Introduction

Michel Paty

1-56

Galileo and modern science

Pablo Rubén Mariconda

57-69

Newton and inverse problems

A.K.T. Assis

71-76

Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke and the mystery of the orbit

Penha M. Cardoso Dias, Stuchi

77-94

Sciences in Brazil

an overview from 1870–1920

Maria A. Mascarenhas Dantes, Silvia Figueirôa

95-105

Henri Becquerel and radioactivity

a critical revision

Roberto de Andrade Martins

107-117

Regeneration as a difficulty for the theory of natural selection

Morgan's changing attitudes, 1897–1932

Martins Pereira Martins

119-129

Jean Antoine Nollet's contributions to the institutionalization of physics during the 18th century

Cibelle Celestino Silva

131-140

Natural kinds as scientific models

141-150

On the nature of mathematical knowledge

Jairo J. Da Silva

151-160

The etiological approach to the concept of biological function

Karla Chediak

161-169

Human evolution

compatibilist approaches

Paulo C. Abrantes

171-183

Functional explanations in biology, ecology, and earth system science

contributions from philosophy of biology

Nei Freitas Nunes-Neto, Charbel Niño El-Hani

185-199

On Darwin, knowledge and mirroring

201-209

Freudian psychoanalysis as a model for overcoming the duality between natural and human sciences

Richard Theisen Simanke

211-221

The causal strength of scientific advances

Osvaldo Pessoa

223-231

Contextualizing the contexts of discovery and justification

how to do science studies in Brazil

Antonio A. Passos Videira

233-243

Echoes from the past

the persisting shadow of classical determinism in contemporary health sciences

Camargo de Camargo

245-256

The metaphysics of non-individuality

Décio Krause

257-267

Einstein, Gödel, and the mathematics of time

Francisco A. Doria

269-279

A contemporary view of population genetics in evolution

João C. , Cédric Gondro

281-290

Continuity and change

charting David Bohm's evolving ideas on quantum mechanics

Olival Freire

291-299

Quasi-truth and quantum mechanics

Costa Da Costa, Otávio Bueno

301-312

The qualitative analysis of differential equations and the development of dynamical systems theory

Tatiana Roque

313-324

The problem of adequacy of mathematics to physics

the relativity theory case

Samuel Simon

325-340