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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.

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Author:   Peter Gärdenfors ,  Jan Wolenski ,  K. Kijania-Placek
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Volume:   316
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9789048161454

ISBN 10:   9048161452
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   08 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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.

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