Philosophy of science

Years ago, prompted by Grize, Apostel and Papert, we undertook the study of functions, but until now we did not properly understand the relations between functions and operations, and their increasing interactions at the level of 'constituted functions'.

Science is a multifaceted, natural and historical phenomenon.

This book presents a perspective on the history of theoretical physics over the past two hundreds years.

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The year 1959 has been called The Centennial Year in view of the anniversary of the publication of The Origin of SPecies and the centenary of the births of many who later contributed much to the philosophy of the recent past, such as Samuel Alexander, Henri Bergson, John Dewey and Edmund Husser!

Dieses Buch soll ein Bericht über den Prozess Einstein sein.

Men of science are sometimes mistrustful of or at least impatient with philosophy.

For a decade, we have admired the incisive and broadly informed works of Ladislav Tondl on the foundations of science.

In selecting the papers for this volume I have excluded all physics papers proper.

Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Metaphysics has long been con- sidered by many as one of the most interesting, most rewarding of all his works.

Harold N.

This essay is, first, a theoretical and historical study of some classical scientific ways of studying human being in the world.

There remains only the obligation to thank those who have helped me with specific suggestions and the editors who have kindly granted permission to reprint material which first appeared in the pages of their journals.

The articles in this volume have been stimulated in two different ways.

The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at a sym- posium held at the University of Pennsylvania in December of 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.

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.

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In the last 25 years, the concept of information has played a crucial role in communication theory, so much so that the terms information theory and communication theory are sometimes used almost interchangeably.

The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical questions of ontology and epistemology in a unique way, bringing to traditional conceptions the analytic apparatus of modern logic, and the new content and conceptual models of active scientific investigations.

This book contains the papers presented at the second biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held in Boston in Fall, 1970.

Milic Capek has devoted his scholarship to the history and philosophy of modern physics.

1 In 1954 Karl Popper published an article attempting to show that the identification of the quantitative concept degree of confirmation with the quantitative concept degree of probability is a serious error.

The foundations of this edition were laid at the University of Bochum.

This third volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science contains papers which are based upon Colloquia from 1964 to 1966.

This monograph attempts to clarify one significant but much neglected aspect of Peirce's contribution to the philosophy of science.

It is ten years since Adolf Griinbaum published the first edition of this book.

The fundamental conceptions of twentieth-century physics have profoundly influenced almost every field of modern thought and activity.

Conceptual change and its connection to the development of new seien- tific theories has reeently beeome an intensively discussed topic in philo- sophieal literature.

The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos- ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971.

During Hallowe'en of 1970, the Department of Philosophy of the Univer- sity of Western Ontario held its annual fall colloquium at London, On- tario.

To mathematicians, mathematics is a happy game, to scientists a mere tool and to philosophers a Platonic mystery - or so the caricature runs.

This book deals with some of the current issues in the philosophy, methodology and foundations of physics.

This collection of essays deals with three clusters of problems in the philo- sophy of science: scientific method, conceptual models, and ontological underpinnings.

The papers that follow were read and discussed at the first Symposium on Exact Philosophy.

The present selection from the Wissenschaftslehre (Sulzbach 1837) of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) aims at giving a compact view of his main ideas in logic, semantics, epistemology and the methodology of science.

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science are devoted to symposia, con- gresses, colloquia, monographs and collected papers on the philosophical foundations of the sciences.

An occurrence is explained by being related to prior events through known laws.

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As official sponsors of the First International Conference in the History and Philosophy of Science, the two Divisions of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science owe a great deal to the University of Jyvliskyla and the 1973 Jyvliskylli Summer Festival for the extra- ordinarily generous hospitality they provided.

In pulling these essays together for inclusion in one volume I do not believe that I have done them violence.