Philosophy of science

This volume is a product of the international research project Theory of Explanation, which was funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS-HS).

A spatial logic is a formal language interpreted over any class of structures featuring geometrical entities and relations, broadly construed.

Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the nineteenth century's most important German natural scientists.

Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963.

In order for there to be knowledge, there must be at least some primary elements which may be called 'starting points'.

Philosophy of mathematics today has transformed into a very complex network of diverse ideas, viewpoints, and theories.

Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics.

JeffandImetwhenIwasagraduatestudentattheUniversityofMinnesotaandhewas a post doctoral fellow, first in the Chemistry Department, and then in the Center for Philosophy of Science.

This book is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Bern in thesummerof2002.

This study brings together ideas developed over many years in various lectures in an endeavour to clarify the concept of hermeneutic fore-structure of scientific research.

Empirical research often lacks theory.

Involving electricity, elasticity, thermodynamics and crystallography, several scientific traditions and approaches and leading physicists, the history of piezoelectricity provides an advantageous perspective on late nineteenth century physics and its development.

Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the study of abductive reasoning, providing logical foundations and a rich sample of pertinent applications.

The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981.

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.

Arthur Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition.

InSeptember2000theArcheCentrelauncheda ve-yearresearchprojecten- tled the Logical and Metaphysical Foundations of Classical Mathematics.

The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has had a turbulent career in philosophy of science.

Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical - critical realism and critical rationalism.

The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in Vienna in 2003, Cambridge and Vienna - Frank P.

An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley.

Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001.

Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era considered Kant's theory of intuition to be obsolete.

The transition from classical to modern physics in the ?

The second edition of this landmark encyclopaedia will contain approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe.

There has been a flare-up in interest in science policy and a key factor in this is the increased interest in analysing the role that research can play in informing policy making.

Arne Naess is considered one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

'Scientific advice to politics', the 'nature of expertise', and the 'relation between experts, policy makers, and the public' are variations of a topic that currently attracts the attention of social scientists, philosophers of science as well as practitioners in the public sphere and the media.

Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results.

Situated at the crossroads of nature and culture, physics and consciousness, cosmos and life, history - intimately conjoined with time - continues to puzzle the philosopher as well as the scientist.

The human being is today at the center of scientific, social, ethical and philosophical debates.

One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise of the natural sciences.

The pendulum is a universal topic in primary and secondary schools, but its full potential for learning about physics, the nature of science, and the relationships between science, mathematics, technology, society and culture is seldom realised.

In the 20th century philosophy of mathematics has to a great extent been dominated by views developed during the so-called foundational crisis in the beginning of that century.

As an academic discipline, the philosophy and history of science in Turkey was marked by two historical events: Hans Reichenbach's immigrating to Turkey and taking a post between 1933 and 1938 at Istanbul University prior to his tenure at UCLA, and Aydin Sayili's establishing a chair in the history of science in 1952 after having become the first student to receive a Ph.

The Invisibility of Chemistry DAVIS BAIRD South Carolina Honors College, University of South Carolina ERIC SCERRI Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles LEE MCINTYRE Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University BUTWHATAREALLTHOSECHEMISTSDOING?

One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by laws.

Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy.

The advance of scienti?

This volume owes its origin to the perception of a puzzling paradox.

The present volume originated in 2001 when we, together with our publishing editors at (then) Kluwer Academic Publishers, realized that the th following year the 50 volume of our journal Acta Biotheoretica would see the light.

The aim of the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, of which this is the first volume, is to take up anew the challenge of considering the scientific enterprise in its entirety in light of recent developments in logic and philosophy.

This study explores the theoretical relationship between Aristotle's theory of syllogism and his conception of demonstrative knowledge.

David Hilbert (1862-1943) was the most influential mathematician of the early twentieth century and, together with Henri Poincare, the last mathematical universalist.

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court?

In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traite de la Lumiere, containing his renowned wave theory of light.

The twentieth century is the period during which the history of Greek mathematics reached its greatest acme.

In Theoretical Knowledge an original conception of a structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge is proposed.