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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE - NEW TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES
Contributors
Anderson, Atten van, Brenner, Carus, Courtenay de, Dalla Chiara / Giuntini, Dickson, Ferrari, Fleck, Frasca-Spada, Friedman, Hacohen, Hardcastle, Hofer, Holton, Houkes, Koterski, Kvasz, Majer
Marek, McDonald, Milford, Neuber, Rédei, Sauer, Schäfer, Simonsen, Snyder, Stern, Sterrett, Stöltzner,
Stump, Uebel, Wilholt
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Table of Contents
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Editorial
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I
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MARIA LUISA DALLA CHIARA / ROBERTO GIUNTINI: On the Notion of “Law“
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1
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MARINA FRASCA-SPADA: Hume on Sense Impressions and Objects
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13
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MICHAEL FRIEDMAN: Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science
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25
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LOTHAR SCHÄFER: Neo-Kantian Origins of Modern Empiricism:
on the Relation between Popper and the Vienna Circle
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43
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II
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KENNETH SIMONSEN: Concerning some Philosophical Reasons for the
Recourse to Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the
Thought
of Newton and Leibniz
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57
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LANIER ANDERSON: Kant on the Apriority of Causal Laws |
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LAURA J. SNYDER: Whewell and the Scientists: Science and Philosophy
of Science
in 19th Century Britain |
81
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MARK VAN ATTEN: Brouwer's Argument for the Unity of Scientific Theories
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95
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NADINE DE COURTENAY: The Role of Models in Boltzmann's
Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1903 - 1906)
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103
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SUSAN G. STERRETT:, Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914
and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
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121
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GARY HARDCASTLE: The Modern History of Scientific Explanation
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137
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DAVID J. STUMP: From the Values of Scientific Philosophy to the Value
Neutrality of the Philosophy of Science
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147
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III
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PATRICK J. MCDONALD: Helmholtz's Methodology of Sensory Science,
the Zeichentheorie, and Physical Models of Hearing Mechanisms |
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MATTHIAS NEUBER: Physics without Pictures?
The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach's (Unnoticed) Middle-Way
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185
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TORSTEN WILHOLT:, Ludwig Boltzmann's Mathematical Argument for Atomism
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IV
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ULRICH MAJER: Hilbert's Program to Axiomatize Physics (in Analogy to Geometry)
and its Impact on Schlick, Carnap and other Members of the Vienna Circle |
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TILMAN SAUER: Hopes and Disappointments in Hilbert's Axiomatic
“Foundations of Physics”
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225
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MIKLÓS RÉDEI:, Mathematical Physics and Philosophy of Physics
(with Special Consideration of J. von Neumann's Work)
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MICHAEL STÖLTZNER: How Metaphysical is “Deepening the Foundations”?
Hahn and Frank on Hilbert's Axiomatic Method
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245
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MICHAEL DICKSON:, The EPR Experiment: a Prelude to Bohr's Reply to EPR
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263
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V
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ANASTASIOS BRENNER: The French Connection: Conventionalism and the Vienna Circle |
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WYBO HOUKES: Carnap on Logic and Experience
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ARTUR KOTERSKI:, Affinities between Fleck and Neurath
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MALACHI HACOHEN: Critical Rationalism, Logical Positivism, and the Post-structuralist Conundrum:
Reconsidering the Neurath-Popper Debate
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VERONIKA HOFER: Philosophy of Biology around the Vienna Circle:
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philipp Frank
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B. GENERAL PART
REPORT - DOCUMENTATION
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GERALD HOLTON: B.F. Skinner and P.W. Bridgman: the Frustration of a Wahlverwandtschaft |
335
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DAVID STERN: Sociology of Science, Rule Following
and Forms of Life |
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Review Essays
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A.W. CARUS: The Philosopher without Qualities
(Thomas Mormann, Rudolf Carnap. München: Beck 2000.)
(Rudolf Carnap, Untersuchungen zur allgemeinen Axiomatik,
edited by T. Bonk
and J. Mosterin. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2000.)
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THOMAS UEBEL: The Poverty of "Constructivist" History (and Policy
Advice)
(Steve Fuller, Thomas Kuhn. A Philosophical History for Our Time,
Chicago: University of
Chicago Press 2000.)
(Steve Fuller, The Governance of Science, Open University Press, Buckingham, UK 2000.)
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REVIEWS
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Thomas Uebel, Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft. Otto Neurath und der
erste Wiener Kreis
Wien-New York: Springer 2000
(Massimo Ferrari) |
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Edgar Zilsel, 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).
(Christian Fleck)
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396
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Malachi Hacohen, Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945; Politics
and Philosophy
in Interwar Vienna. Cambridge University Press 2000.
(Karl Milford)
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399
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Paul Rusnock, Bolzano's Philosophy and the Emergence of Modern
Mathematics,
Editions Rodopi B. V., Amsterdam-Atlanta 2000.
(Ladislav Kvasz)
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404
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Evelyn Dölling, "Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen." Alexius
Meinong: Skizze
seines Lebens. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi 1999
(= Studien zur
österreichischen Philosophie, Bd. 28).
(Johann Christian Marek)
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408
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Don Howard / John Stachel (eds.), Einstein: The Formative Years,
1879-1909.
Boston-Basel-Berlin: Birkhäuser 2000 (= Einstein Studies, vol. 8).
(Tilman Sauer)
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ACTIVITIES OF THE IVC |
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Activities 2001 |
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Preview 2002 |
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OBITUARIES |
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Marie Jahoda (1907-2001)
Christian Fleck
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425
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Wesley C. Salmon (1925-2001)
Maria Carla Galavotti
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429
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Paul Neurath (1911-2001)
Elisabeth Nemeth
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Index of Names |
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