Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science In Memory of Benjamin Nelson

Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science In Memory of Benjamin Nelson / edited by Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky.

This selection of papers that were presented (or nearly so!) to the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science during the seventies fairly re­ presents some of the most disturbing issues of scientific knowledge in these years. To the distant observer, it may seem that the defense of rational st...

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Other Authors: Cohen, Robert S. (Editor), Wartofsky, Marx W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1984.
Edition:1st ed. 1984.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 84
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Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Scientific Realism and Incommensurability: Some Criticisms of Kuhn and Feyerabend
  • How To Be a Good Philosopher of Science: A Plea for Empiricism in Matters Methodological [Commentary on Burian]
  • Feedback, Selection, and Function: A Reductionistic Account of Goal-Orientation
  • Philosophy of Science 2001
  • The Dethroning of the Philosophy of Science: Ideological and Technical Functions of the Metasciences
  • Comments on Jost Halfmann’s ‘Dethroning of the Philosophy of Science: Ideological and Technical Functions of the Metasciences’
  • Philosophy of Science and the Origin of Life
  • Sociobiology, Anti-Sociobiology, Epistemology, and Human Nature
  • Substance and Its Logical Significance
  • Tracking Down the Misplaced Concreton in the Neurosciences
  • Does Popper’s Conventionalism Contradict his Critical Rationalism? Objections against Popper in German Philosophy and Some Metacritical Remarks
  • How to Explore the History of Ancient Mathematics?
  • Nature on Trial: The Case of the Rooster that Laid an Egg
  • Reflections on ‘Nature on Trial’
  • Toward the Vindication of Friedrich Engels
  • Bibliography of the Writings of Benjamin Nelson
  • Name Index.

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