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Author:   J. Agassi ,  Robert S. Cohen
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Volume:   67
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9789027712639

ISBN 10:   9027712638
Pages:   518
Publication Date:   31 December 1981
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Some Remarks on Ontology.- A Kind of Collapse in a Simple Spacetime Model.- Poetic Imagination and Economy: Ernst Mach as Theorist of Science.- Some Thoughts on the Ideal of Exactness in Science and Philosophy.- On Hypotheses and Hypotheticism.- The Influence of Heraclitus on Modern Mathematics.- Free Intuitionistic Logic: A Formal Sketch.- Some Lessons in the Sun.- Interpretative Action Constructs.- Is Realistic History of Science Possible? A Hidden Inadequacy in the New History of Science.- Physics and the Doctrine of Reductionism.- Symbolism and Chance.- A Study in Protophysics.- Materialist Foundations of Critical Rationalism.- Analytic Philosophy as the Confrontation Between Wittgensteinians and Popper.- Distrust of Reason.- Teleology Redux.- Invariance and Covariance.- Molecular Phylogenetics: Biological Parsimony and Methodological Extravagance.- Letter to Mario: The Self and Its Mind.- The Young Hegel’s Quest for a Philosophy of Science, or Pitting Kepler against Newton.- Three Kinds of Mathematical Fictionalism.- The Disastrous Effects of Experiment upon the Early Development of Thermodynamics.- Individualism and Concept Formation in the Social Sciences.- A New Theory of Intension.- The Place of Mario Bunge.- Concerning Mario Bunge.- I. Curriculum Vitae.- II. List of Publications of Mario Bunge.- III. Selected Reviews of Books by Mario Bunge.- Index of Names.

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