Historiography

TIus is the second, and fmal, volume to derive from the exciting Kronberg conference of 1975, and to show the intelligent editorial care of Gerard Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson that was so evident in the first book, Progress and Rationality in Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol.

The following bibliography, arranged chronologically, permits the reader to follow the development of phenomenological studies in Italy in parallel with other, contemporary, cultural currents.

Logical empiricism - not to be confused with logical positivism (see pp.

Philosophically, there is a book which was a tremendous experience for me: Eino Kaila's hychology of the Person- ality _ His thesis that man lives strictly according to his needs - negative and positive - was shattering to me, but terribly true.

The humanist treatises presented here are only peripheral to the history of logic, but I think historians of logic may read them with interest, if perhaps with irritation.

Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems.

The decision to undertake this volume was made in 1971 at Lake Como during the Varenna summer school ofthe Italian Physical Society, where Professor Leon Rosenfeld was lecturing on the history of quantum theory.

It is my hope that this publication of a "e;lost"e; work by Galiani will interest scholars of many nations and disciplines.

The Traite des systemes is a milestone in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century.

To English-speaking historians, the author of this book, a Dutchman who for many years now finds his base at the University of Florida, became well known when his The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast, 158~I680 was published in 1972.

When the First World War ended, the political and economic system of prewar Europe lay in ruins.

In the spring of the year 1898 the long rivalry of Britain and France in West Africa reached a dangerous climax.

In this book I have attempted to analyze the dilemmas confronting the Polish government-in-exile in London during the Second World War.

Although the World War II efforts to develop nuclear weapons have inspired a very large literature, it struck us as noteworthy that virtually nothing existed in the form of firsthand accounts.

The work of Galileo has long been important not only as a foundation of modern physics but also as a model - and perhaps the paradigmatic model - of scientific method, and therefore as a leading example of scientific rationality.

The history of science is articulated by moments of discovery.

2 Peter of Aillyl wrote his Concepts and Insolubles, according to the best 3 estimate, in 1372.

It is fast becoming a cliche that scientific discovery is being rediscovered.

All students of mathematics know of Peano's postulates for the natural numbers and his famous space-filling curve, yet their knowledge often stops there.

The role Hans Hahn played in the Vienna Circle has not always been sufficiently appreciated.

It was probably Rousseau who first thought of dreams as ennobling experiences.

Plato's earthly life ended in the year 347 B.

Several ofthe themes of this study have been treated in earlier publica- tions, some by means of a general analysis and some through a detailed handling of problems raised by a particular theme or historian.

It has not been my intention to write a definitive study of appeasement.

by MICHEL FOUCAULT Everyone knows that in France there are few logicians but many historians of science; and that in the 'philosophical establishment' - whether teaching or research oriented - they have occupied a considerable position.

Wherever possible in this monograph I have referred to English trans- lations of works originally appearing in other languages.

Why should the story of a woman's role in the development of a scientific theory be written?

With this defense of intensional realism as a philosophical foundation for understanding scientific procedures and grounding scientific knowledge, James Fetzer provides a systematic alternative to much of recent work on scientific theory.

The nature of that transition to maturity [a transition involving "e;The acquisition of the sort of paradigm that identifies challenging puzzles, supplies clues to their solution, and guarantees that the truly clever practitioner will succeed"e;) deserves fuller discussion than it has received in this book, particularly from those concerned with the development of the contemporary social sciences.

Can it be true that Galilean studies will be without end, without conclusion, that each interpreter will find his own Galileo?

In English-speaking countries Victor Kraft is known principally for his account of the Vienna Circle.

The growing importance of the sciences in industrialised societies has been acknowledged by the increasing number of studies concerned with their development, change and control.

A number of years ago I began a project to derme and evaluate the impact of Buffon's Histoire naturelle on the science of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Charles Bonnet began his career as a naturalist, from an early age establishing a reputation as a careful observer.

Radio techniques were the nrst to lead astronomy away from the quiescent and limited Universe revealed by traditional observations at optical wave- lengths.

Only in fairly recent years has History and Philosophy of Science been recog- nised - though not always under that name - as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour.

them in his cheat-preface to Copernicus De Revolutionibus, but the main change in their import has been that whereas Osiander defended Copernicus, Mach and Duhem defended science.

The five review articles included in this volume were produced by the Dutch History Seminar of the University of London with the assistance of several Belgian and Dutch historians.

The theme chosen for the seventh conference of Dutch and British historians - relations between Church and State in the two countries since the Reformation - cannot pretend to any originality.