In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

Volume Two of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999
2002
ISBN: 978-90-481-6145-4
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 316, 362 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 569 g

Reihe: Synthese Library

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gärdenfors, Peter

Kijania-Placek, K.

Wolenski, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.