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Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories, the second book in the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series, marks the centennial of the births of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Original essays by internationally distinguished scholars range from epistemology and philosophy of language to logic, semantics, the philosophy of physics and mathematics. In the realm of philosophy of physics it focuses upon such topics as space, time, and causality, which play fundamental roles in relativity theory and quantum mechanics.

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The essays in this volume stand as testaments to the continuing importance of logical empiricism and take their place in a burgeoning literature applying and interpreting themes from logical empiricism. --British Journal for the Philosophy of Science The essays in this volume stand as testaments to the continuing importance of logical empiricism and take their place in a burgeoning literature applying and interpreting themes from logical empiricism. --British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

The essays in this volume stand as testaments to the continuing importance of logical empiricism and take their place in a burgeoning literature applying and interpreting themes from logical empiricism. --British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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Wesley C. Salmon (1925–2001) was University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, past president of the Philosophy of Science Association, and the author of numerous books, including Four Decades of Scientific Explanation; Peter Machamer is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is coeditor, with Gereon Wolters, of Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics and Science, Values, and Objectivity,

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