| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 4-5
|
|
Synthese library
|
|
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 4-5.
|
|
Synthese library.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
v. 1. The work and influence of Wernicke / Norman Geschwind -- The sympton complex of aphasia : a psychological study on an anatomical basis / Carl Wernicke -- Anatomy and the higher functions of brain / Norman Geschwind -- What is perception? / Robert Efron -- Knowledge, language and rationality. Statement of the problem / Henryk Skolimowski -- Comments : language and knowledge / Stephen Toulmin -- A parallelism between Wittgensteinian and Aristotelian ontologies / Boguslaw Wolniewicz -- Wolniewicz on Wittgenstein and Aristotle / Henry Ruf -- The computer as gadfly / F.J. Crosson -- The subject of cultural creation / Lucien Goldmann -- Dialectical materialism and the philosophy of praxis / Gajo Petrović -- Theory in history / Leon J. Goldstein -- Understanding and participant observation in cultural and social anthropology / Michael Martin -- Comments : Theory and practice of participant-observation / Judith B. Agassi -- Comments : Participant-observation and the collection of data / Sidney W. Mintz -- Patterns of use of science in ethics / Abraham Edel -- Comments / Ruth Anna Putnam -- Comments on Abraham Edel's 'Patterns of use of science in ethics' / John Ladd -- On empirical knowledge / Ruth Anna Putnam -- Comments on 'On empirical knowledge' / John Compton -- Causal Connection / William Ruddick -- Some comments to 'Causal connection' / M.M. Schuster -- Causality and the notion of necessity / Edward H. Madden -- Unity and diversity in science / Joseph Agassi -- On methods of refutation in metaphysics / J.O. Wisdom -- v. 2. Reply to Hilary Putnam's an examination of Grunbaum's philosophy of geometry / Adolf Grünbaum -- Causality requirements and the theory of relativity / Peter Havas -- Comments / John Stachel -- Matter, space and logic / Davic Finkelstein -- Is logic empirical? / Hilary Putnam -- On the philosophical significance of the correspondence argument / Aage Petersen -- On distinguishing types of measurement / Bernard R. Grunstra -- Hypotheses in Newton's Philosophy / I. Bernard Cohen -- The role of models in theoretical physics / R. Fürth -- The problem of truth / Mihailo Markovic -- Symmetry in Physics / P. Roman -- Verification or proof - an undecided issue? / Wolfgang Yourgrau -- Ernst Mach's biological theory of knowledge / Milič Čapek -- Theories and hypotheses in biology : theoretical entities and functional explanation / June Goodfield -- Comments on 'Theories and hypotheses in biology' / Ernest Mayr -- Comments : theoretical entities versus theories / Joseph Agassi -- The unity of physics / Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker -- Supplementary comments to Weizacker's paper / Francis J. Zucker. |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
|
|
Science -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
| Added Author |
Cohen, R. S. (Robert Sonné)
|
|
Wartofsky, Marx W.
|
|
