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This volume includes in its special part recent contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view and of the highest topicality: the range of the topics is covering all fields in the philosophy of the science provided by authors from Europe, America and around the world focussing on ancient , modern and contemporary periods in the development of the science philosophy. It represents a distinguished selection of the "Third Biennial Meeting of the History of Philosophy of Science Working Group" in Vienna (HOPOS 2000), which was jointly organised by Vienna Circle Institute at the University of Vienna. The audience of this proceedings is the scientific community and students at graduate level as well as postdocs in this interdisciplinary field of research.
The general part contains as usual a report/document section with special highlights - contributions on American philosophers (by Gerald Holton) and on Wittgenstein (David Stern) - as well as review articles and review related new publications and short documentation of Vienna Circle Institute's activities.
List of contents
On the Notion of "Law".- Hume on Sense Impressions and Objects.- Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science.- Neo-Kantian Origins of Modern Empiricism: on the Relation between Popper and the Vienna Circle.- Concerning some Philosophical Reasons for the Recourse to Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the Thought of Newton and Leibniz.- Kant on the Apriority of Causal Laws.- Whewell and the Scientists: Science and Philosophy of Science in 19th Century Britain.- Brouwer's Argument for the Unity of Scientific Theories.- The Role of Models in Boltzmann's Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1903-1906).- Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus.- The Modern History of Scientific Explanation.- From the Values of Scientific Philosophy to the Value Neutrality of the Philosophy of Science.- Helmholtz's Methodology of Sensory Science, the Zeichentheorie, and Physical Models of Hearing Mechanisms.- Physics without Pictures? The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach's (Unnoticed) Middle-Way.- Ludwig Boltzmann's Mathematical Argument for Atomism.- Hilbert's Program to Axiomatize Physics (in Analogy to Geometry) and its Impact on Schlick, Carnap and other Members of the Vienna Circle.- Hopes and Disappointments in Hilbert's Axiomatic "Foundations of Physics".- Mathematical Physics and Philosophy of Physics (with Special Consideration of J. von Neumann's Work).- How Metaphysical is "Deepening the Foundations"? Hahn and Frank on Hilbert's Axiomatic Method.- The EPR Experiment: a Prelude to Bohr's Reply to EPR.- The French Connection: Conventionalism and the Vienna Circle.- Carnap on Logic and Experience.- Affmities between Fleck and Neurath.- Critical Rationalism, Logical Positivism, and thePost-structuralist Conundrum: Reconsidering the Neurath-Popper Debate.- Philosophy of Biology around the Vienna Circle: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philipp Frank.- B.F. Skinner and P.W. Bridgman: the Frustration of a Wahlverwandtschaft.- Sociology of Science, Rule Following and Forms of Life.- The Philosopher without Qualities.- The Poverty of "Constructivist" History (and Policy Advice).- Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft. Otto Neurath und der erste Wiener Kreis, Wien-New York: Springer 2000..- 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)..- Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902-1945; Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna, Cambridge University Press 2000..- Bolzano's Philosophy and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics, Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam-Atlanta 2000..- "Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen." Alexius Meinong: Skizze seines Lebens, Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi 1999 (= Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie, Bd. 28)..- Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879-1909, Boston-Basel-Berlin: Birkhäuser 2000 (= Einstein Studies, vol. 8)..- Activities of the IVC.- Activities 2001.- Preview 2002.- Obituaries.- Marie Jahoda (1907-2001) (Christian Fleck).- Wesley C. Salmon (1925-2001) (Maria Carla Galavotti).- Paul Neurath (1911-2001) (Elisabeth Nemeth).- Index of Names.
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This volume includes in its special part recent contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view and of the highest topicality: the range of the topics is covering all fields in the philosophy of the science provided by authors from Europe, America and around the world focussing on ancient , modern and contemporary periods in the development of the science philosophy. It represents a distinguished selection of the "Third Biennial Meeting of the History of Philosophy of Science Working Group" in Vienna (HOPOS 2000), which was jointly organised by Vienna Circle Institute at the University of Vienna. The audience of this proceedings is the scientific community and students at graduate level as well as postdocs in this interdisciplinary field of research.
The general part contains as usual a report/document section with special highlights - contributions on American philosophers (by Gerald Holton) and on Wittgenstein (David Stern) - as well as review articles and review related new publications and short documentation of Vienna Circle Institute's activities.
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"This volume features a selection of papers from the third biennial meeting of the History of Philosophy of Science Working Group … . provides a fine sampling of recent studies in the history of philosophy of science. The papers are wide-ranging, engaging and informative. … the scholarship of this volume is good … . the volume contains a wealth of historical and philosophical arguments, and should be of interest to a wide audience of historians and philosophers of science … ." (Jonathan Y. Tsou, British Society for History of Science, 2005)
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From the reviews:
"This volume features a selection of papers from the third biennial meeting of the History of Philosophy of Science Working Group ... . provides a fine sampling of recent studies in the history of philosophy of science. The papers are wide-ranging, engaging and informative. ... the scholarship of this volume is good ... . the volume contains a wealth of historical and philosophical arguments, and should be of interest to a wide audience of historians and philosophers of science ... ." (Jonathan Y. Tsou, British Society for History of Science, 2005)
