (with Special Consideration of J. von Neumann’s Work)
- How Metaphysical is “Deepening the Foundations”? Hahn and Frank on Hilbert’s Axiomatic Method
- The EPR Experiment: a Prelude to Bohr’s Reply to EPR
- The French Connection: Conventionalism and the Vienna Circle
- Carnap on Logic and Experience
- Affmities between Fleck and Neurath
- Critical Rationalism, Logical Positivism, and thePost-structuralist Conundrum: Reconsidering the Neurath-Popper Debate
- Philosophy of Biology around the Vienna Circle: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philipp Frank
- B.F. Skinner and P.W. Bridgman: the Frustration of a Wahlverwandtschaft
- Sociology of Science, Rule Following and Forms of Life
- The Philosopher without Qualities
- The Poverty of “Constructivist” History (and Policy Advice)
- Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft. Otto Neurath und der erste Wiener Kreis, Wien—New York: Springer 2000.
- The Social Origins of Modern Science. Ed. by Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn and Robert S. Cohen. Dordrecht—Boston—London: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000 (= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 200).
- Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902–1945; Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna, Cambridge University Press 2000.
- Bolzano’s Philosophy and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics, Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam—Atlanta 2000.