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This is the second of two volumes comprising the papers submitted for publication by the invited participants to the 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Florence, August 1995. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. The invited lectures published in the two volumes demonstrate much of what goes on in the fields of the Congress and give the state of the art of current research. The two volumes cover the traditional subdisciplines of mathematical logic and philosophical logic, as well as their interfaces with computer science, linguistics and philosophy. Philosophy of science is broadly represented, too, including general issues of natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. The papers in Volume One are concerned with logic, mathematical logic, the philosophy of logic and mathematics, and computer science. The papers published in the second volume are concerned with the general issues of methodology and ethics, and foundational issues of natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, linguistics, psychology and history of science.

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Author:   Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara ,  Kees Doets ,  Daniele Mundici ,  Johan van Benthem
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1997 ed.
Volume:   260
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780792343851

ISBN 10:   0792343859
Pages:   1064
Publication Date:   31 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Book
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Inaugural Address. Trends in the Foundation of Physics; E.G. Beltrametti. Section 6 : Methodology. The Empirical Character of Evidence; P. Achinstein. Partiality, Pursuit and Practice; S. French. Section 7: Probability, Induction and Decision Theory. Prior Inferences for Posterior Judgements; M. Goldstein. Game Theory, Rationality and Evolution; B. Skyrms. Section 8: History of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Anomalies and the Revision of Theory-Elements: Notes; U. Gahde. The Prehistory of Infinitary Logic: 1885-1955; G.H. Moore. Section 9: Ethics of Science and Technology. Engineers, Ethics and Sustainable Development; S. Beder. Are There Ethical Reasons for Being, or Not Being, a Scientific Realist; L. J. Cohen. Rights and Autonomy of Scientists: Cases in the People's Republic of China; D. Fan. On Ethics and Changing Expertise in Technology Assessment; I. Hronszky. Unpopular and Precautionary Science: Towards a New Ethics of Science; M. Kaiser. Testing Models of Natural Systems: Can it Be Done? N. Oreskes. Section 11: Philosophy of The Physical Sciences. Macroscopic Reality and the Dynamical Reduction Program; G.C. Ghirardi. Section 12: Philosophy of Biological Sciences. On Conflicts Between Genetic and Developmental Viewpoints - and Their Attempted Resolution in Molecular Biology; R.M. Burian. The 'Paramount Power of Selection': From Darwin to Kauffman; J. Gayon. Environmental Causes in Ontogeny and an Ethics of Attention; C.N. van der Weele. Section 13: Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences and AI. Mental Causation Without the Language of Thought; F. Jackson. What is the Problem of Mental Causation? J. Kim. Classical Constituents in Smolensky's ICS Architecture; B. McLaughlin. Section 14: Philosophy of Linguistics. Non-Constituent Coordination, Wrapping, and Multimodal Categorial Grammars; D.R. Dowty. Meaning Sensitivity and Grammatical Structure; T.D. Parsons. Section 15: Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Qualitative Consistency Masquerading as Quantitative Fit; R.M. Dawes. Why Does Evidence Matter So Little to Economic Theory; D.M. Hausman. Selection and Attraction in Cultural Evolution; D. Sperber. Symposium 2: Semantics and Semiotics. Semantics and Semiotics; J. Pelc. On Meaning, Logic and Verbal Language; U. Eco. Semantics and Semiotics; D. Follesdal. Symposium 3: Logic and Philosophy of Science in the Far East. Logic and Philosophy of Science in the Far East; R. Qiu. Logic in China; W. Lu. Recent Developments of Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy of Science in Japan; H. Sakamoto. Philosophy of Science in Korea, 1950-1995; S.-Y. Song. Philosophy of Science in Taiwan; C.H. Lin, D. Fu. Table of Contents Volume I.

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Professor Dr J.F.A.K. van Benthem has received the 1996 Spinoza Award, an annual award to honour outstanding scientific merit and to stimulate innovative future research. from the jury report: `Van Benthem has positioned logic as an interdisciplinary science par excellence ... It is through his work that logic has acquired a bridge-function between alpha and gamma sciences on the one side and beta sciences on the other ... Van Benthem is a stimulating and innovative researcher, which explains his great attraction to young researchers. Under his inspirational guidance 38 promovendi from the Netherlands and abroad have finished their theses. In view of Van Benthem's innovative powers and the high level of his research, a number of initiatives are to be expected from him that will further strengthen the Dutch position of logic, more especially so in connection with the formal study of natural language.'

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