In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. The invited speakers are the leading researchers and accordingly the book presents the current state of the intellectual discourse in the respective fields.

List of contents

Biology and the Possible.- On Genetic Information and Genetic Coding.- Architecture-Based Conceptions of Mind.- Linguistics as a System of Distinct Types of Ontology-cum-methodology.- Philosophy and the Social Sciences.- Assessing Game-Theoretic Explanations in the Social Sciences.- In Defense of Mental Representation.- Situated Knowledge and the Interplay of Value Judgments and Evidence in Scientific Inquiry.- The Ways in Which the Sciences Are and Are Not Value Free.- Scientific Controversy and the Public Face of Science.- Incommensurability and Empirical Comparability: The Case of the Phlogiston Theory.- A Century of Inference: 1837-1936.- Historical Ontology.- Carnap and Kuhn: a Belated Encounter.- Philosophy as Science: The Modernist Agenda of Philosophy of Science, 1900-1950.- Philosophy of Science, 1950-2000: The Parting of the Ways.- Patterns of Interaction Among Philosophers of Science and Cognitive Scientists.- The Concept of Information in Biology.- On the Future of Science.- Index of Names.- Table of contents Volume I.

Summary

This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. The invited speakers are the leading researchers and accordingly the book presents the current state of the intellectual discourse in the respective fields.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Gärdenfors (Editor), K Kijania-PLacek (Editor), K. Kijania-Placek (Editor), J. Wolenski (Editor), Ja Wolenski (Editor), Jan Wolenski (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9781402009303
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-0930-3
• No. of pages: 362
• Weight: 703 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 362 p.
• Series: Synthese Library; In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science; 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999; Synthese Library; In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science; 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999
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