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Professor Howard Stein has made contributions on a wide range of topics in the history and philosophy of science, with an emphasis on physics. Stein has published papers on early physicists and philosophers such as Isaac Newton as well as papers on later science, especially relativity theory, quantum mechanics and the foundations of mathematics. This volume contains 13 essays exploring the work of Howard Stein, and topics include: Plato's conception of exact science; the structure of argumentation in Newton's Principia ; imagery in the work of Descartes and Newton; patterns of reasoning in Maxwell; Mach's conception of space, time and motion; Einstein's conception of geometry; conceptual and technical issues in the foundations of relativity theory; general issues in epistemology; and the structralist conception of mathematics. It also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Howard Stein's writings.

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David B. Malament, editor, is the UCI Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of California, Irvine. Before that he was David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. In 1992 Professor Malament was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written numerous articles on the mathematical and philosophical foundations of modern physics, particularly general relativity. Abner Shimony, author of the special introductory essay, is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Philosophy at Boston University. He is one of the world's most distinguished philosophers of physics, and is particularly well known for his many contributions to our understanding of the foundations of quantum mechanics. He is the author of the book Search for a Naturalistic World View (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

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