Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1977

ISBN (Hardback): 9789048183517

ISBN (eBook): 9789401717809

Full citation:

Robert E. Butts, Jaakko Hintikka (eds), Historical and philosophical dimensions of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 1977

Historical and philosophical dimensions of logic, methodology and philosophy of science

Contents

The sources of modern methodology

Larry Laudan

3-19

Difficulties in the historiography of science

L. A. Markova

21-30

Logical, ontological and methodological aspects of scientific revolutions

M. Strauss

31-49

The origins of traditional grammar

Michael Frede

51-79

Galileo and the justification of experiments

William R. Shea

81-92

Leibnizian space-times and Leibnizian algebras

John Earman

93-112

Changing concepts of the a priori

Jürgen Mittelstrass

113-128

Competing and complementary patterns of explanation in social science

Mogens Blegvad

129-158

Subjectivity, objectivity and ontological commitment in the empirical sciences

Evandro Agazzi

159-171

Genealogy of science and theory of knowledge

Ivan Supek

173-183

Evolution of the concept of matter in science and philosophy

B. M. Kedrov

187-208

Material causality

209-241

Describing revolutionary scientific change

a formal approach

Joseph D. Sneed

245-268

Accidental ("non-substantial") theory change and theory dislodgment

Wolfgang Stegmüller

269-288

Theory-change as structure-change

comments on the sneed formalism

Thomas S. Kuhn

289-309

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