Historical and philosophical aspects of the unity of physics

scientific progress by unification

E. Schmutzer

1-11

The emergence of theoretical physics in the second half of the nineteenth century

Fabio Bevilacqua

13-36

Physics and human thought

Z. Neubauer

37-44

Physics as a cultural science

Hans G. Dosch

45-53

Time flow

G. Süssmann

55-70

Time's arrow

C. H. Holland

71-83

Between pure and applied mathematics

A. Pelczar

85-92

Concepts of causality in pre-socratic philosophy

D. Z. Andriopoulos

93-99

The rationality of reductionism

Erhard Scheibe

101-109

The risk of heuristics

W. A. Wagenaar

111-123

Irreversibility and self-organization

Hermann Haken

125-137

Structural basis of serine protease action

the fourth dimension

L. Graf

139-148

Can the concept of evolution tell us who we are?

Robert Zwilling

149-159

Changes of paradigms in biology and medicine

A. Koj

161-169

The relationship between medicine and natural sciences during the twentieth century

aspects of the theory of science

U. Zwiener

171-176

The artificial intelligence approach to modelling medical reasoning

M. Stefanelli, M. Ramoni

177-186

The role of prediction in modern science

the example of psychiatry

C. Höschl

187-191

From Brunelleschi to Leonardo

P. Galluzzi

193-202

Antonio Scarpa, Luigi Porta, Camillo Golgi

the development of medical thought at Pavia university

G. Armocida, A. Calligaro

203-215

The social uses of past science

celebrating Volta in fascist Italy

G. Pancaldi

217-224